Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist

Overview

Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist — Program Leadership

Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist / Heart Failure Program Director

Lead and shape a comprehensive community heart failure program with a high-volume shock team, mechanical circulatory support (MCS/ECMO), and collaborative pathways with regional academic transplant centers.

Legacy Medical Group (LMG), a physician-led health system in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking BC/BE Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist to lead and expand our community-based Advanced Heart Failure Program. This physician will spearhead programmatic development, clinical operations, and cardiogenic shock care across our multi-hospital network, working collaboratively with interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, critical care, and regional academic partners.

Responsibilities

Role Overview & Program Leadership

• Programmatic Leadership: Serve as the clinical and operational leader for heart failure care across the system, establishing standardized GDMT protocols, transition-of-care pathways, and outpatient GDMT optimization clinics.
• Cardiogenic Shock & Critical Care: Provide leadership for an active, multidisciplinary 24/7 Shock Team, utilizing standardized invasive hemodynamic assessment and rapid escalation protocols.
• Mechanical Circulatory Support & ECMO: Direct clinical management of temporary and durable MCS, including percutaneous ventricular assist devices (Impella CP/5.5, ProtekDuo, intra-aortic balloon pumps), veno-arterial (VA) ECMO, and acute-on-chronic decompensated heart failure.
• Device Therapy & Remote Monitoring: Oversee ambulatory hemodynamic monitoring (CardioMEMS), Barostim and Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM).
• Academic Transplant Center Collaboration: Foster direct clinical relationships and bridge-to-transplant/bridge-to-durable LVAD referral algorithms with local transplant programs, with potential opportunities for shared clinical conferences, joint committees, and cross-institutional collaboration.

Clinical Model & Resources

• Dedicated Inpatient & Outpatient Structure: Protected time divided between advanced heart failure inpatient consults/ICU rounds and dedicated outpatient heart failure clinic, supported by advanced practice providers (APPs), dedicated nurse navigators, and clinical pharmacy specialists.
• Multidisciplinary Shock Platform: Seamless co-management alongside critical care intensivists, experienced interventionalists (1,350+ PCIs system-wide), and cardiothoracic surgeons.
• Advanced Imaging & Diagnostics: Full access to high-volume echocardiography, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, and comprehensive invasive hemodynamic catheterization.

Qualifications

• Education: MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Training: Completed ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, and an accredited Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship.
• Board Certification: Board Certified/Eligible in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology.
• Clinical Expertise: Documented procedural competence in right heart catheterization, endomyocardial biopsy (preferred), and temporary MCS/ECMO management.

Licensure

• Licensure: Unrestricted Oregon medical license (or eligible to obtain) and valid ACLS certification.
• Visa Status: Unable to sponsor H-1B or J-1 visa waivers at this time.

Our Commitment to Health and Equal Opportunity

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Patients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

If you are passionate about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply—even if you don't meet every qualification listed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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