Pediatrics Physician

Ochsner Children' Hospital is seeking an experienced, board-certified, Pediatric Palliative Care Physician in New Orleans, Louisiana. The successful candidate will join an established pediatric palliative care program within Ochsner Health's regional health system, the largest not-for-profit academic health system in the Gulf South.

Key responsibilities of this position include :

Clinical Care

Provide inpatient and outpatient palliative care services for children.

Partner with medical, surgical, and mental health colleagues to serve children in multidisciplinary programs, including solid organ and stem cell transplantation, oncology, and cardiovascular diseases.

Teaching and Research

Teach medical students, residents, and allied health students.

Clinical research opportunities abound for qualified candidates.

Academic appointment commensurate with experience.

Ochsner Children's, comprised of more than 85 primary care pediatricians who are part of our group of over 290 pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists in 27 locations across Louisiana and Mississippi is the region's leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, advanced GI and Hepatology, Hematology-Oncology and AYA Oncology, and a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group including Cleft Palate / Cranio-Facial Surgery, advanced spine surgery and the Gulf South's only comprehensive, multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.

Ochsner Children's Hospital includes a 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, a NAEC-accredited level IV, 4 bed Pediatric EMU and a 44-bed Pediatric Acute Care unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, supported by a 24-7 pediatric and neonatal transport team utilizing rotary and fixed wing aircraft, as well as ground transport. We recently began construction on a new 5-story Children's Hospital on our main campus in New Orleans, with expected opening at the start of 2028.

Ochsner Children's Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and is also responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland. Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced an agreement to establish a joint allopathic College of Medicine, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, which is in the LCME accreditation process currently. Our faculty publishes hundreds of research papers annually and lead numerous multi-center studies and trials.

Ochsner Children's is a leader in healthcare innovation. Physician inbox messages are "co-piloted" with AI responses that reduce physician time responding to patient messages and Ochsner Children's is introducing "Deep Scribe" ambient listening technology in our clinics, where the physician note is written in real time by AI during the patient encounter.

Ochsner Children's is proud to have ranked in multiple subspecialties in US News and World Report's top 50 Children's Hospitals in the US for 8 years in a row. Ranked Children's Hospital in Louisiana!

If you would like more information about our program or would like to discuss this position with Dr. William "Billy" Lennarz, System Medical Director of Pediatrics , and Dr. Ryan Himes, System Associate Chair of Pediatrics , please contact Courtney Lawhun, Physician Recruiter, at