Details
Posted: 14-Apr-22
Location: Staten Island, New York
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: MD/DO
Categories:
Physicians/Surgeons
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Internal Number: Trauma Medical Director
Trauma Medical Director
Staten Island University Hospital
Northwell Health
Position Mission
Northwell Health is seeking a full-time academic Trauma Medical Director board certified in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care to join the faculty at our Staten Island University Hospital. There is also an opportunity to be the Acute Care Surgery Director. This is an excellent opportunity to work as a Clinician Educator in a high acuity environment with a very supportive and experienced team. The qualified candidate will join and direct a team of three full-time trauma attendings in Staten Island University Hospital Division of Trauma.
The Director will also have responsibilities in the Surgical ICU and Acute Care Surgery services. Staten Island University Hospital is an ACS certified Level I Trauma Center with 3000 trauma evaluations, admitting over 50% annually. The Division also manages 5-10 beds in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Lastly, the Division is actively involved in research at the basic science, translational, and clinical level with active teaching responsibilities of residents and fellows. SIUH maintains an ACGME accredited general surgery residency, one of 3 in the Northwell Health System, as well as fellowships in Surgical Critical Care, Vascular and MIS.
As a leader, you will grow the Surgery portfolio through a combination of direct management of service-line operated programs, collaborative stewardship of non-service line-operated programs, and participation in system-level initiatives.
As an innovator, you will identify opportunities to improve patient satisfaction, quality of care, and delivery of direct patient care to ensure delivery of quality services. You will work with service-line leadership and our full-time trauma attending team to expand, develop, implement, and promote the best care for the patients we seek to serve.
As an educator, you will collaborate with medical school leadership on the design and implementation of educational curriculums and train the next generation of physicians at The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
The Department of Surgery at Northwell Health
Our Approach
Northwell Health strives to address the diverse injury needs of the communities we serve by providing a continuum of high-quality services and resources. You will join a Health System-wide team of hundreds of knowledgeable surgeons on staff at our many hospital locations. Our renowned physicians are board-certified specialists in their areas of clinical focus, and many have teaching appointments through the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Our surgeons are part of an expansive team of physicians, nurses and other health professionals dedicated to providing the best care for the patients we seek to serve.
Our Vision
Northwell Health boasts hospitals with well-staffed surgery departments, which are crucial pillars of support to their facilities. Through collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, technicians and additional support staff, we are able to diagnose and treat each specific injury or illness. We provide many advanced programs to ensure that we provide state-of-the-art care for virtually any illness or injury for the patients we seek to serve.
Focus on the Whole Patient
As the largest health care system in the New York metropolitan area—and the 13th largest in the nation—patients benefit from Northwell Health’s entire continuum of care. Due to our extensive breadth and depth of clinical services, we are equipped to care for the most complex patients and meet 100% of their clinical, social, and emotional needs.
Comprehensive Depth and Breadth of Services
Staten Island University Hospital is a 714-bed teaching hospital that spans two campuses and provides a vast array of services in health and wellness. Our 17-acre North campus houses Staten Island’s most modern emergency department, a state-of-the-art education center and a medical arts pavilion. Our South campus boasts its own emergency department and offers a range of specialty programs, including geriatric psychiatry, behavioral health and substance abuse services.
The Department of Surgery at SIUH consists of 40 full-time and 6 part-time Physicians spanning the disciplines of general, vascular, breast, colorectal, bariatric, minimally invasive, hernia, and trauma, plastics, pediatrics, podiatry, urology, ENT, orthopedics, neurosurgery and ophthalmology. The Department maintains accreditation as an Adult Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Level II Trauma Center, Surgical Residency Training Program (3 per year), Vascular Fellowship, Minimally Invasive Fellowship and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.
Nationally-Recognized Research Institute with State-of-the-Art Laboratories
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research are composed of more than 1,500 clinicians, scientists and staff who work in laboratories and clinical research programs in collaboration with clinicians and patients throughout the many facilities of Northwell Health. Every year, more than 15,000 patients and volunteers participate in over 2,000 research studies. Our state-of-the-art laboratories provide the infrastructure needed to conduct groundbreaking, disease-oriented research. It also houses the largest genotyping facility in the state of New York. The Feinstein Institute ranks in the top 6th percentile of all National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded to research centers. The Feinstein Institute has produced more than 200 patents in 80 distinct technologies and has generated a dozen successful biotech start-ups.
A Medical School Seeking to Redefine Medical Education
Established in 2008, The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell was founded by two equal partners: Hofstra University and Northwell Health. The School of Medicine is built upon the strong clinical and graduate medical education programs of Northwell, as well as the robust research and academic programs of both Hofstra and Northwell’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Currently, the Zucker School of Medicine ranks among top medical schools nationwide for primary care (2018 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools). The institution comprises more than 2,400 faculty members across 25 academic departments, and enrolls a diverse community of approximately 400 students.
Unwavering Commitment to Innovation
At Northwell Health, we like to say, we see health care differently. That’s because we are driven by innovation; a commitment that is as unique as it is organic. It is as likely to be found in our environmental services department as it is on our patient floors or in our research labs. It is a way of thinking, acting and believing that, when it comes to health care, we can find a better way. Our goal has always been to be better today than we were yesterday; better tomorrow than we are today. It is a singular focus. It is the Northwell Way. The following pages offer a summary of the role we are seeking to fill. We hope you will be among the chosen to give the best of their energy and skill to dreaming the impossible and making it possible.
| Please send your CV and interest to: Romaine Walton Director, The Office of Physician Recruitment For additional information, please contact: Office of Physician Recruitment 600 Community Drive, Ste. 302 Manhasset, NY 11030 |
Candidate Qualifications
The successful candidate will ideally possess the following qualifications and experience:
Education and Experience
- MD or DO degree from an accredited College of Medicine
- Board certified in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care
- Minimum of three (3) years of progressive clinical experience
- Must be licensed or eligible to be licensed as a physician in the State of New York
- Previous leadership experience preferred
Capabilities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to establish credibility quickly, build rapport, and easily interact with clinical and administrative leadership, as well as physicians and staff throughout Northwell Health.
- Proven ability to cultivate strong relationships with various stakeholders and create an environment that fosters collaboration and trust.
- Exceptional presentation skills and a high degree of poise when interacting with internal and external senior leaders.
- Expertise in the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines and technological advances.
- Genuine enthusiasm for working in an environment of constant change and growth.
- Desire to train the next generation of physicians.
Personal Characteristics
- Strategic and critical thinker.
- Integrity and accountability.
- Visionary and innovative.
- Decisive and results-oriented.
- Credibility and presence.
Responsibilities and First-Year Aspirations
The newly appointed Trauma Medical Director will be expected to achieve the following goals in the first twelve months of his or her tenure:
- Earn the trust and confidence of the regional players and hospital leaders, administrators at each ambulatory location, physicians and staff throughout Northwell Health.
- Ensure high quality patient care through development and standardization of care processes and protocols, educational seminars, metrics, outcome measures and process improvement initiatives.
- Actively participate in physician recruitment and the development of growth opportunities.
- Develop interdisciplinary collaborations with the Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to expand and enhance research programs, with an emphasis on expanding access to clinical trials in year one.
- Participate in research projects (basic/clinical/applied), and advise fellows and house staff.
