Job Description:

When you join us, you’ll become part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to helping people live the healthiest lives possible. Salt Lake City offers a rare blend of mountain access and metropolitan sophistication, with nine renowned ski resorts within an hour and five national parks within a day’s drive. The city offers a distinctive lifestyle defined by outdoor recreation, cultural vitality, and a strong academic presence.

About this role:

As an Abdominal Wall Reconstruction / Hernia Surgeon, you will work with a team of healthcare professionals committed to providing quality care and an excellent patient experience. In this role, you will focus your practice on complex hernia care and abdominal wall reconstruction while working alongside an established abdominal wall reconstruction expert in a growing subspecialty service. You will collaborate within a multidisciplinary program supported by integrated bariatric and metabolic care, contribute to ongoing program development, and participate in teaching opportunities with students and residents.

• You’ll practice at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
• The schedule includes a mix of clinic and operating room time (typically 2 days clinic and 2 days OR).
• Call is shared across a five-surgeon rotation and currently includes 24-hour Saturday call along with shared night and Sunday coverage, with a longer-term transition toward a more subspecialty-focused model.
• Opportunity to help build and grow a specialized abdominal wall reconstruction program.

How we'll support you:

We care about your well-being, which is why we provide our caregivers with a generous benefits package. In addition, we offer paid time off, license reimbursement, malpractice insurance coverage, and an annual CME allowance to support your continuous growth and development. Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package.

What you’ll bring:

• MD or DO degree from a fully accredited medical or osteopathic school of medicine
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in General Surgery
• Abdominal Wall Reconstruction fellowship or strong equivalent experience with demonstrable case volume (case logs if no fellowship)
• Active, unobstructed Utah medical license, or the ability to obtain one
• BLS, ACLS certification and DEA
• Ability to successfully complete Intermountain Health’s credentialing process

About us:

Intermountain Health is a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 400 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across six states in the Mountain West. 

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.  Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values.

Intermountain Health was recently recognized by the American Medical Association’s Joy in Medicine award for our commitment to physician wellbeing. We also received the Lorna Breen Wellbeing First Champion award.

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes

Life in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains and is within an hour’s drive of nine world-renowned ski resorts and within a day’s drive of five national parks.  Along with these recreational attractions, there are many cultural and sporting events.  There are performances by the Utah Symphony, Ballet West and Pioneer Theater Company as well as a renovated theater that offers Broadway plays. The Sundance Film Festival and the Park City Art Festival are nationally recognized events held in nearby communities.  The NBA’s Jazz, ECHL Utah Grizzlies hockey, the Salt Lake Bees, a triple-A baseball team, and Real Salt Lake City, a major league soccer team, all represent Salt Lake City. The University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City.

Intermountain LDS Hospital is a Level IV trauma center and full-service hospital with a complete range of wellness, diagnostic, and treatment services for our community. For more than 115 years, LDS Hospital has provided high-quality clinical care, technological progress, exceptional efficiency and extraordinary personal service. This 262-bed facility is located just minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, and is integrated with Intermountain’s Life Flight air ambulance and TeleHealth Hospital. The hospital also services southern Davis County and Tooele County out to the Utah / Nevada state line.

Location:

Intermountain Health LDS Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$7.25 - $999.99

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

At Intermountain Health, we use the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore to improve your job application experience. HiredScore helps match your skills and experiences to the best jobs for you. While HiredScore assists in reviewing applications, all final decisions are made by Intermountain personnel to ensure fairness. We protect your privacy and follow strict data protection rules. Your information is safe and used only for recruitment. Thank you for considering a career with us and experiencing our AI-enhanced recruitment process.

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