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Physician - Breast Oncologist

**Job Description**

**Location:** Chicago, IL

**Hospital:** RUSH University Medical Center

**Department:** Internal Medicine - Hematology, Oncology and Cell Therapy

**Work Type:** Full Time

**Work Schedule:** 8 Hr

**Breast Oncologist – Clinical Faculty**

**RUSH University Medical Center**

**Chicago, IL**

**Rush University Medical Center,** a nationally recognized clinical and academic institution, and the teaching hospital for Rush Medical and Nursing Colleges, located in downtown Chicago, invites applications for the position of **Breast Oncologist.**

The **Division of Hematology, Oncology and Cell Therapy** in the Department of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center is recruiting an **Oncologist or** a **Hematologist/Oncologist** to join its **breast** medical oncology faculty at the assistant, associate, or professor level. The successful candidate will be board certified in medical oncology or hematology/oncology and has demonstrated interest and academic productivity in a field of breast oncology. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a growing multi-disciplinary breast oncology program, participate in our large portfolio of clinical trials, and develop investigator-initiated trials. The predominant criteria include: a major commitment to research and scholarly activity that advances the field of medicine, teaching, excellence in clinical care, and institutional service appropriate to the programmatic need the individual is expected to fulfill.

Candidates will have the opportunity to work with multidisciplinary teams, including breast surgery, radiation oncology and breast imaging. Over the past decade, the RUSH breast imaging team has differentiated itself as a pacesetter in the Chicago region. The Regenstein Breast Imaging Center’s personalized breast cancer screening program is making a national imprint on the field in this area. Our multidisciplinary research team is utilizing data from the personalized breast cancer screening program to publish important findings that are informing breast imaging practice and research far beyond RUSH.

Our new, state-of-the-art Cancer Center facility in Chicago serves as a hub for services throughout our health system. Our core programs are supported by multi-disciplinary teams from medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, radiology, research and bioinformatics, clinical operations, and dedicated clinical and support staff, including patient navigators. This structure allows specialists to more easily consult and see patients based on tumor type or molecular and genomic signatures, combining our outstanding multidisciplinary approach with a data infrastructure that supports this patient-centered care. This integration enables us to make a greater commitment to research, dramatically scaling the effectiveness of clinical trials, and enabling translational research that moves bench to bedside, and bedside to bench.

**Rush University System for Health (RUSH)** is an academic health system whose mission is to improve the health of the individuals and the diverse communities it serves through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

RUSH includes RUSH University Medical Center, RUSH University, RUSH Copley Medical Center and RUSH Oak Park Hospital, as well as numerous outpatient care facilities. RUSH University, with more than 2,500 students, is a health sciences university that comprises RUSH Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences and the Graduate College.

RUSH is an elite medical community recognized yearly for excellence in patient care, medical discovery and clinical expertise. We’re proud to have received Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study, ranking second among 99 academic medical centers across the country. All three RUSH hospitals have earned the LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader designation in the Healthcare Equality Index. Our physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses and staff are the heartbeat of our health system’s ongoing success. We know how important it is to recruit and retain exceptional staff and faculty to execute our mission. .

Join RUSH and become part of one of the nation’s best healthcare systems.

**Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.**

**Position** Physician - Breast Oncologist

**Location** US:IL:Chicago

**Req ID** 10250


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