Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation – Physician – Mount Sinai Heart – Manhattan, NY

The Mount Sinai Health System Seeks a Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation at Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine in New York City.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) is seeking an Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist to direct the Heart Failure and Transplantation service line across the enterprise. The Director will be responsible for leading the clinical expansion, integration, and coordination of inpatient and outpatient heart failure care across the MSHS. The Director will expand programs for heart transplantation and mechanical assist devices; increase innovation in heart failure patient care, research, clinical trials, and advanced technology; and lead efforts to integrate mobile technologies for greater heart failure patient engagement and health management.

Additional expectations will be to oversee the use of standardized evidence-based medicine protocols and quality metrics to reduce avoidable readmissions, enhance the patient experience, and improve clinical outcomes.

This is a full-time academic position with clinical, administrative, research, and teaching opportunities. The candidate will receive an academic appointment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The advanced HF cardiologist will provide clinical care in the inpatient and outpatient settings for patients with heart transplants, temporary and durable LVADs, and heart failure.  

Position Qualifications: 

The ideal candidate for Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation will be a dynamic academic cardiologist who is a distinguished national and international leader in the field of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology (AHFTC). The candidate must have a proven record of accomplishment in program leadership, ideally with commensurate service on an Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network committee. The candidate must have a proven record of accomplishment in clinical care, research, education, and administration. Applicants must be board certified in AHFTC, and must hold or be eligible for a New York State medical license. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.Mount Sinai offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. 

Compensation range from 700K to 825K (not including bonuses / Incentive compensation or benefits).

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"About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024

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