The VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS) in Portland OR is actively recruiting to fill Board Certified Staff Radiology/Imaging Physician (BE considered) to help care for our Veterans – American’s Heroes. Selected candidate will be considered for a faculty appointment at Oregon Health Sciences University and  be involved with education & teaching of Radiology residents in our residency program plus medical students, medicine residents and other providers. The VA Portland Healthcare System (VAPORHCS), located in Portland, OR, is part of VA Pacific Northwest Network (VISN20), comprised of eight health care system and 46 community clinics serving 1 million veterans in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon & Washington.

You are invited to consider joining the team of the  Portland VA Medical Center and our academic affiliate the  Oregon Health Sciences University  , providing care for the world’s best patients while providing training and mentorship for fellows, residents, and students.  You should be board certified/eligible in Radiology/Imaging and a U.S. citizen with current U.S. licensure (any state) with no history of revocations or suspension.  Permanent Residents may be considered if no U.S. citizen is selected. 

VAPORHCS is a major teaching site and research site closely affiliated with OHSU . VAPORHCS hosts about 2,000 health professional learners annually and ranks in the top 10 nationwide among VAs in research grant support, with over 170 investigators in basic science, clinical, and health services research and over 1000 active protocols. 

Radiology provides patient centered, customer focused state of the art imaging services for the Portland VA Health Care System, a tertiary care medical center with campuses in Portland OR and subsidiaries in Vancouver, WA., as well as 9 Outpatient care clinics across Central and NW Oregon. VAPORHCS provides a full continuum of inpatient, outpatient, long-term, and emergent care, serving over 100K veterans per year. Recognized as a Magnet Facility, VAPORHCS is a 1A complex facility with tertiary care referrals and is also a major liver and renal transplant center and supports imaging for oncology diagnosis and treatment to include a high volume of Y-90 embolization procedures in interventional radiology.  Portland supports a VA Shark Tank winning Centralized Lung Cancer Screening Program which is one of the top lung cancer screening programs across the nation.  VAPORHCS is a major teaching hospital with a strong affiliation to Oregon Health Sciences University with extensive research and Graduate Medical Education, including medical students, residents, and fellows with over $37M in grant funding. Imaging provides a whole spectrum of services: CT, MRI, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine with PET/SPECT CT, conventional X-rays, special procedures, Interventional radiology, and neuroradiology.

Imaging services are located on the Main Portland Campus as well as the CBOCs in Hillsboro, Salem and an outpatient imaging center in Vancouver, WA.  A new larger 14,000 sq foot outpatient imaging center is currently under construction in Vancouver and is slated to go operational in calendar year 2025.

The ideal candidate must be strongly motivated to promote continuing research activities and education for staff, inter-professional training, and be committed to professional enrichment, merit promotion, equal employment opportunity, and positive labor relations. An OHSU academic appointment will be commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 0800-1630.

• Rotating call
• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in the U.S.
• Board Certification in Radiology

Community Information

Portland, Oregon is a great city with distinct and interesting neighborhoods, full of good restaurants and bars, coffee shops on every corner, locally made beer pubs, and hundreds of food carts where you can try out food from around the world. Portlanders are friendly and helpful. Even though Portland has 2.2 million people living in it--and has all the benefits and amenities of a big city--it has a friendly, small-town feel. Portland has one of the best bus and city-train systems in America. Portland is also the most bicycle friendly city in America. You do not need a car to enjoy living in and exploring Portland! Portland is often called the "beer-capital of the world", with more varieties and brands of beer made in local breweries than anywhere else--and with over a dozen of beer festivals held in the city every year! Oregon is also becoming more known for wine, with over a hundred wineries in and near Portland, where you can sample all kinds of wine--pinot noir and pinot gris wines are an Oregon specialty. Oregon is a place of natural beauty & exciting adventures. It is the state with the most diverse climate in all the United States. Oregon has cool rainforests and hot deserts, ocean beaches and snow-covered mountains. View more details at Portland - Official City Guide & City of Portland

Benefits and Features

The position offers a competitive salary based on education, training and experience and includes a full benefit package, student debt repayment, an annual CME stipend all designed to support a high-quality professional practice and favorable work-life-family balance. VA does this by offering: Paid Time Off in the form of 26 Days paid annual leave, 13 Days paid sick leave per year, 11 Federal holidays with pay, and 5-Day paid absence to attend approved CME courses. Insurance to include Health-Dental-Vision care insurance programs to choose from with premiums partially paid by VA; Flexible Spending Accounts; Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government; and Long-term care insurance available as an option. Federal Retirement Plan thru the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) - A three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits; 2) FERS-FRAE basic benefits (pension); and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan, with up to five percent government matching contributions.  

To Explore This Physician Opportunity Further

Please forward copy of your Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae to Henry "Hank" Laguatan, VA National Healthcare Recruitment Consultant @ Henry.Laguatan@va.gov or call (206) 459-7927.

About The VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS)

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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