Assistant Professor of Pediatric at CUMC -Newborn Nursery

THE OPPORTUNITY/POSITION DESCRIPTION

This opportunity to join the Department of Pediatrics at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at the rank of Assistant Professor is an exciting one. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, one of the nation’s foremost academic health science center’s working together with one of the nation’s premier health systems, New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Provide timely and high-quality care to healthy newborns in the busy well-baby nursery, located at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

·       Provide comprehensive medical evaluation and management of healthy and medically complex newborns in the Well Baby Nursery, delivering evidence-based, family-centered care from admission through hospital discharge.

·       Admit, evaluate, and discharge newborn patients, including conducting admission histories and physical examinations, developing and implementing treatment plans, coordinating discharge readiness, and ensuring appropriate outpatient follow-up.

·       Provide clinical coverage for the Well Baby Nursery on a rotating schedule, including weekdays, weekends, holidays, and shared call responsibilities, to ensure continuous physician coverage and timely evaluation and management of newborn patients.

·       Perform daily newborn rounds and manage common neonatal conditions, including feeding difficulties, hyperbilirubinemia, hypoglycemia, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and other conditions requiring close monitoring or intervention.

·       Collaborate with obstetric, maternal-fetal medicine, neonatal intensive care, nursing, lactation, social work, and pediatric subspecialty teams to ensure coordinated, multidisciplinary care and seamless transitions throughout the newborn hospitalization.

·       Educate and counsel parents and caregivers regarding newborn health, breastfeeding and nutrition, safe sleep practices, immunizations, routine newborn screening, and discharge instructions to support a safe transition to outpatient pediatric care.

·       Teach and supervise trainees in the clinical care of newborns, while participating in quality improvement initiatives, patient safety programs, and scholarly activities that advance the clinical, educational, and research missions of the Department of Pediatrics.

commitment of diversity

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Educator.  The University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a diverse environment, and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. 

Columbia University welcomes applications from individuals who may have had nontraditional career paths, or who may have taken time off for family reasons (e.g. children, caring for disabled or elderly family), or who have achieved excellence in careers outside of academia (e.g., in professional or industry service).  The University is responsive to the needs of dual career couples and is committed to supporting the work-life balance of its faculty.  We are interested in candidates who have a record of success advising and mentoring individuals from groups underrepresented in higher education and is particularly interested in candidates who have research interests in subjects that will contribute to the understanding of diversity and equal opportunity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

·       Must have a MD or DO degree and an active NYS Medical License

·       Must be Board certification in Pediatrics

·       Consistently strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with professionals in other disciplines;

·       The ability to create a high-energy results-oriented work environment that encourages colleagues and staff to value each other’s contributions and the ability to share and celebrate success with colleagues and staff.