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New Orleans, Louisiana

Physician - Academic Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist

CardiologyFull-Time

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Job Description

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The Department of Cardiology at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana is seeking a cardiologist who is BC/BE in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation to join our team.

J1 visa opportunities available through FLEX Waiver.

We have a group of 6 staff physicians, 5 mid-level providers, and a 7th year advanced heart failure fellowship position. The Ochsner Advanced Heart Failure team currently performs approximately 35 LVAD implantations and 25-30 heart transplants per year.

The candidate would join a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate expertise in all aspects of Advanced Heart Failure, including inpatient, outpatient, and outreach services. Additionally, we have a well formed amyloidosis clinic, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy clinic.

The Ochsner Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic which is PHA certified and quite robust and well-established is also a program the candidate would be able to participate in as it is run by the Advanced Heart Failure Team.

As a health system with several Ochsner owned and Ochsner-affiliated medical centers we have established a cardiogenic shock initiative that is multidisciplinary in approach and growing throughout the state and the Gulf South region.

We hope to find someone that is comfortable and interested in working in the academic environment, with a strong cardiology fellowship that is integral to our inpatient team dynamic.

The Department of Cardiology at OMC includes 45 cardiologists working at the academic medical center in New Orleans as part of our nationally recognized cardiology group of 80 cardiologists practicing at nine locations across southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi as a member of the Ochsner Health’s John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute. Additionally, the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute is a regional leader with heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and dual organ transplantation.

CVs will be reviewed by Sammy Khatib, M.D. and Selim Krim, M.D.

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Key Responsibilities

The physician will provide expert care in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation within a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include managing inpatient, outpatient, and outreach services, as well as participating in specialized clinics like amyloidosis and pulmonary hypertension.

Requirements

Candidates must be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. The role requires a commitment to working in an academic environment and collaborating with a fellowship program.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

LVAD implantationAmyloidosis treatmentHypertrophic cardiomyopathy treatmentPulmonary Hypertension managementCardiogenic shock managementInpatient careOutpatient careAcademic medicineClinical research

Cardiology — Physician Career Context

Of the 36 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 69% have no call, 25% require no weekends.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 20% of Cardiology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 531 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in New Orleans

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$209k
Typical market rent
$1,637/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.6
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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