The Department of Pediatrics at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, Northwell Health, is seeking a physician to join the rapidly growing Cohen Children’s Heart Center with a particular focus on general pediatric cardiology, echocardiography and fetal echocardiography; MRI/CT imaging involvement is also a potential. The ideal candidate would be BC/BE in Pediatric Cardiology and have spent additional time in a dedicated fourth-year cardiac imaging fellowship or have spent significant time working in the field. More senior physicians seeking leadership opportunities are strongly encouraged to apply. Our clinicians participate in the inpatient and outpatient clinical activities of the division and details of these activities will be decided in partnership with the candidate. A strong interest in helping to grow our programs and pursue research in the field of echocardiography is desirable, as is a commitment to work and partner with multidisciplinary team members.

 

The Cohen Children’s Heart Center sits across the Department of Pediatrics of Northwell Health. Under the leadership of the System Chiefs of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Jeffrey Gossett, and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Neil K. Worrall the Heart Center functions as a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team focused on clinical and academic excellence. We are one of the highest volume programs in New York State, and the only children’s hospital on Long Island that offers comprehensive cardiac and cardiac surgical care from pregnancy through infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood for congenital heart disease. The Heart Center is rapidly growing with dramatic increase in our clinical programs over the last few years. The team consists of more than 30 cardiologists helping to assure outstanding outcomes, and with a strong commitment to further growth including our now active Mechanial Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant programs and our soon to be constructed dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care.  The Heart Center’s director of cardiac imaging, Dr. Ira Parness, has a deep reputation for excellence in imaging and is a renowned educator. Under his leadership, our imaging team currently reads over 20,000 studies including over 5000 fetal echocardiograms per year. An early fetal ECHO program has started and is very rapidly growing. The Northwell Advanced Fetal Care Program is collocated with pediatric cardiology helping to assure seamless patient care. We have a team of two dedicated nurse coordinators for our multidisciplinary fetal heart program who assure communication between the cardiology, obstetric, surgical and other supporting services, thus extending to prenatal life our core commitment to patient-centered excellence. Within our imaging group we also have a robust three-dimensional imaging program that serves to complement the echocardiographic program.

 

The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center is the largest pediatric teaching hospital in the New York metropolitan region, with more than 13,000 admissions per year and a catchment area of over 8 million people. It is the sole tertiary pediatric medical center of the 23-hospital Northwell Health system, formally the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and has the only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center and ECMO Center on Long Island. CCMC is located in the New York City suburbs bordering one of the most diverse communities in New York City. Team members and their families live throughout the entire New York Metro area including on Long Island, Westchester and in Manhattan. 

 

Cohen Children’s Medical Center is among the top-rated children’s hospitals in New York. As the largest provider of pediatric health services in the state, Cohen Children’s has been ranked among the nation’s top children’s hospitals by US News for 15 consecutive years. Please find more information about the department of Pediatrics in this video: https://youtu.be/IqH03O4r0ZA

 

 

The Cohen Children’s Heart Center, and Northwell Health, are committed to training, supporting and nurturing physicians from all backgrounds. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result, our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do, from education, to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being. One of our many strengths is our diverse patient population and our expectation is that our diverse patient populations receive equitable care, irrespective of who they are. As a result, we continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of our diverse patients. Northwell is proud to offer a highly competitive salary and generous benefits package. In addition, an academic appointment with The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell is commensurate with credentials and experience. Physicians will be employed as members of Northwell Physician Partners, the seventh largest medical group in the country.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Gossett, Vice President and System Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, JGossett1@northwell.edu or Rachel Podella, Office of Physician Recruitment, Northwell Health, OPR@northwell.edu.

 

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