General Pediatrician specializing in Eating Disorders

Responsibilities

We are seeking a full-time General Pediatrician with expertise in treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder and related disorders.  Appointment will be a combined 1.0 FTE with Norton Children’s Medical Group, affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology. 

Primary responsibilities include evaluating and treating children/adolescents with eating disorders and their families primarily in an outpatient medical setting; assisting in further developing programs; implementing empirically-based treatment modalities such as CBT, DBT, FBT, and ACT; and serving as a consultant to Norton Healthcare medical staff. This position offers the opportunity to participate in program development related to possible services available to treat eating disorders (e.g., IOP).  The psychologist will also have the opportunity to be involved with training psychology residents in our APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology, as well as educating child psychiatry residents, psychiatry residents and medical students. While the position is primarily clinical in focus, the faculty member will have opportunities for research and clinical innovation. The faculty appointment for this position is at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the Department of Pediatrics. 

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.  Interested applicants should send their curriculum vitae, letter of interest, three references and (p)reprints to Jennifer Le, MD, Chief, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 200 East Chestnut Street, Louisville, KY 40202. If applying by e-mail send to [email protected].

About Norton Children’s Medical Group:

Norton Children’s Medical Group, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, is the pediatric provider division of Norton Medical Group. Norton Children’s Medical Group employs more than 400 medical providers who work in over 170 locations in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. To support the community’s need for expanded care, Norton Children’s Medical Group encompasses all pediatric care, including inpatient, outpatient, primary and specialty care. Patients have access to multidisciplinary resources through Norton Medical Group’s extensive network of primary and specialty care practices, as well as Norton Children’s Hospital, Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Norton Children’s Medical Center and the Novak Center for Children’s Health. (More information is available at NortonChildrens.com.)

Norton Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/ Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. 

Qualifications

Applicants must have:

• Pediatric or child clinical psychologist with training and experience in pediatric eating disorders services
• Doctorate from an American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited graduate program in clinical, counseling, or school psychology
• APA-accredited internship 
• Postdoctoral fellowship, with a focus on treating youth with eating disorders or comparable clinical expertise
• Kentucky psychologist license or license eligible
• Eligible for Health Service Provider (HSP) designation