Pediatric Oncologist with Focus on Solid Tumors – Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware

Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware is seeking a solid tumor oncologist with a focus on neuroblastoma and wilms tumor to join the Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders.

The Moseley Foundation Institute currently includes fourteen physicians, eleven nurse practitioners and 3 Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellows. Physicians within the Division provide cross-coverage for hematology, oncology, transplant and cellular therapy patients. Our specialty programs include a comprehensive sickle-cell clinic funded by a NIGMS Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant, a federally funded Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment Center, a Transplant and Cellular Therapies program including participation in the STAR alliance for sickle cell disease, Neuro-oncology program, adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology program and a long-term survivorship program. We are very active participants in Children’s Oncology Group (COG) studies and funded as an NCI-Community Oncology Research Program. This is an exciting opportunity to join a program that is rapidly growing and expanding across all missions – clinical, research and education.

The successful candidate will be Board Certified in Pediatrics, Board Certified/Eligible in Pediatric Hematology Oncology, and be eligible for unrestricted Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Medical and DEA Licenses.

Step into a busy practice in one of the Northeast’s most desirable communities! Located in the Northeast corridor, Wilmington provides limitless cultural and professional opportunities given its easy access and proximity to major metropolitan areas while being nestled in the bucolic Brandywine Valley. As the center of commerce and culture in Delaware, Wilmington combines the amenities and excitement of big-city living with the peace and charm of a small town.

Nemours Children’s Health (NCH) has grown to become one of the nation’s largest integrated pediatric health systems, providing hospital and clinic-based specialty care, primary care, prevention and health information services and research and medical education programs aimed at improving the lives of children and families. While this position is based in Delaware, treating patients throughout the Delaware Valley; collaborative opportunities exist across the enterprise, including locations in Florida.

NCH is ranked as one of the country’s Best Children’s Hospitals and the Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is ranked as one of the country’s Top Pediatric Cancer Centers as per US News & World Report. This excellence is mostly accredited to their excellent rankings in five-year cancer survival, post bone marrow transplant survival, advanced clinical services and treatment and exceptional nursing and clinical support services. More than just a new name, the newly formed Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders will drive new opportunity for pediatric cancer and blood disorder care at NCH. The foundation has pledged a $78 million donation in the support of new programs that improve ways to treat pediatric cancer and blood disorders.