Vice President and System Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Reported by 12 physicians · state cohort · total comp, not the employer's posted pay
Overview
- Location
- New York
- SalaryDr Signal range
- $473k – $719k
- Practice
- Tertiary pediatric medical center and large health system across multiple hospitals · Children's hospital with pediatric cardiac intensive care, catheterization labs, electrophysiology lab, and cardiac surgery program
12 physician reports · not the employer's posted pay
Role summary
This leadership role at Cohen Children's Medical Center directs a large pediatric cardiology division providing comprehensive congenital heart disease care across a broad regional health system, with robust academic, teaching, and research activities. The center offers advanced clinical programs including heart failure, transplant, and cardiac surgery with extensive multidisciplinary collaboration.
What the posting highlights
- Care setting: Includes inpatient and outpatient care for congenital heart disease from fetus to adult
- Patient population: Pediatric patients and adults with congenital heart disease across New York metropolitan area
- Research or clinical-trial participation is noted
- Teaching or an academic practice setting is noted
SalaryDr summary based on the original posting
Posted base pay vs physician-reported total comp
Physician-reported range shown; the employer did not post pay for this role.
Compensation
- What physicians report
- $473k – $719k
- Pay context
- SalaryDr Signal · physician-reported
- Report sample
- 12 recent physician reports · state cohort
- Compensation basis
- Estimated total compensation
This is a SalaryDr Signal computed from 12 recent, approved physician reports (state cohort). It is not an employer offer or posted pay; this employer did not disclose pay.
Employer
Northwell Health
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Facility & Community
- Practice setting
- Tertiary pediatric medical center and large health system across multiple hospitals
- Facility type
- Children's hospital with pediatric cardiac intensive care, catheterization labs, electrophysiology lab, and cardiac surgery program
- Trauma level
- Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center
- Patient population
- Pediatric patients and adults with congenital heart disease across New York metropolitan area
- EHR
- Not stated in posting
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Work Design
- Patient volume
- Over 17,000 inpatient and outpatient visits annually across 12 locations
- Inpatient / outpatient
- Includes inpatient and outpatient care for congenital heart disease from fetus to adult
- Admin burden
- Extensive administrative leadership including clinical strategy and budget oversight
- Teaching
- Yes
- Research
- Yes
- Supervises APPs
- Yes
Visa & Eligibility
- Remote
- No
Source & Verification
- Source
- Aggregated (ym_careers)
- Salary label
- SalaryDr Signal
- First seen
- 2 mo ago
- Last verified
- today
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
Full description
Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Pediatric Service Line, Northwell Health Department of Pediatrics, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Position Mission
Northwell Health seeks an outstanding national visionary leader to serve as the Vice President and System Chief of Pediatric Cardiology.
The System Chief will co-lead the Cohen Children's Heart Center alongside the System Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Neil Worrall. The Cohen Children’s Heart Center, based at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, was established in 2022 to unify the long-standing multidisciplinary teams caring for children and adults with congenital heart disease across the 28 hospitals of the Northwell Health System. Northwell Health's pediatric cardiovascular services cover an expansive regional footprint including Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Westchester, with immediate plans to expand into the Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut. This role includes the opportunity for research, advocacy, and education of medical students, residents, and fellows. Faculty appointment is at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and clinical rank will be commensurate with experience.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate an outstanding record of academic productivity, a passion for program building, and a dedication to cultivating a culture of collaborative, multidisciplinary clinical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee clinical operations and fulfill the academic and research missions of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology.
- Lead Pediatric Cardiology Services across Northwell Health, including setting clinical strategy, developing clinical guidelines, improving offerings and clinical quality.
- Expand subspecialty programs, including advanced imaging (MRI/CT), interventional catheterization, fetal echocardiography, electrophysiology, heart failure, and transplantation.
- Serve as a senior liaison between the division's faculty and the hospital administration at Northwell Health.
In collaboration with Hospital and Pediatric Service Line leadership, oversee annual operating budgets for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology to ensure annual targets are met and/or exceeded.
Ideal Experience
- Nationally recognized clinical leader with a proven track record of mentorship, education, and academic research.
- Extensive administrative experience building and scaling high-acuity pediatric programs in a complex health system.
- Strong collaborative communication skills to partner across pediatric surgery, neonatology, and intensive care.
- American Board of Pediatrics certified in Pediatric Cardiology.
Pediatric Cardiology at Northwell Health
Clinical Care
Under the leadership of the System Chiefs of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Cohen Children’s Heart Center functions as a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team focused on clinical and academic excellence. We are one of the highest volume programs in New York State, providing more than 17,000 inpatient and outpatient visits each year across 12 treatment locations. Cohen Children’s Medical Center is the only institution on Long Island that offers comprehensive cardiac and cardiac surgical care from pregnancy through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood for congenital heart disease.
Our 125,000 square-foot inpatient pavilion features a newly renovated interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory utilizing the lowest-dose radiation commercially available, a specialized pediatric cardiac intensive care team, and the only dedicated pediatric electrophysiology laboratory on Long Island. Furthermore, we are qualified to implant the full complement of percutaneous valves and offer the only ECMO program across Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.
Driven by rapid clinical growth, The Heart Center is expanding its specialized care capabilities. We have developed a dedicated pediatric CICU team with APP frontline providers and are currently planning a new, state-of-the-art CICU facility. Our Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation program, launched in 2024, is thriving. The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program - partnered with the Northwell Cardiovascular Institute - is staffed by three ACHD boarded cardiologists and 2 surgeons and is accredited by the ACHA as a Comprehensive Care Center. The division comprises a robust faculty of more than 30 pediatric cardiac specialists, fellows, and a dedicated multidisciplinary care team.
Our clinical programs and services include:
- Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Program – Long Island’s only pediatric heart transplant program
- Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization
- ACHA accredited Adult Congenital Heart Program
- Pulmonary Hypertension Program
- Cardiac Computed Tomography Program
- Fetal Cardiology Program
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Program
- Marfan Syndrome Program
- Comprehensive MIS-C and COVID-19 Pediatric Cardiac Follow-up Program
- Pediatric Preventative Cardiology Program
- Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery Program
Education & Training at CCMC
Cohen Children's Medical Center offers a three-year ACGME-accredited Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship training program, as well as a fully funded fourth year imaging fellowship. The clinical exposure to pediatric cardiology encompasses a broad spectrum of practice, from primary care pediatric cardiology to complex congenital and acquired heart disease in patients ranging in age from the fetus through adulthood. With hospitals on Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Westchester, Northwell provides care to a large and diverse population. The health system delivers nearly 40,000 babies per year, accounting for 10% of births in New York and 1% of births in the nation.
The pediatric cardiology faculty provides fellows with the clinical, didactic, and research guidance necessary for comprehensive training in all aspects of pediatric cardiology with many fellows successfully pursuing subspecialty training after their categorical fellowships.
Research and Clinical Trials
The division supports an active academic landscape partnered with the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Northwell investigators actively lead multicenter clinical trials and maintain robus…