SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
The role involves providing medical care to critically ill or premature newborn infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), performing high-risk deliveries, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary healthcare team. The position includes diagnosing and treating newborns and adult hospitalized patients, performing specialized neonatal procedures, and supervising fellows, residents, and medical students in the NICU.
Key Responsibilities
- • Provide medical care to critically ill or premature newborn infants.
- • Perform history and physical examination of term and preterm infants.
- • Diagnose and treat newborns with a wide range of conditions, including breathing issues, infections, birth defects, and low birth weight.
- • Diagnose and treat different medical conditions in the adult hospitalized patients on his/her service.
- • Work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and perform high-risk deliveries, creating care plans and collaborating with a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- • Respond to all delivery and operating room calls for high-risk pregnancies that may require neonatal resuscitation.
- • Perform procedures such as umbilical vessel cauterization, double volume exchange transfusions, endotracheal intubations, IV placement, arterial and venous punctures and lumbar punctures.
- • Provide clinical instructions/supervision to the fellows, residents and medical students rotating through the NICU.
Required
- • New York State Medical Licensure.
- • Medical Doctor Degree.
- • Completion of an accredited Pediatric Residency Program and Neonatology Fellowship.
- • Board Certified / Board Eligible in Pediatrics.
- • Board Certified / Board Eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Bargaining Unit
UUP
Job Summary
The Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking an hourly/per-diem Clinical Assistant Professor (HS) / Attending Neonatologist, NICU. The successful candidate will:
- Provide medical care to critically ill or premature newborn
- Perform history and physical examination of term and preterm infants.
- Diagnose and treat newborns with a wide range of conditions,
- Diagnose and treat different medical conditions in the adult hospitalized patients on his/her service.
- Work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and perform high-risk deliveries, creating care plans and collaborating with a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- Respond to all delivery and operating room calls for high-risk pregnancies that may require neonatal resuscitation.
- Perform procedures such as umbilical vessel cauterization, double volume exchange transfusions, endotracheal intubations, IV placement, arterial and venous punctures and lumbar punctures.
- Provide clinical instructions/supervision to the fellows, residents and medical students rotating through the NICU.
- New York State Medical Licensure.
- Medical Doctor Degree.
- Completion of an accredited Pediatric Residency Program and Neonatology Fellowship.
- Board Certified / Board Eligible in Pediatrics.
- Board Certified / Board Eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Work Schedule:
Variable Days; Variable Hours (Hourly/Per-Diem)
Salary Grade/Rank
Salary Range:
Executive Order
Commensurate with experience and qualifications
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.
Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu
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