Fellowship Program Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Northwell Health –New Hyde Park, NY

Northwell Health’s Department of Psychiatry is seeking a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist to lead Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s CL Psychiatry Fellowship Program as Program Director. We are seeking an outstanding clinician and educator with leadership experience and/or aspirations in medical education, and a commitment to innovation.

The ideal candidate will align the fellowship’s mission, curriculum, and pedagogy with emerging best practices and evidence. They will oversee all aspects of the fellowship, including the clinical and didactic curriculum, competency-based assessment, and advising and mentoring. They will ensure compliance with institutional and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities will be split between the CL Fellowship Program Director role and clinical work aligned with interest. Applicants should have experience working in an Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) or Graduate Medical Education (GME) setting, and desire to develop as a leader in medical education. Our team is looking for a proactive and engaged colleague, interested in expanding their medical educational horizons and helping develop the next generation of psychiatrists.

Benefits at Northwell Health include:

• Nationally competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Four weeks’ vacation plus paid conference/CME time
• Academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
• Advanced education opportunities
• College tuition reimbursement for dependent children
  
  

HOSPITALS IN THE COMBINED DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AT ZUCKER HILLSIDE

Zucker Hillside Hospital is Northwell’s renowned 236-bed behavioral health facility, known for its pioneering clinical, teaching and research programs. Over the past 30 years, it has been the site of multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research centers focused on the treatment of schizophrenia, including a Clinical Research Center, Intervention Research Center and a Center for Intervention Development and Applied Research. These federally supported centers have provided Zucker Hillside with national and international recognition for its groundbreaking work in the diagnosis and treatment of serious mental illness. In addition, ZHH has outstanding health professions training programs with a large residency in general adult psychiatry, fellowships in child and adolescent, consultation-liaison (CL), geriatric, and addiction psychiatry: externship, internship and post-doctoral fellowships in psychology; and social work, and nursing and nurse practitioner programs.

Inpatient services include units dedicated to specific populations, including adolescent, college-aged, adult, geriatric, and women’s (perinatal psychiatry) units. Treatment specialties include early phase treatment, depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar, personality disorders, medical/neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry including Alzheimer's disease and related conditions. Zucker Hillside’s beautiful 22-bed inpatient women’s unit is the first in New York state and one of only a few in the U.S. to specialize in treating women with perinatal psychiatric illness.

Outpatient programs serve all ages and encompass the full continuum of care. These services include general adult outpatient clinics and specialized centers for bipolar, peripartum depression, OCD, early onset psychosis, college-aged patients, clozapine, long-acting injectables, children and adolescents, adolescent eating disorders, and geriatric patients. In addition, ZHH offers partial hospital treatment programs, and a full range of psychiatric rehabilitation services. Programs for alcohol and chemical dependency are available both on our main campus and in numerous community-based sites. ZHH has recently established a Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and an Interventional Psychiatry center offering ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and operates the second largest ECT program in the US. The goal at Zucker Hillside is to promote wellness and to reintegrate patients back into the community to work, attend school, socialize and live independently.

Honors and Awards:

• Recipient of the NICHE Trailblazer Award
• Recipient of the NAMI Arnold Gould Award
• Recipient of the Healthcare Equality Index Award
• Designated a Clinical Research Center for Study of Schizophrenia by the National Institute for Mental Health
• Recognized as an “Age-Friendly” hospital by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

North Shore University Hospital (NSUH)

North Shore University Hospital, a 766-bed teaching hospital, is one of the cornerstones of Northwell Health, providing the full spectrum of clinical healthcare services for patients of all ages. Located 10 minutes from ZHH in Manhasset, New York, NSUH employs more than 1,900 nurses and 6,000 employees. NSUH was nationally recognized in 9 specialties on the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals rankings. NSUH is Long Island’s highest rated hospital and among the top 4 in New York state. North Shore University Hospital is also a major university teaching hospital for the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. With a 58-acre campus, NSUH has the space and resources to provide a wide range of specialty and subspecialty residency programs, postgraduate training programs, and clinical fellowships for research and education. North Shore University Hospital is embarking on a $400 million expansion project. The Department of Psychiatry operates a highly regarded CL Psychiatry service that also encompasses care delivery to emergency department patients with psychiatric complaints and conditions.

Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC)

Long Island Jewish Medical Center is a 583-bed teaching hospital, serving the greater metropolitan New York area. Located in New Hyde Park, New York, Long Island Jewish offers world-class clinical programs. The 48-acre campus features three major facilities: Long Island Jewish Hospital, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, and Zucker Hillside Hospital. Patients come first in everything this hospital does. LIJMC is nationally recognized in 5 adult specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals Rankings. It is among the top 10 highest ranked medical centers in New York state. With 6,500 employees and 4,000 physicians, LIJMC’s primary focus is on the complete care of the patient, with a healing environment, compassionate hospitality, and a collaborative team approach to ensure the best outcomes for patients. The Department of Psychiatry operates Divisions of CL and Emergency Psychiatry at the LIJ Hospital.

Cohen Children’s Medical Center

Cohen Children’s Medical Center is a 202-bed hospital opened in 1983 as the New York metropolitan area’s only hospital designed exclusively for children. Today, it is the largest provider of pediatric health services in New York state, serving 1.8 million children in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) has earned top 40 national rankings for exceptional care in 9 pediatric specialties – the most in the New York area – according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Children’s Hospitals.  The Department of Psychiatry staffs CL and Pediatric Psychiatry Emergency and UrgiCare programs at CCMC. Children, adolescent, and transitional age youth are cared for with eating disorders at CCMC, and together with Columbia and Cornell, is designated as a New York State Center for Excellence in the care of eating disorders.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, 850 outpatient facilities and more than 12,000 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 79,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,900 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

Northwell Health is 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.

Diversity and inclusion permeate our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receive training on how to deliver high quality, culturally competent care. Our recent educational areas of focus have been on social determinants of health, community engagement and developing a medical-legal partnership for our physicians-in-training. 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.

Qualified candidates should forward their CV to Alice Perkins at aperkins2@northwell.edu.

About Northwell Health

We continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of the diverse patients we seek to serve; as a result, our Health System is proudly ranked Diversity Inc’s #1 Hospital and Health System. 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. For more information and resources regarding our initiatives, please visit our Center for Equity of Care, https://www.northwell.edu/education-and-resources/community-engagement/center-for-equity-of-care. Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the bett...er. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

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