Wake Forest School of Medicine Looking for Enterprise Academic Chair, Department of Orthopaedics Full Time

Wake Forest School of Medicine is seeking a national leader as our new Enterprise Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics.

This
is a unique opportunity to lead a thriving academic and clinical department (26 academic locations, 3 research laboratories, 70 faculty, 2
residencies, 6 fellowships) and build on prior success, leveraging the talents of a diverse group of faculty, staff, residents, fellows, and
students as our medical school and health system enter into a period of unprecedented growth including the construction of a second medical
school campus in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The department is characterized by a highly collaborative and transparent culture
where faculty have mutual respect for one another and are valued for their clinical, research and educational contributions and are
supported in their growth in their particular areas of strength and interest. The department is very well rounded, and has high morale, very
low turnover and our residency and fellowship programs are highly competitive and respected.

ABOUT WAKE
FOREST

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health (www.WakeHealth.edu) is a nationally recognized academic health system in Winston-Salem, NC, with an integrated
enterprise serving 24 counties in NC and Virginia. It comprises a regional clinical system with more than 300 locations, 2,100 physicians
and 1,535 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine; and Wake Forest Innovations, which promotes the commercialization of research
discoveries. Public Health Sciences is located in the Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park specializing in biotechnology,
materials science and information technology.

This is a time of tremendous growth for Wake Forest. In 2020, Wake Forest Baptist
Health and Atrium Health officially joined together as a single enterprise. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Atrium Health is an integrated,
not-for-profit health care system with nearly 40 hospitals and hundreds of care locations throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. As part of
this new enterprise, Atrium Health has announced $3.4 billion in planned investments in our health system and the communities we serve. Wake
Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine will be a critical component of the academic core of Atrium Health, building a
second campus of the School of Medicine in Charlotte. The growth of the medical school will expand existing academic research capabilities
and opportunities for population health and clinical trials across a large, diverse market.

WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH
CAROLINA

Located in Forsyth County (population ≈376,000) in the Piedmont Triad region of NC, Winston-Salem is the
state’s fifth largest city, featuring a moderate climate with all four seasons and housing costs ≈30% below the national
average. Residents enjoy a vibrant restaurant scene, a wide variety of indoor and outdoor recreational opportunities, strong public/private
schools, enthusiastic support for the arts, and close proximity to the Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Coast beaches.
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A comprehensive position description is available upon request.