Assistant, Associate or Professor of Pediatrics

The Assistant Professor of Pediatrics will serve as a member of the UK Hospital Pediatrics Division, Department of Pediatrics. The primary role of this faculty member will be to provide inpatient care for hospitalized children in the Medical Center at Bowling Green. In addition, the faculty member will provide consultative services to patients in the Emergency Department in the Medical Center at Bowling Green.

While this is an academic position, your role (among other benefits) would be more aligned with that of a hospital-employed provider. The Assistant Professor of Pediatrics will serve as a member of the UK Hospital Pediatrics Division, Department of Pediatrics. The primary role of this faculty member will be to provide inpatient care for hospitalized children in the Medical Center at Bowling Green. In addition, the faculty member will provide consultative services to patients in the Emergency Department in the Medical Center at Bowling Green. No delivery requirements. We do have residency programs as well as a med school down there so there would likely be teaching opportunities if you so wished. For those not familiar,  Bowling Green is a short distance away (45 mins) from Nashville, TN and a D1 college town full of life.

Seeking both new and experienced providers to lead the program. If interested, please contact Hannah Kaltenbach with CV at hmka223@uky.edu

About the Community & Practice:

About Med Center Health:

Med Center Health’s mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.  Our integrated healthcare system includes hospitals in Bowling Green, Albany, Caverna (Horse Cave), Franklin and Scottsville, as well as Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital, a long-term, acute care hospital. Combined, the hospitals comprise 454 acute care beds and 110 extended care beds, 400+ physicians in more than 50 specialties.

Med Center Health is committed to medical education as a central component to its mission.  Our hospital, in partnership with The University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, currently offers multiple Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited training programs designed to produce skilled physicians focused on delivering patient-centered, evidence-based, cost-effective care.  Currently, The Medical Center at Bowling Green serves as the primary clinical teaching site for 70+ graduate medical education trainees enrolled across seven ACGME-accredited training programs and an ACGME-accredited Psychiatry community track program.  In addition, the UK College of Medicine established a four-year regional campus in Bowling Green in partnership with Med Center Health and Western Kentucky University.

About Bowling Green and South Central, Kentucky:
Bowling Green, the third most populous city in the state of Kentucky, is located just 60 miles north of Nashville, Tennessee, and 110 miles south of Louisville. The 2020 U.S. Census Bureau total for Bowling Green is 72,294, and the population of Warren County is 134,554.  Bowling Green is honored with being named one of The South’s Best Cities on the Rise 2022 by Southern Living readers and was ranked by MONEY Magazine as The Best Place to Live in Kentucky in 2018.

For a full listing of community resources, schools, businesses, industries, and attractions, please visit:

• Bowling Green Convention and Visitor’s Bureau – http://visitbgky.com/
• Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce – http://www.bgchamber.com/
• City of Bowling Green – http://www.bgky.org/