Associate Professor (GFT), Neonatology

About the role

The Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Associate Professor (GFT), Neonatology.

Responsibilities

• Provide education, clinical supervision, and formal teaching to medical students, PA/Nursing students, residents, and fellows within Pediatrics and Neonatal Perinatal Medicine.
• Provide clinical care and evaluate, assess and manage neonatal and infant patients at University Hospital at Downstate with emphasis on specialty care of newborn infants, particularly those born prematurely or with serious or complex medical conditions.
• Work directly as attending of record in the UHD Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to diagnose, treat, and monitor the health of NICU patients, while providing support and education to families during a critical time.
• Respond to calls to Labor and Delivery and elsewhere as needed for high-risk deliveries or fetuses in distress.
• Respond to calls for consults in term newborn nursery.
• Assist in the administration and activities of the ACGME accredited fellowship training program in neonatal-perinatal medicine.
• Perform patient assessment and treatment, monitor vital signs, manage complex medical situations, facilitate family communication, and collaborate with the healthcare team (NICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and other specialists) to develop and carry out a comprehensive care plan for each infant.
• Perform procedures.
• Attend high-risk deliveries requiring expertise in delivery room resuscitation and stabilization of anticipated events.
• Actively participate in daily patient rounds, medical records documentation of patient status, admission H and P, daily progress notes, procedure notes, medication reconciliation, and discharge summaries.
• Perform NICU attending on clinical service with rotations in the NICU, on-site night and week-end day or night calls in rotation with the other NICU attendings, possible high risk follow-up/developmental clinics, and conducting neonatal critical care transports.
• Serve as supervising physician in the residency training program, teaching and supervising residents and participating in the interviews/recruitment, mentoring and evaluation of residents.
• Participate in a range of scholarly activities such as clinical research with potential for reviewed publications and/or extramural grant support necessary for eligibility for academic advancement.
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of medical students, health related professions students and staff.
• Engage in administrative and committee work as institutional service is also expected and necessary for academic advancement.
• Participate in the Clinical Practice Management Plan of the Department of Pediatrics as a billing provider or contracted service provider.

Required Qualifications

• New York State Medical Licensure.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency.
• Board Certified in Pediatrics.
• Successfully completed or be completing an ACGME accredited fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM) and be Board Certified or eligible for NPM.
• Possesses or be eligible for DEA Certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Evidence of academic experience, including teaching and/or research/scholarship, is strongly preferred.