Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
Geriatric Medicine Physician
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) Burlington, MA, United States
✨ The Opportunity
The Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is seeking a board certified/eligible Geriatric Medicine Physician to help develop and lead an inpatient geriatrics consultation service.
This role is key to our clinical, educational, and quality improvement missions.
🏥 What You Will Do
Assist with developing an inpatient geriatric consultation service within Lahey’s academic medical center.
Provide consultation services as part of interdisciplinary care.
Support LHMC’s plans to become an Age-Friendly Health System
Teach geriatric care principles to interdisciplinary professional learners, including medical students and residents
Commit to promoting quality care transitions.
🎓 Program & Educational Focus
LHMC is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
Professional Development: We support candidates' interests with available clinical, educational, and academic opportunities.
Preferred: Interest and experience in program development.
Academic Appointment: Opportunity for an academic appointment with the University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine (commensurate with achievement).
✅ Qualifications & Requirements
Candidates must meet the following:
Completed Geriatric Medicine Fellowship training by hire date or demonstrate comparable experience.
Board certified/eligible in Geriatric Medicine.
Demonstrate passion for clinical geriatrics.
📍 About Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
LHMC is a member of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), an integrated healthcare system including 4 academic medical centers and 14 member hospitals.
LHMC has been recognized as one of America’s 50 best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2023, 2024, and 2025
Location: Conveniently located in Burlington, MA, approximately 15 miles northwest of Boston.
The Area: Offers excellent schools, academic institutions, and abundant cultural/recreational amenities, with a short drive to the New England lakes, mountains, and shores.
📧 How to Apply
Interested candidates should forward a letter of interest and CV to:
Gary Winzelberg, MD, Chair, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine c/o Janet Waters (Physician Recruiter)
Email: jwaters2@bilh.org
Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve. All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment. Please see here for more information about our purpose and values (https://bilh.org/about/purpose-values) and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (https://bilh.org/careers/eeo-policy).
Pay Range:
$220,000.00 USD - $240,000.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
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Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.
Awards
The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.
