Description

Vice President and System Chief, Pediatric Cardiology

Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Pediatric Service Line, Northwell Health Department of Pediatrics, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Position Mission

Northwell Health seeks an outstanding national visionary leader to serve as the Vice President and System Chief of Pediatric Cardiology.

The System Chief will co-lead the Cohen Children's Heart Center alongside the System Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Neil Worrall. The Cohen Children’s Heart Center, based at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, was established in 2022 to unify the long-standing multidisciplinary teams caring for children and adults with congenital heart disease across the 28 hospitals of the Northwell Health System. Northwell Health's pediatric cardiovascular services cover an expansive regional footprint including Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Westchester, with immediate plans to expand into the Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut. This role includes the opportunity for research, advocacy, and education of medical students, residents, and fellows. Faculty appointment is at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and clinical rank will be commensurate with experience.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate an outstanding record of academic productivity, a passion for program building, and a dedication to cultivating a culture of collaborative, multidisciplinary clinical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee clinical operations and fulfill the academic and research missions of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology.
• Lead Pediatric Cardiology Services across Northwell Health, including setting clinical strategy, developing clinical guidelines, improving offerings and clinical quality.
• Expand subspecialty programs, including advanced imaging (MRI/CT), interventional catheterization, fetal echocardiography, electrophysiology, heart failure, and transplantation.
• Serve as a senior liaison between the division's faculty and the hospital administration at Northwell Health.

In collaboration with Hospital and Pediatric Service Line leadership, oversee annual operating budgets for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology to ensure annual targets are met and/or exceeded.

Ideal Experience

• Nationally recognized clinical leader with a proven track record of mentorship, education, and academic research.
• Extensive administrative experience building and scaling high-acuity pediatric programs in a complex health system.
• Strong collaborative communication skills to partner across pediatric surgery, neonatology, and intensive care.
• American Board of Pediatrics certified in Pediatric Cardiology.
  
  

Pediatric Cardiology at Northwell Health

Clinical Care

Under the leadership of the System Chiefs of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Cohen Children’s Heart Center functions as a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team focused on clinical and academic excellence. We are one of the highest volume programs in New York State, providing more than 17,000 inpatient and outpatient visits each year across 12 treatment locations. Cohen Children’s Medical Center is the only institution on Long Island that offers comprehensive cardiac and cardiac surgical care from pregnancy through infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood for congenital heart disease.

Our 125,000 square-foot inpatient pavilion features a newly renovated interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory utilizing the lowest-dose radiation commercially available, a specialized pediatric cardiac intensive care team, and the only dedicated pediatric electrophysiology laboratory on Long Island. Furthermore, we are qualified to implant the full complement of percutaneous valves and offer the only ECMO program across Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.

Driven by rapid clinical growth, The Heart Center is expanding its specialized care capabilities. We have developed a dedicated pediatric CICU team with APP frontline providers and are currently planning a new, state-of-the-art CICU facility. Our Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation program, launched in 2024, is thriving. The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program—partnered with the Northwell Cardiovascular Institute— is staffed by three ACHD boarded cardiologists and 2 surgeons and is accredited by the ACHA as a Comprehensive Care Center. The division comprises a robust faculty of more than 30 pediatric cardiac specialists, fellows, and a dedicated multidisciplinary care team.

Our clinical programs and services include:

       Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Program – Long Island’s only pediatric heart transplant program

       Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization

       ACHA accredited Adult Congenital Heart Program

       Pulmonary Hypertension Program

       Cardiac Computed Tomography Program

       Fetal Cardiology Program

       Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Program

       Marfan Syndrome Program

       Comprehensive MIS-C and COVID-19 Pediatric Cardiac Follow-up Program

       Pediatric Preventative Cardiology Program

       Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery Program

Education & Training at CCMC

Cohen Children's Medical Center offers a three-year ACGME-accredited Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship training program, as well as a fully funded fourth year imaging fellowship. The clinical exposure to pediatric cardiology encompasses a broad spectrum of practice, from primary care pediatric cardiology to complex congenital and acquired heart disease in patients ranging in age from the fetus through adulthood. With hospitals on Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Westchester, Northwell provides care to a large and diverse population. The health system delivers nearly 40,000 babies per year, accounting for 10% of births in New York and 1% of births in the nation.

The pediatric cardiology faculty provides fellows with the clinical, didactic, and research guidance necessary for comprehensive training in all aspects of pediatric cardiology with many fellows successfully pursuing subspecialty training after their categorical fellowships.

Research and Clinical Trials

The division supports an active academic landscape partnered with the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Northwell investigators actively lead multicenter clinical trials and maintain robust participation in national registries like the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS), the Advanced Cardiac Therapies Improving Outcomes Network (ACTION), and the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC).

About Cohen Children’s Medical Center

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, with over 750,000 visits annually 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 in Queens and Nassau County.

Notable Achievements

       #1 children's hospital in New York State* (U.S. News & World Report)

       Top 50 national rankings in 10 pediatric subspecialties

       Only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center serving Nassau and Queens

       Magnet® designated by ANCC

       ELSO Gold Center of Excellence for ECMO

       Baby-Friendly designated

       Press Ganey Pediatric Excellence Award recipient

*Tied for #1 in New York State

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV to: Rachel Podella, Office of Physician Recruitment, OPR@Northwell.edu