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Pediatric Critical Care Physician - Cohen Children's Medical Center – NYC Suburbs

The Department of Pediatrics at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) and The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell is seeking a full time, board certified/board eligible Pediatric Critical Care physician to join the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.  The candidate will join a group of 16 full or part-time intensivists who cover the 37-bed, tertiary, academic PICU 24/7.

Highlights include:

• The CCMC PICU admits >2600 patients per year in the 37-bed PICU
• We provide care for the full spectrum of pediatric critical illness and utilize all modalities of advanced therapies including ECMO, CKRT, HFOV, HFPV, iNO.  We support robust general pediatric and subspecialty surgical services including neurosurgery, orthopedics, ENT, urology, and cardiothoracic surgery.
• CCMC is the only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center on Long Island, with >1000 cases per year.
• CCMC PICU leads a large pediatric critical care transport program, where >3000 patients are transferred to and from CCMC, including the ability to transport patients on ECMO and on high-frequency percussive ventilation.
• Faculty enjoy the training of 7 Pediatric Critical Care Fellows, Pediatric Residents in one of the largest training programs in the country, as well as medical students from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Cohen Children’s Medical Center opened in 1983 as the New York metropolitan area’s only hospital designed exclusively for children.  Today, it is the largest pediatric teaching hospital in the region, treating over 230,000 children per year and serving 1.8 million children in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.  It is the tertiary pediatric medical center of the Northwell Health System and the only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center on Long Island.  Cohen Children’s Medical Center is one of the top-rated children’s hospital in New York State and has earned top national rankings for exceptional care in nine pediatric specialties, according to US News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Children’s Hospitals. As the largest provider of pediatric health services in the state, Cohen Children’s has been ranked among the nation’s top children’s hospitals by US News for 15 consecutive years. Please find more information about the department of Pediatrics in this video: https://youtu.be/IqH03O4r0ZA

With 23 hospitals and more than 750 outpatient locations throughout the Metro New York area and beyond, Northwell Health serves over 11 million people and is one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the nation.  In addition to renowned clinical facilities, Northwell faculty members enjoy access to the academic and research resources of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  At Northwell Health, we are committed to the highest quality of clinical care, dedicated to improving lives through research, and strive for excellence at all times.

Northwell is proud to offer a highly competitive salary and generous benefits package.

For further details and opportunities, please contact:  

James Schneider, MD, FAAP, FCCP.  Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; jschneide2@northwell.edu

EOE M/F/D/V

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About Northwell Health

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. Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the bett...er. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

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