Section Chief of Trauma, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care

Network Chief of Trauma, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care - WMCHealth

Summary

WMC Health’s Department of Surgery is seeking a fellowship trained trauma surgeon with a specialization in trauma surgery, general surgery and surgical critical care, who has academic leadership experience. WMCHealth has 5 trauma centers integrated as the WMCHealth Trauma Consortium. The main campus of Westchester Medical Center has an ACS verified Level 1 Level 1 regional Trauma Center for adults and for pediatric patients. All of the trauma centers have high general surgery operative volume which includes robotic surgery. The candidate will be expected to lead the academic and programmatic missions at the main campus in addition to providing support and oversight to the consortium’s trauma centers and programs. The trauma program is an integral component of a large academic Department of Surgery that spans three geographic regions and nine hospitals, with a robust research program that includes an international trauma research fellowship.

Experience:

Applicants must be board certified or board eligible by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and surgical critical care. Requirements include demonstrated skills in emergency surgery, surgical critical care and, trauma patient care, and a record of leadership, teaching and research experience (health services, translational or basic science research). The Network Chief of Trauma, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care reports directly to the Chair of the Department of Surgery. Candidate requirements include an M.D. or D.O. from an accredited school of medicine or osteopathy, as well as the completion of a surgical residency and a surgical critical care fellowship.

About Us

As the primary teaching hospital of New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center has both an ACGME accredited general surgery residency training program and an ACGME accredited surgical critical care fellowship program (the largest such fellowship in the state of New York), and you will have ample opportunities to be involved with medical student, resident and fellow education. Academic Appointment at New York Medical College will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. This is an employed position within our academic group practice with comprehensive benefits and malpractice coverage.

Facility Info:

WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York with 9 hospitals on seven campuses serving a population of three million people and spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley and includes Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, a state-of-the-art Telemedicine program, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State.

Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Other:

Interested candidates should email a curriculum vitae along with a letter of interest to Kartik Prabhakaran MD FACS, Chair of Surgery by email: kartik.prabhakaran@wmchealth.org

Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Summary : The Section Chief provides operational leadership for all pediatric surgery services as well as clinical leadership and expertise within the pediatric surgery clinical team. This position proactively identifies opportunities to improve the patient and family experience of care and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use including staff and budget and ensures compliance with legal, regulatory and clinical policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and directs the work of the pediatric surgery team members.
• Participates and takes clinical leadership in the development and review of appropriate clinical protocols.
• Leads monthly and periodic team meetings for the operational and administrative functions of pediatric surgery program.
• Coordinates annual strategic planning for pediatric surgery program.
• Develops and oversees metrics to demonstrate program impact.
• Oversees program budget, review of performance measures and use of staff resources proportional to activity and patient care.
• Regularly reviews financial and operational impact of pediatric surgery program on the hospital and produces summaries for leadership review.
• Leads the identification of education needs for hospital staff and development of effective educational initiatives.
• Provides education for fellows, residents and students in pediatric surgery core concepts.
• Participates in and promotes research in pediatric surgery topics.
• Provides outreach to community agencies and health care settings as appropriate.
• Ensures that clinical protocols, utilization review, case management, quality assurance and compliance programs are implemented according to hospital policies.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory standards; participates in quality assurance and peer review programs and ensures compliance with and implementation of any resulting recommendations.
• Functions as spokesperson for the program internally and externally.
• Works with hospital leadership to enhance the pediatric surgery program’s community outreach to physicians, the public, health care facilities and other applicable organizations in the community.
• Works with the director of development to secure philanthropic support for pediatric surgery services.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Experience: Doctor of Medicine with five years of clinical experience beyond training and one year of administrative experience, required. Board certified or eligible in pediatric surgery medicine or equivalent experience. A minimum of one-year experience working as part of an interdisciplinary team, required. Management and leadership experience, preferred. Experience with quality improvement methodology, preferred .

Education:

Licenses / Certifications: Current NY state medical license in good standing.

Other:

Special Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Physical Activity (please check one box):

☐ Sedentary Work (involves sitting most of the time, occasionally walking and standing; requires lifting no more

than 10 pounds at a time and/or occasionally lifting or carrying objects)

☒ Light Work (involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects

weighing up to 10 pounds; requires moderate mobility to different work locations)

☐ Medium Work (involves substantial physical activity and mobility; and lifting no more than 50 pounds at a time

with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 pounds.)

☐ Heavy Work (involves some type of manual labor including operating heavy machinery/ equipment or physical

labor; requires lifting no more than 100 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up

to 50 pounds)

• Other Physical Requirements (check all that apply):

☒ Blood Bourne Exposure ☒ Hearing ☒ Manual Dexterity

☒ Pushing/Pulling ☒ Standing, climbing, mobility ☒ Visual Acuity

☐ Other:_____________________________