Description
ECU Health Physicians and East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are seeking a BE/BC Perinatal /Reproductive Psychiatrist. Applicants should have completed a Psychiatry or Obstetrics/Gynecology Residency as well as a Reproductive or Perinatal Fellowship.
The new ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital, a 144-bed behavioral health facility, opened December of 2025 and will service children/Adolescents thru geriatrics. With an affordable cost of living, mild winters and close proximity to the North Carolina Coast, Greenville is an excellent place to call home.
Highlights include:
- Employment by ECU Health Physicians
- Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-bed academic medical center and home to the James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital, and at the nearby ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital
- Academic appointment with East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine
- Inpatient services will include providing consults for the ECU Health Medical Center’s emergency department and behavioral health unit
- Outpatient services will include providing care in both ECU Health’s behavioral health and obstetrics gynecology clinics for perinatal patients
- Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm schedule for both outpatient and inpatient clinical responsibilities
- Phone only call coverage for nights and weekends
- Excellent blend of clinical care, teaching, and scholarly activities
- Ability to work with an expanding multi-disciplinary and collegial department including an ob/gyn addiction trained liaison and the ability to do consults, manage medication for labor and delivery and Ob/Gyn clinics
Competitive Compensation and Comprehensive Benefits to include: Administrative Stipend, Relocation, Paid Vacation, Sick, & Holidays, Malpractice/Tail Coverage, 401k matching/457, Medical, Dental, & Vision, Disability & Life Insurance
Opportunities exist for student loan repayment from the North Carolina Medical Society and The North Carolina Office of Rural Health.
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.
Greenville, 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!
- 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
- Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
- Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
- Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
- Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
- Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area
For more information, please contact Shelly Harrington at 252-417-8975 or by email Shelly.Harrington@ecuhealth.org.
