Director, SICU, NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn

NYU Langone Health is seeking a dynamic, full time Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in Surgical Critical Care/Trauma Surgery to join the faculty at our NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn campus. This position will expand our Emergency General Surgery/Acute Care/Trauma division which currently handles 350 Level 1 activations/year, 1000 Level 2 activations/year, 1800 trauma consults and 600 operative cases/year. Reporting to the Division Chief of Trauma, the SICU Director will oversee all operations of the 10 bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit and work alongside seven acute care surgeons. Responsibilities include oversight of operational, strategic, and administrative tasks including but not limited to quality improvement initiatives, patient education curriculum development, and enhancement of policies, procedures, and workflows to improve efficiency and outcomes on the unit.

Responsibilities:

Administrative

• Maintain administrative oversight of the SICU in partnership with nurse manager and physician leadership to proactively monitor and improve quality and safety metrics
• Collaborate with other departmental intensivists for integrated Critical Care activities at NYU Langone Brooklyn
• Collaborate with Intensivists across the system to maintain standardization of policies, procedures, and workflows related to Critical Care within the NYULH system
• Lead and participate in structured performance improvement activities including but not limited to RCAs, guideline and protocol creation, which will improve the efficiency and quality of care in the SICU and stepdown units

Clinical

• Trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care coverage (nights and weekends mandatory)
• Supervise and provide mentorship to residents, fellows and advanced practice providers
• Generate surgical critical care research. This includes clinical, outcomes, health services, basic science, translational, ethics, education, or palliative care

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn was the first American College of Surgeons verified Level 1 trauma center in New York City and represents the Brooklyn campus of the NYU Langone Health system: a world-class, patient-centered, academic medical center and one of the nation's premier centers for excellence in clinical care, biomedical research, and medical education. Faculty appointment at NYU Grossman School of Medicine will be at the academic level commensurate with experience. Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages are included. We seek candidates who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. The NYULH system is an EOE.

• Board certified or board eligible by the American Board of Surgery and fellowship trained in trauma and critical care
• Minimum of 5 years of expertise in the specific areas of trauma, surgical critical care and emergency general surgery with a particular interest in critical care.

NYU Langone Medical Center is anequalopportunityand affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting andemployment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for anemploymentdecision. We require applications to be completed online.