The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the Yale School of Medicine seeks an outstanding fellowship-trained pediatric ophthalmologist to serve as a member of our faculty. Applicants at all levels will be consider for appointment to the clinical faculty, and leadership opportunities as division chief will be considered for candidates with appropriate qualifications and experience.
All candidates must be eligible for appointment as ladder faculty as a Professor, Associate Professor or Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. They will be responsible for providing medical and surgical care in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus within a collaborative academic environment. The department has a long-standing tradition of excellence in clinical care and research in multiple subspecialty areas of ophthalmology. Our faculty provides clinical services for patients at Yale Medicine Ophthalmology and the West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital. We have a strong and competitive residency program, which consists of 20 residents, along with two fellowship programs in retina and glaucoma.
The Department is affiliated with the Yale New Haven Health System, one of the largest academic medical centers along the Eastern United States, including Yale-New Haven Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital and Westerly Hospital. The appointed faculty member will be delivering clinical care as part of Yale Medicine, which is the largest multispecialty practice (comprising over 1400 physicians) along the east coast of the United States. The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science has outpatient offices in New Haven, Guilford, Norwalk, Madison, Waterford, Greenwich, and Stratford. The Department has doubled our clinical footprint over the last five years, adding multiple new clinical and research faculty members to coincide with this geographic expansion statewide in Connecticut.
