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ECU Health Physicians and The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are seeking a fellowship trained BE/BC Geriatric Psychiatrist. The successful candidate will join a growing academic division. New graduates and visa candidates are welcome to apply.
The new ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital, a 144-bed behavioral health facility, opened January 2026. The new facility will include up to 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of geriatric patients.
Opportunity exists to serve as fellowship director for a new geriatric fellowship for interested applicants.
Highlights include:
• Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Practice Model
• Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center and the new Behavioral Health Hospital, Greenville, NC, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina
• Inpatient and outpatient clinical responsibilities will include seeing patients at the ECU Health Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine outpatient clinic and the ECU Health Family Medicine Monk Geriatric Center as well as providing inpatient consults
• Opportunity to develop a consultation service for multiple nursing homes within close proximity to the medical center
• Support from and collaboration with 4 neuropsychologists
• Monday-Friday 8a – 5p schedule with rotating night call by phone
• 24/7 resident coverage including taking first call
• Excellent blend of clinical care, teaching, and scholarly activities
• Opportunity to work with a growing, multi-disciplinary, and collegial department
• Salary and academic rank (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background
Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance
Additional supplemental insurance benefits options – Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision
Opportunities exist for student loan repayment from the North Carolina Medical Society and The North Carolina Office of Rural Health.
Greenville, NC
Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC. Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!
About the Organization
ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org
ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.
This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.
Contact Information
For more information, please contact Shelly Harrington at 252-417-8975 or by email Shelly.Harrington@ecuhealth.org.
To apply for this job please visit careers.ecuhealth.org.