Job Summary:

The Department of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is seeking a Chief, Intra-Abdominal Transplant. This role will be filled by an Abdominal Transplant surgeon (MD or DO), board certified by the American Board of Surgery (or equivalent), with proven clinical and leadership experience in liver and kidney transplant, including living donor transplant, and with important focus on liver transplant. The individual will meet the primary surgeon requirements outlined in the UNOS/OPTN bylaws, including the criteria for open and laparoscopic retrieval of living donor kidneys.

In collaboration with the Director of Surgery and Vice President of the Service Line, the Chief will be responsible for planning, organizing, conducting, and directing the Intra-Abdominal Transplant Program. He/she will devote substantial time to administering the transplant program. Serving as the UNOS designated Primary Surgeon, the Chief will ensure communication with OPTN, OPO, UNOS, CMS and Department of Health, as necessary.

This individual will be expected to provide clinical leadership across the multi-hospital system. Successful candidates will have demonstrated leadership skills and will be committed to patient care, the education of medical students, residents, fellows, and scholarly activities that advance clinical medicine. Academic appointment commensurate with experience is available.

Job Responsibilities:

• Organ recovery, including living donor recovery
• Organ transplantation
• Daily rounding
• Overseeing weekly multidisciplinary transplant evaluations, selection meetings, and QAPI activities
• Teaching residents and training the inpatient nursing staff, transplant coordinators and other members of the transplant team
• Managing coverage of the intra-abdominal transplant service
• Reviewing and updating policies and procedures
• Physician recruitment and outreach efforts

Qualifications / Requirements:

• MD, DO, or equivalent degree
• Board Certification in General Surgery
• Additional training in Transplant Surgery
• Eligible for a New York State Medical License
• Excellent administrative and interpersonal skills
• Experience in the selection, surgical, and post- surgical management of living donor patients

Other:

• Credibility as an outstanding clinician, scholar and educator.
• Has a high level of personal and professional integrity.
• Strong leadership, team, communication, listening, and organizational skills
• Highly collaborative with other physicians, nurses, care providers, and administrative leadership.
• Charismatic leader with strength of presence, conviction, strong influencing and negotiation skills, able to manage complex and shifting organizational/division dynamics.
• Strength in both operations and strategy with the ability to delegate yet execute while holding teams and individuals accountable.
• Creative thinker with the ability to craft and execute a vision that others will follow.
• Ability to mentor and develop others and to build highly functional teams.

About Us:

WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 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, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer.