Addiction Medicine Physician

RWJBarnabas Health is seeking an Addiction Medicine Physician to provide comprehensive care for pregnant, postpartum, and parenting patients with substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions. Care will be delivered through outpatient visits and telehealth across the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum periods.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, diagnose, and develop individualized treatment plans for pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders.
• Prescribe and manage medications for substance use disorders during pregnancy and lactation, including buprenorphine and other evidence-based therapies.
• Coordinate methadone treatment with opioid treatment programs.
• Provide screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment, and outpatient withdrawal management when appropriate.
• Deliver in-person and telehealth services in accordance with clinical, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
• Coordinate prenatal, delivery, postpartum, pain management, and newborn care with Obstetrics, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Pediatrics, Neonatology, Midwifery, and Lactation services.
• Educate patients on neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, breastfeeding, overdose prevention, naloxone use, contraception, and family planning.
• Evaluate co-occurring medical and behavioral health conditions and coordinate specialty referrals as needed.
• Provide trauma-informed care and connect patients with social services, peer recovery specialists, home-visiting programs, community health workers, and other support resources.
• Order and interpret laboratory and toxicology testing, review the state Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and maintain timely clinical documentation.
• Participate in interdisciplinary case conferences, quality improvement initiatives, peer review, and perinatal care planning.
• Fulfill applicable confidentiality, mandated reporting, and Plans of Safe Care requirements.

Requirements

• MD or DO degree from an accredited institution.
• Completion of an ACGME- or AOA-accredited residency.
• Board certification in Addiction Medicine through ABPM or AOA, or Addiction Psychiatry through ABPN.
• Current unrestricted DEA registration for Schedules II–V.
• Clinical experience treating substance use disorders, including the management of medications for opioid use disorder.
• Knowledge of evidence-based perinatal addiction treatment, trauma-informed care, controlled-substance regulations, and applicable reporting requirements.
• Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary care model and communicate with patients and families in a respectful, non-stigmatizing manner.

Fellowship training in Addiction Medicine or Addiction Psychiatry is preferred. Additional consideration will be given to candidates with experience treating pregnant and postpartum patients, providing outpatient or telehealth-based addiction care, collaborating with opioid treatment programs and child welfare systems, or participating in perinatal quality improvement initiatives. New fellowship graduates are encouraged to apply.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $200,000 to $300,000 per year. The compensation offered will depend on the candidate’s educational background, skills, and professional experience.

About Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

Since 1865, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC), New Jersey’s oldest non-profit, nonsectarian hospital, has worked to exceed our community’s highest expectations for compassionate care, health care excellence and superior service. Our commitment to excellence is illustrated by our numerous designations from national organizations. As New Jersey’s only certified burn center, CBMC draws adult and pediatric patients from all over the state. The Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division is the 5th largest kidney transplant program in the nation. The critically acclaimed Regional Perinatal Center provides care for the smallest high-risk and critically ill infants in New Jersey’s leading Level III, 56-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Our Heart Centers offer a comprehensive array of cardiac services and procedures including Open Heart Surgery and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements. The Cancer Center at CBMC — a clinical partner of Rutgers Cancer Institute — offers a coordinated program including Medical, Surgical and Radiation Oncology with the expertise and compassion to treat a wide range of cancers and disease sites. For those with disorders of the chest, our thoracic surgery team provides the most appropriate minimally invasive surgical techniques. The majority of patients have video-assisted thoracoscopic, laparoscopic or robotic surgeries to minimize blood loss and reduce postoperative pain, resulting in shorter hospital stays and a faster recovery to daily activities.

The Breast Center at the Ambulatory Care Center — one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive breast diagnostic centers — performs close to 50,000 procedures annually with coordinated care and patient navigation to the medical and surgical expertise and services available through CBMC. The Breast Center now has a dedicated MRI enhancing the continuum of care for patients.

CBMC is accredited by The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The medical center is a major teaching affiliate of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. The medical staff representing 100 medical and surgical specialty and subspecialty services, shares medical expertise with medical students, residents and fellows.

About RWJBarnabas Health

RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system, providing treatment and services to more than three million patients each year. With 12 acute care hospitals, 3 children's hospitals, a growing number of outpatient facilities and physician practices, our healthcare system is committed to providing the highest quality of patient care and health education to the community and region.

Our dedication to serving the people of New Jersey extends far beyond the care we provide within our hospital walls. We support programs that promote health and wellness in our communities and provide access to services that would otherwise be unavailable. We are committed to the ongoing improvement of the health, quality of life, and vitality of our communities. We strive to bring the best healthcare to meet the evolving needs of residents in New Jersey — whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Our partnership with Rutgers University creates the state’s largest academic healthcare system dedicated to providing high-quality patient care, leading-edge research, and world-class health and medical education, further advancing our mission of providing high-quality healthcare in New Jersey. The new collaboration also aligns RWJBarnabas Health with Rutgers’ education, research, and clinical activities, including those at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.