Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician
Company: Ochsner Health
Location: New Orleans
Posted on: November 1, 2025
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Job Description:
Ochsner Children’s Hospital is seeking a physician who is Board
Certified or Board Eligible in Pediatric Infectious Disease to join
the expanding practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. An interest in
Antimicrobial Stewardship is desirable. The Infectious Disease
Practice at Ochsner Children’s Hospital provides inpatient and
outpatient evaluation and management of children with suspected or
proven infectious diseases. 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. 1 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 courtney.lawhun@ochsner.org .
Keywords: Ochsner Health, New Orleans , Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician, Healthcare , New Orleans, Louisiana
