Description

Orthopedic or Plastic Hand Surgeon

Join an expanding orthopedic and hand surgery program in the heart of the Sunshine State. Lakeland Regional Health (LRH) is seeking a fellowship-trained Orthopedic or Plastic Hand Surgeon to join our growing team in beautiful Lakeland, Florida. As part of one of Florida's largest independent health systems, you'll join a collaborative, patient-centered organization committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and physician support.

Lakeland Regional Health is seeking a fellowship-trained Hand Surgeon to help expand our comprehensive regional hand surgery program. The ideal candidate will:

Be fellowship trained in Hand Surgery; Upper Extremity fellowship training is a ideal.
Provide comprehensive outpatient and inpatient hand surgery care.
Play a key role in growing the region's only dedicated hand surgery program, serving a multicounty referral population of approximately one million people at a level 1 Trauma center.
 

Position Highlights

Large employed physician group with more than 400 providers representing 40+ specialties.
Extensive referral network through LRH primary care, neurology, rheumatology, and community physicians.
Join an established team of two Orthopedic Hand Surgeons and two Plastic Hand Surgeons.
Outpatient clinic featuring: On-site hand therapy, radiology and ultrasound.
Shared hand surgery call at a single Level I Trauma Center. Hand surgery call only—no general orthopedic trauma call required.
Opportunity to perform surgery in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
 

LRH offers comprehensive benefits including 403(b), 457(b), Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, Paid Time Off, CME Allowance, CME Days, and Malpractice Insurance with Tail Coverage.

About Lakeland Regional Health

For more than 100 years, Lakeland Regional Health has provided exceptional inpatient and outpatient care across more than 40 specialties. As a not-for-profit academic health system, LRH has earned workplace recognition from organizations including Aetna, Forbes, and the Florida Hospital Association.

Our 910-bed, state-of-the-art teaching hospital is home to:

Level I Trauma Center
Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Bannasch Institute for Advanced Rehabilitation Medicine
One of the nation's busiest single-site Emergency Departments
Lakeland Regional Health is also proud to collaborate with Nemours Children's Health, further expanding access to high-quality pediatric specialty care.

Qualifications

Board Certified or Board Eligible through ABMS or AOA
Completion of an accredited Hand Surgery fellowship with experience at a Level I Trauma Center preferred.
 

Live Where You Vacation -Experience an exceptional career with a health system that values collaboration, innovation, and outstanding patient care—all while enjoying the lifestyle that Central Florida has to offer.

To learn more about this opportunity, please send your CV to physicianswork@myLRH.org.

Requirements

• Be fellowship trained in Hand Surgery; Upper Extremity fellowship training is a ideal.
• Provide comprehensive outpatient and inpatient hand surgery care.
• Play a key role in growing the region's only dedicated hand surgery program, serving a multicounty referral population of approximately one million people at a level 1 Trauma center.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible through ABMS or AOA
• Completion of an accredited Hand Surgery fellowship with experience at a Level I Trauma Center preferred.