Rutgers University

Key Responsibilities

• • Maintain an active Maternal-Fetal Medicine practice, caring for high-risk obstetric patients while contributing to the Division’s educational, research, and quality improvement missions.
• • Provide comprehensive Maternal-Fetal Medicine clinical services, including high-risk obstetric consultation, prenatal diagnosis, fetal therapy, ultrasound interpretation, and inpatient obstetric management.
• • Maintain a productive, high-quality clinical practice consistent with departmental, medical school, and health system expectations.
• • Participate in the divisional call schedule and provide services at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-New Brunswick, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-Somerset, affiliated ambulatory sites, and other locations as assigned.
• • Identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, and clinical operations, and assist in implementing evidence-based interventions and best practices.
• • Teach and mentor maternal-fetal medicine fellows, residents, medical students, advanced practice providers, and other learners.
• • Support the educational mission of the division and fellowship program through clinical teaching, conferences, lectures, and hands-on training.
• • Foster a culture of professionalism, teamwork, and continuous learning.
• • Participate in clinical, translational, and/or outcomes-based research and scholarly activities.
• • Collaborate on research, quality improvement, and patient outcomes initiatives within the division, department, and health system.
• • Support trainee scholarly activity, including presentations and publications.
• • May serve as Assistant Medical Director of Labor and Delivery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-New Brunswick. As Assistant Medical Director of Labor and Delivery, assist the Director of Perinatal Services, Chair and Division Director(s) in supporting Labor and Delivery clinical operations through participation in quality improvement initiatives, patient safety activities, peer review, clinical protocol development, and multidisciplinary efforts to improve patient care and operational effectiveness.
• • Work collaboratively with the Director of Perinatal Services, Chair, Division Director(s), nursing leadership, and hospital administration to support the strategic, clinical, operational, and quality goals of the Labor and Delivery service.
• • Participate in and help lead quality improvement projects, multidisciplinary initiatives, and performance improvement activities designed to advance clinical excellence, patient safety, and patient-centered care.
• • Collaborate with departmental leadership in conducting obstetric peer review and professional practice evaluation activities.
• • Partner with nursing leadership and hospital administration to address patient concerns, complaints, and service recovery efforts, as appropriate.
• • Participate in departmental, hospital, medical school, and health system committees and initiatives as assigned.
• • Assist in advancing clinical excellence, patient-centered care, physician engagement, operational efficiency, and continuous quality improvement within the Labor and Delivery unit.
• • Perform other duties as assigned by the Division Director, Department Chair, or their designee.