Newark, NJ
Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School
(Posted Feb 14, 2017) – DIVISION CHIEF – TRAUMA, SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE AND ACUTE CARE SURGERY
The Department of Surgery at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey seeks an outstanding academic surgeon to lead the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. The successful candidate will hold a faculty appointment at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and lead a highly accomplished Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. The successful candidate will also be appointed to hold the endowed Wesley J. Howe Professor of Trauma Surgery and be the Director of the New Jersey Trauma Center at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Integral to the position, will be the ability to foster cutting edge research, lead academically and educationally oriented faculty, and demonstrate the skills to propel the Division to new heights in its clinical, research and teaching missions.
Reporting to the Chair of Surgery, the Division Chief will have the goal of advancing the field of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery through patient care, practice innovation, research, and education. The Division Chief will be charged with providing leadership of a diverse and talented faculty at a Level 1 academic Trauma Center, for the development of clinical, outcomes and health services research. The ability to work collaboratively within the Department as well as across departments and schools to develop clinical and research initiatives are considered top priorities for the Division.
Top Goals for the Division Chief:
• Expand evidenced based clinical programs to maintain the New Jersey Trauma Center Level 1 Trauma Center accreditation and enhance its reputation as a provider of premier trauma and surgical critical care
• Increased collaboration across critical care services within University Hospital (UH) to lead innovative approaches to clinical care
• Continued expansion of services to support Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery
• Expansion regionally to other health systems to meet critical care and acute care surgery needs.
Experience Required:
• MD with a track record of professional leadership roles in an academic institution
• Board certification in General Surgery
• Fellowship training in Surgical Critical Care and/or Trauma Surgery
• Eligible for unrestricted licensure in the State of New Jersey and valid DEA number
• Academic rank of associate or full professor
• National reputation for success in clinical medicine
• National reputation for success in scholarship and academic surgery
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role for a trauma program, surgical critical care service or acute care surgery program
• Demonstrated experience in recruiting faculty and staff
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring faculty
• Demonstrated ability to develop and build innovative programs
Responsibilities:
• Trauma Medical Director for the New Jersey Trauma Center at University Hospital, an ACS verified, state designated Level 1 Trauma Center
• Maintain Trauma Center Accreditation
• Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery
• Develop a research and scholarship focus
• Mentor and develop faculty
Department of Surgery:
The Department of Surgery at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is comprised of eight divisions and is led by Dr. Anne C. Mosenthal, Ben Rush Endowed Professor and Chair. The department’s training programs include general surgery, plastics surgery, urology surgery residencies, as well as vascular and surgical critical care fellowships.
Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery:
The Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery includes nine faculty members who are responsible for covering Trauma Surgery, Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and Acute Care Surgery.
The Division provides surgical services for the benefit of our patients and professional colleagues twenty-four hours each day, seven days a week. Our state designated Level 1 Trauma Center has been continually verified by the American College of Surgeons since 1991. While the major academic focus is trauma and critical care, we also provide all emergency surgical coverage to the emergency department at University Hospital. All division faculty have their general surgery boards with added qualifications in critical care from the American Board of Surgery. In addition, the Division includes a physiatrist who is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation as well a Brain Injury Medicine. Research activities focus heavily on measuring patient outcomes after injury, cost-effective medical care, palliative care, surgical infections, critical care and surgical education. The robust educational program includes daily morning report conference, weekly trauma-case conferences, and various outreach conferences to hospitals and public forums. There is an active and vibrant trauma outreach and prevention program staffed by an experienced coordinator.
Trauma Surgery:
Components of the trauma surgery program include the Trauma Admitting Area, OR, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, inpatient units as well as the outpatient clinic. The trauma program is recognized as an integral and nationally known health care delivery service of University Hospital. The Division Chief is a member of the hospital’s joint Operative Committee and has a reporting structure to the highest level of hospital administration. This multidisciplinary program crosses many specialty lines dedicated to the care of the injured within the hospital's community. We remain the only Level 1 Trauma Center for northern New Jersey and one of the three Level I centers in the state.
Our trauma service is staffed 24/7 by faculty members of the Division and the Division Chief will assume the role of Trauma Medical Director. The service is also supported by six advanced practice providers. The trauma service responds to over 3,000 trauma activations per year and over 2,000 hospital admissions with approximately 25% penetrating trauma. The patient population served is ethnically and demographically diverse. There is in-house attending coverage at all times. This plan ensures that any injured patient requiring immediate surgical treatment will have access to the highest level of professional care we can offer.
Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU):
The Division provides service coverage in The University Hospital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit. The SICU is a closed unit that provides critical care trauma, general surgery and surgical subspecialists at UH including the liver transplant team. High level care is delivered in a multidisciplinary fashion maintaining a close working relationship with Critical Care Pharmacy as well as other ancillary services. There is in-house resident and faculty coverage of the SICU at all times.
The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is a one year ACGME accredited fellowship that has been in existence since 1984. The fellows also have a large role in the trauma program and, in addition to the SICU and Trauma Service, offers a number of rotations such as burns (at St. Barnabas, an ABA approved burn center in Livingston, NJ), and includes one month of research. A new exchange rotation with the ACGME approved critical care Fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is planned for the 2017 academic year. The Surgical Critical Care Fellow is required to have completed an ACGME accredited program in general surgery.
The SICU is a 14-bed unit that admits all surgical cases. The SICU service is responsible for the patient’s care while in the SICU. There are approximately 650 SICU patients admitted annually. The SICU is currently directed by the SICU Medical Director, Dr. Leslie Tyrie who is also the fellowship director.
Acute Care Surgery (ACS):
Emergency general surgery coverage, including emergency department and in-hospital consultations, is provided 24/7 by the members of the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. The ACS service is further supported by advanced practice providers and residents. Quality improvement and standardization of care is a priority for this service.
The Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is a public, academic institution dedicated to leadership and excellence.
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter; a current CV; summary of present and future clinical and research interests and plans; complete contact information for three references; and your complete contact information to: Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS, Professor and Benjamin F. Rush, Jr., MD Endowed Chair, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Department of Surgery, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB G506, Newark, NJ 07103, Ph: 973-972-5045, Fax: 973-972-6803; Email: carteran@uhnj.org
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How to apply
Please email a cover letter and CV to Dr. Anne Mosenthal, Chair Department of Surgery, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in care of Ms. Annette Carter at carteran@uhnj.org
Location
185 South Orange Avenue, MSB G506
Newark, NJ 07103
United States
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