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Northwell Health - Director Breast Imaging - SIUH

Employer
Northwell Health
Location
New York
Posted Date
Jun 25, 2018

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Job Details

Northwell Health’s Staten Island University Hospital is seeking an experienced, Board-certified, fellowship-trained breast imaging specialist to serve as Section Chief of Breast Imaging and Director of our Breast Imaging Center. Ideal candidate must have completed Breast Imaging Fellowship and be ABR certified. Leadership experience preferred.

Staten Island University Hospital is a 714-bed, specialized teaching hospital located in New York City’s fastest-growing borough. Occupying two large campuses, plus a number of community-based health centers and labs, the hospital provides quality care to the people of Staten Island, the New York metropolitan region, and to patients from around the world.

Our imaging center is part of the Florina Rusi-Marke Comprehensive Breast Center in which imagers, surgeons, pathologist and oncologists work in close collaboration to provide multidisciplinary care. Our weekly prospective multidisciplinary conference also includes nurse navigators, a genetic counselor and research nurses.

We are an ACR Center of Excellence where we provide approximately 18,000 screening exams, 5000 diagnostic exams, 5000 breast ultrasounds and 500 breast MRI exams annually. Additionally, we perform approximately 1200 interventional procedures. We have a combination of 5 digital 2D/tomosynthesis units, 4 ultrasound units and a prone stereotactic table. An upright tomosynthesis capable biopsy unit will be installed in the near future.

As an academic practice with a residency program, the Section Chief has primary responsibility for curriculum development and teaching, which is supported by all breast imagers in the department.

The successful candidate shall have vision and promote innovation in care delivery, quality improvement, and value initiatives. The Director works closely with departmental and senior leadership to promote the academic and clinical growth of the section, while overseeing daily operations. Success will be dependent on strong leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills as well as excellent clinical skills and technical ability.

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, more than 600 outpatient facilities and nearly 15,000 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 66,000 employees – 15,000-plus nurses and 4,000 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 Institute 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 Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

To learn more and apply, please send your CV to OPR@northwell.edu .

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About Northwell Health 

Northwell Health includes 21 award-winning hospitals and more than 750 community based practice locations throughout Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester. Northwell is the most awarded health system in all of New York, and home to the #1 hospital in the state – North Shore University Hospital* (NSUH) – according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospital Rankings survey. Additionally, six Northwell hospitals earned top 50 national rankings across 39 medical specialties, with nine hospitals ranked among the best in the state.

We have access to the wide range of resources that Northwell Health has to offer, and we are also affiliated with a number of other excellent organizations. Northwell Health Physician Partners provides exceptional, comprehensive and quality clinical care to patients, families and communities through an integrated approach and with a commitment to exceeding customer expectations. At Northwell Health, we define tomorrow’s health care through clinical care, community health, education, research and entrepreneurship.

At Northwell Health, we seek innovation and excellence in everything we do. This passion can be observed throughout our system of 21 hospitals and more than 700 ambulatory and physician practices. We are NYS largest health care provider and private employer. Our mission is to redefine patient care and the way it is provided. Are you Made for this?

Diversity and Health Equity

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 permeates our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receives 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.

Salary Disclosure

Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125K to $750K, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity. The base compensation range listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

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https://jobs.northwell.edu/career-specialties/physicians/

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