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Canton, Georgia

Infectious Disease Physician - Canton, GA - Northside Hospital

Infectious DiseaseIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.

Responsibilities

Northside Hospital Cherokee is seeking a fellowship-trained, board-certified Infectious Disease Physician to join a growing and collaborative clinical team in Metro Atlanta. This position offers a balanced inpatient consultative and outpatient clinic schedule within a nationally recognized, debt-free health system known for clinical excellence and physician support.

Position Highlights

  • Full-time Infectious Disease physician opportunity
  • Inpatient consultative services and outpatient clinic schedule
  • Collaborative, multidisciplinary care environment
  • Supportive hospital leadership and system resources

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive infectious disease consultation for hospitalized patients
  • Manage and treat patients in an outpatient infectious disease clinic setting
  • Collaborate with medical and surgical specialists across the hospital
  • Participate in infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and quality initiatives
  • Maintain high standards of clinical excellence and patient-centered care
  • Comfortable building outpatient clinic volume

Qualifications

  • MD or DO from an accredited medical school
  • Completion of an ACGME-accredited Infectious Disease fellowship
  • Board Certified in Infectious Disease
  • Eligible for or currently licensed to practice medicine in the State of Georgia
  • Strong communication skills and a team-oriented approach

Northside Physician Benefits

  • Northside Hospital offers a competitive and comprehensive physician benefits package designed to support long-term career satisfaction and work-life balance, including:
  • Competitive compensation with potential performance-based incentives
  • Starting bonus and relocation assistance
  • Paid malpractice insurance
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • 403(b) retirement plan with employer match plus a fully funded pension plan
  • CME allowance
  • Cell phone stipend
  • Employee wellness resources and additional system-wide benefits

Why Northside

Northside Hospital is consistently recognized for high-quality patient outcomes, innovation, and a collaborative clinical culture. Our health system includes 5 hospitals and over 300 outpatient centers, serving more than 5 million patients annually.

Please contact Morgan.Dudkowski@northside.com for more information.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • MD or DO from an accredited medical school
  • Completion of an ACGME-accredited Infectious Disease fellowship
  • Board Certified in Infectious Disease
  • Eligible for or currently licensed to practice medicine in the State of Georgia
  • Strong communication skills and a team-oriented approach

Work Hours

Varies

Weekend Requirements:

Yes

On-Call Requirements:

Yes

Qualifications

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

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Inpatient careOutpatient clinic managementMultidisciplinary collaboration

Infectious Disease — Physician Career Context

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Infectious Disease Jobs

14 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution14 jobs · 2 employers

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<$315k
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$315k-330k
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12
$350k

Annual compensation range

#1

Infectious Disease Physician - Charleston, SC

Vohra Physicians · Charleston, South Carolina

$200k-$350k
#2

Infectious Disease Physician - Pittsburgh, PA

Vohra Physicians · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

$200k-$350k
#3

Infectious Disease Physician - Lebanon, VA

$200k-$350k
#4

Infectious Disease Physician - Abingdon, VA

$200k-$350k
+ 12 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.6this job 1.5
Below most Infectious Disease listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 164 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Canton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$421k
Typical market rent
$1,986/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Northside Hospital

Hospitals and Health Care
Atlanta, GA
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
Starting bonus
Relocation assistance
Paid malpractice insurance
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
403(b) retirement plan with employer match
Fully funded pension plan