Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida seeks an accomplished and visionary Division Chief of Neonatology to lead our Level IV NICU within one of the nation’s fastest-growing pediatric academic health systems. This role offers a rare opportunity for an experienced clinical and academic leader to shape the future of neonatal care in Central Florida while advancing innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and faculty development within a mission-driven organization.
As Division Chief, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across clinical care, education, quality, research, and program development within a culture grounded in compassion, academic excellence, and Whole Child Health. The Division Chief will play a key role in shaping neonatal services within this evolving ecosystem, helping develop new programs, strengthen alignment across specialties, and expand our regional and national impact.
Strategic Growth, Innovation & Enterprise Impact
Nemours Children’s Health is making a significant investment in the future of pediatric care through a $300 million campus expansion in Orlando, designed to support long-term growth, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This expansion includes increased inpatient capacity, new clinical facilities, and enhanced infrastructure to support academic medicine and enterprise initiatives.
Advancing Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Care Through Enterprise Leadership
In 2026, Nemours Children’s will launch its Institute for Maternal Fetal Health — a transformative advancement in how we care for mothers and babies facing complex fetal diagnoses.
The institute will be led by Julie Moldenhauer, MD, PMH-C, as its inaugural Executive Director and Elizabeth W. Snyder Endowed Chair in Fetal Therapy and Innovation. Internationally recognized for her leadership in fetal care, Dr. Moldenhauer brings a rare combination of clinical excellence, academic rigor, and deep commitment to family-centered medicine.
About Our Neonatology Program
Located in Lake Nona Medical City, Nemours Children’s, Florida is an all-private-room Level IV NICU supporting highly complex, all-referral cases. Our collaborative team of neonatologists and advanced practice providers delivers care in a high-acuity environment supported by leading-edge therapies and technology, including:
The NICU plays a critical role in supporting high-risk pregnancies through close integration with our fetal care and maternal fetal medicine programs, ensuring coordinated care from prenatal diagnosis through postnatal treatment and follow-up.
We also serve as a regional referral center, supporting Level I–III NICUs throughout Central Florida, with established partnerships including Lakeland Regional Health, HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, UCF Lake Nona Hospital, Tradition Medical Center, and Cleveland Clinic Martin Health.
Academic Excellence and Research Leadership
You will work closely with the UCF College of Medicine, supporting faculty appointments, residency education, and collaborative translational research in neonatology.
The division will continue to build on the momentum of a flagship NIH R01 grant focused on hormonal regulation and feeding outcomes in large-for-gestational-age infants. This work reflects our commitment to advancing neonatal science and improving outcomes through innovation and evidence-based care.
Qualifications
What We Offer
If you are inspired by the opportunity to lead, innovate, and collaborate while advancing the future of neonatal and maternal fetal care — we invite you to explore this leadership role at Nemours Children’s, Florida in Orlando.
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida seeks an accomplished and visionary Division Chief of Neonatology to lead our Level IV NICU within one of the nation’s fastest-growing pediatric academic health systems. This role offers a rare opportunity for an experienced clinical and academic leader to shape the future of neonatal care in Central Florida while advancing innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and faculty development within a mission-driven organization.
As Division Chief, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across clinical care, education, quality, research, and program development within a culture grounded in compassion, academic excellence, and Whole Child Health. The Division Chief will play a key role in shaping neonatal services within this evolving ecosystem, helping develop new programs, strengthen alignment across specialties, and expand our regional and national impact.
Strategic Growth, Innovation & Enterprise Impact
Nemours Children’s Health is making a significant investment in the future of pediatric care through a $300 million campus expansion in Orlando, designed to support long-term growth, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This expansion includes increased inpatient capacity, new clinical facilities, and enhanced infrastructure to support academic medicine and enterprise initiatives.
Advancing Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Care Through Enterprise Leadership
In 2026, Nemours Children’s will launch its Institute for Maternal Fetal Health — a transformative advancement in how we care for mothers and babies facing complex fetal diagnoses.
The institute will be led by Julie Moldenhauer, MD, PMH-C, as its inaugural Executive Director and Elizabeth W. Snyder Endowed Chair in Fetal Therapy and Innovation. Internationally recognized for her leadership in fetal care, Dr. Moldenhauer brings a rare combination of clinical excellence, academic rigor, and deep commitment to family-centered medicine.
About Our Neonatology Program
Located in Lake Nona Medical City, Nemours Children’s, Florida is an all-private-room Level IV NICU supporting highly complex, all-referral cases. Our collaborative team of neonatologists and advanced practice providers delivers care in a high-acuity environment supported by leading-edge therapies and technology, including:
The NICU plays a critical role in supporting high-risk pregnancies through close integration with our fetal care and maternal fetal medicine programs, ensuring coordinated care from prenatal diagnosis through postnatal treatment and follow-up.
We also serve as a regional referral center, supporting Level I–III NICUs throughout Central Florida, with established partnerships including Lakeland Regional Health, HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, UCF Lake Nona Hospital, Tradition Medical Center, and Cleveland Clinic Martin Health.
Academic Excellence and Research Leadership
You will work closely with the UCF College of Medicine, supporting faculty appointments, residency education, and collaborative translational research in neonatology.
The division will continue to build on the momentum of a flagship NIH R01 grant focused on hormonal regulation and feeding outcomes in large-for-gestational-age infants. This work reflects our commitment to advancing neonatal science and improving outcomes through innovation and evidence-based care.
Qualifications
What We Offer
If you are inspired by the opportunity to lead, innovate, and collaborate while advancing the future of neonatal and maternal fetal care — we invite you to explore this leadership role at Nemours Children’s, Florida in Orlando.
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Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.
Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.
To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org
Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
