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Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health is seeking two full-time attending psychiatrists — an Associate Director and a Staff Psychiatrist — for its large, expanding academic ECT/Interventional Psychiatry program, which operates one of the largest ECT programs in the U.S. and offers ketamine/esketamine and TMS services. Both roles involve clinical evaluation of inpatients and outpatients with complex psychiatric diagnoses, trainee supervision, and collaboration in research; the Associate Director additionally has protected administrative time and co-directorship responsibilities.
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Associate Director and Staff Psychiatrist Opportunities in a Large, Expanding Academic ECT/Interventional Psychiatry Program
Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY
The evolving Division of Interventional Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health is seeking two (2) full-time attending psychiatrists: one to serve as Associate Director and the other as a staff psychiatrist. Optimally, candidates for both positions will be board eligible or board certified in general psychiatry, with existing or developing expertise/interest in ECT, ketamine, and TMS. The Associate Director will have protected administrative time. Graduating residents, with an interest in ECT and other interventional modalities, are encouraged to apply for the staff psychiatrist position.
The Division of Interventional Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital, the flagship behavioral health facility of Northwell Health currently oversees one of the largest ECT programs in the country and has expanded services to include ketamine/esketamine administration and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
The Associate Director will work collaboratively with the Division Director to oversee, co-direct, and manage all activities of a well-established ECT service, while also participating in diverse aspects of other interventional psychiatry modalities. Clinical responsibilities include evaluation of inpatients and outpatients with complex psychiatric diagnoses, communication with referring providers, assessment of patient appropriateness for different interventions, formulation of treatment plans, and delivery of the assigned interventional treatment. Key administrative responsibilities include supervising other interventional psychiatrists; maintaining schedules; involvement in performance improvement/quality initiatives; collaborating with referring providers, anesthesia colleagues, and nursing personnel; and ensuring compliance with departmental, hospital, system, and related regulatory policies. Teaching and supervision of trainees (residents, medical students, and others) and collaboration in research initiatives represent additional exciting academic opportunities. The staff psychiatrist will participate in evaluation of referred inpatients and outpatients, communication with referring providers, development of treatment plans, delivery of interventional treatments, and supervise trainees.
Qualifications: MD/DO (or foreign equivalent) with Board Eligibility or Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry. Eligibility for New York State medical license. For the Associate Director, a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience and expertise in ECT service delivery is ideal. Experience with additional interventional psychiatry modalities is preferred.
Zucker Hillside Hospital
Zucker Hillside Hospital is Northwell’s renowned 236-bed behavioral health facility, known for its pioneering clinical, teaching and research programs. Over the past 30 years, it has been the site of multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research centers focused on the treatment of schizophrenia, including a Clinical Research Center, Intervention Research Center, and a Center for Intervention Development and Applied Research. These federally supported centers have provided Zucker Hillside with national and international recognition for its groundbreaking work in the diagnosis and treatment of serious mental illness. In addition, ZHH has outstanding health professions training programs with a large residency in general adult psychiatry; fellowships in child and adolescent, consultation-liaison (CL), geriatric, and addiction psychiatry; externship, internship, and post-doctoral fellowships in psychology; and social work, and nursing and nurse practitioner programs. In 2024, Zucker Hillside Hospital was recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with a Magnet Recognition Program designation for its excellence in nursing services. Zucker Hillside joins the 10 other hospitals within the Northwell system to also receive Magnet recognition as proof of its hard-earned commitment to excellence in health care. Zucker Hillside received 10 exemplars demonstrating the reasons for Magnet designation.
Inpatient services include units dedicated to specific populations, including adolescent, college-aged, adult, geriatric, and women’s (perinatal psychiatry) units. Treatment specialties include early phase treatment, depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar, personality disorders, medical/neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry including Alzheimer's disease and related conditions. Zucker Hillside’s beautiful 22-bed inpatient women’s unit is the first in New York state and one of only a few in the U.S. to specialize in treating women with perinatal psychiatric illness.
Outpatient programs serve all ages and encompass the full continuum of care. These services include general adult outpatient clinics and specialized centers for bipolar, peripartum depression, OCD, early onset psychosis, college-aged patients, clozapine, long-acting injectables, children and adolescents, adolescent eating disorders, and geriatric patients. In addition, ZHH offers partial hospital treatment programs, and a full range of psychiatric rehabilitation services. Programs for alcohol and chemical dependency are available both on our main campus and in numerous community-based sites. ZHH has recently established a Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and an Interventional Psychiatry center offering ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and operates the second largest ECT program in the US. The goal at Zucker Hillside is to promote wellness, prevention, and recovery, including reintegration of patients back into the community to work, attend school, socialize, and live independently.
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Northwell Health
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 28 hospitals and 1,050 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 103,500 employees – 19,000+ nurses and 12,000+ credentialed physicians, including …