Northwell Health is seeking a fulltime academic Acute Care Surgeon BE/BC in Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Surgery to join the faculty at our Staten Island University Hospital campus. This is an excellent opportunity to work as a Clinician Educator in a high acuity environment with a very supportive and experienced team.

The qualified candidate will join a team of five other attendings in Southside Hospital Division of Acute Care Surgery.  Surgeons will rotate through the Surgical ICU and Acute Care Surgery services. Southside Hospital is a Level II Trauma Center, and admits approximately 800 trauma and surgical patients annually.  The Division also manages a 10-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Lastly, the Division is actively involved in research at the basic science, translational, and clinical level. 

Staten Island University Hospital is a 714-bed teaching hospital that spans two campuses and provides a vast array of services in health and wellness. Our 17-acre North campus houses Staten Island s most modern emergency department, a state-of-the-art education center and a medical arts pavilion. Our South campus boasts its own emergency department and offers a range of specialty programs, including geriatric psychiatry, behavioral health, and substance abuse services. The Department of Surgery at SIUH consists of 40 full-time and 6 part-time Physicians spanning the surgical disciplines of general vascular, breast, colorectal, bariatric, minimally invasive, hernia, trauma, plastics, pediatrics, podiatry, orthopedics, and ophthalmology.

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.

The right candidate will have a strong commitment to medical student and resident education.  Interest in translational and/or clinical research is also desirable.  We are an equal opportunity employer; rank at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell will be commensurate with qualifications. 

For more information and to apply, please contact Romaine Walton, Senior Physician Recruiter, at rwalton@northwell.edu