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Beth Israel Lahey Health
Peabody, Massachusetts

Orthopaedic Surgeon- Trauma and Sports Medicine

Orthopedic SurgeryIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$425k-$500k

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description

  • Orthopedic Surgery – Trauma and Sports Medicine
  • Lahey Clinic
  • Burlington

Position Summary

Join Lahey Clinic, a key member of Beth Israel Lahey Health, as a board-certified or board-eligible Orthopedic Surgeon dual-focused or fellowship-trained in Orthopedic Trauma and Sports Medicine.

This role combines high-complexity acute orthopedic trauma coverage at a Level I Trauma Center with an elective sports medicine clinical and surgical practice. The ideal candidate will bring surgical expertise, a collaborative mindset, and a commitment to delivering high quality, patient-centered care within an academic medical center environment.

Key Responsibilities

Surgical & Clinical Care: Provide comprehensive surgical and non-surgical care for acute orthopedic trauma, complex fractures, joint injuries, soft tissue reconstruction, and sports-related injuries.

Trauma Call Coverage: Participate in the Level I Orthopedic Trauma call rotation, providing rapid evaluation, resuscitation, and operative management for polytrauma and urgent musculoskeletal conditions.

Outpatient Clinic: Maintain a robust outpatient practice for sports medicine and post-trauma follow-up care across designated LHMC ambulatory sites.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Partner closely with emergency medicine providers, general trauma surgery, radiology, physical therapy, and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) to optimize clinical pathways.

Quality & Education: Contribute to clinical quality initiatives, departmental research, and the clinical training of surgical residents, fellows, and advanced practice clinicians.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education: MD or DO from an accredited medical school.

Training: Completion of an accredited Orthopedic Surgery Residency program. Fellowship training in Orthopedic Trauma, Sports Medicine, or dual fellowship completion is strongly preferred.

Board Certification: Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS).

Licensure

Unrestricted Massachusetts Medical License and Federal/State DEA certification (or eligible prior to start date).

Skills

Demonstrated surgical excellence in both complex fracture management and advanced arthroscopic/sports medicine procedures. Strong interpersonal and team communication skills required.

Lahey Clinic, a 337-bed tertiary care facility, outpatient clinic and Level I trauma center with a recently completed state of the art emergency department. We are a physician-led, multi-disciplinary group practice of more than 500 physicians. Located just north of Boston, the area provides excellent school systems, abundant cultural activities in a world-class city and convenient access to the mountains and seacoast throughout New England.

Diversity is a core value at Beth Israel Lahey Health. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for our staff. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.

Pay Range

$425,000.00 USD - $500,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time.

Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree and have completed an accredited Orthopedic Surgery residency program. Board certification or eligibility by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and an unrestricted Massachusetts medical license are required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Arthroscopic proceduresClinical researchAcute injury managementJoint injury treatment

Orthopedic Surgery — Physician Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$463k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $437k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution13 jobs · 8 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks13 jobs · 8 employers

CME allowance
85%
401k / retirement match
85%
Sign-on bonus
38%
Relocation assistance
31%
Loan repayment
15%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 50% of Orthopedic Surgery listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 369 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Peabody

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$701k≈ 1.7× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,857/mo≈ 8% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.3
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Beth Israel Lahey Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Newburyport, MA
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Performance-based incentive compensation
Productivity and quality bonuses