Heart Failure Faculty

RWJ Barnabas Health; New Jersey; On-site; USD 450,000 - 585,000; Full time

Job summary

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ, seeks a Heart Failure Faculty member to advance patient care, teaching, and research within the Division of Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension.

The role offers opportunities for leadership in heart failure and mechanical circulatory support, with an emphasis on education of medical students, residents, and fellows, and collaboration in clinical and translational research.

Qualifications

• MD degree required.
• 3 years of internship and internal medicine residency completed.
• Completion of 3 years general cardiology fellowship and accredited advanced heart failure fellowship.

Responsibilities

• Lead heart failure services ensuring compliance with rules and regulations.
• Provide high-quality inpatient and outpatient care for heart failure patients.
• Deliver medical care for patients with heart transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, and short- and long-term mechanical circulatory support.
• Participate in outreach activities.
• Develop and mentor the division's educational mission/program for medical students, residents and fellows in clinical cardiology and subspecialties.
• Participate in CME development programs.
• Develop and sustain heart failure research programs.
• Collaborate with faculty to initiate heart failure research studies.
• Explore leadership opportunities in Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support.

Education

MD degree

Internal Medicine residency

Cardiology fellowship

Advanced heart failure fellowship

Tools

Echocardiography certification

Job description

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is Seeking Heart Failure Faculty in New Brunswick, NJ

The Heart Failure Faculty within the Division of Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School provides outstanding patient care and mentoring and teaching of cardiology fellows. Candidate will have the opportunity to participate in clinical/basic science research as well as assume higher to leadership roles in Heart Failure.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Understand and implement responsibilities related to heart failure services and ensure compliance with all rules and regulations.
• Provide and maintain a high level of quality in-patient and out-patient care for heart failure patients
• Provide medical care for patients with heart transplantation, pulmonary hypertension, and on short-and long-term mechanical circulatory support
• Participate in outreach activities
• Contribute to and participate in the development and maintenance of the Division’s educational mission/program of teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents and fellows at RWJUH and affiliate hospitals in clinical general cardiology and other areas sub-specialties
• Participate in CME development programs.
• Participate in the development and sustenance of heart failure research program/s.
• Collaborate with other faculty to initiate heart failure research studies
• Leadership opportunities in Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support are available

These responsibilities may be amended as necessary and with written notification to you.

Education/Qualification

• Candidate must possess an MD degree
• Candidate must have completed 3 years of internship and internal medicine residency
• Completion of 3 years of general cardiology fellowship and accredited advanced heart failure fellowship.

Certificates/Licenses

• Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
• Training and certification in echocardiography a plus
• Obtain New Jersey License

For additional information about the position, contact Nancy Harbison, Physician Recruiter, at [e-mail]

The anticipated salary range for this position if hired to work is $450,000 to $585,000 per year.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s educational background, skills, and professional experience

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity and Affiliation Employer

About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick:

Founded in 1884, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) New Brunswick, is an academic medical center whose Centers of Excellence include cardiovascular care from minimally invasive heart surgery to transplantation, cancer care, stroke care, neuroscience, orthopedics, and women’s and children’s care, including The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH).

BMSCH serves as the focal point of New Brunswick’s growing children’s health campus, which includes the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House - New Brunswick. The free-standing, state-designated, acute care children’s hospital is a state-of-the-art facility that is specially designed to care for children. From pediatric surgery, urology, and cardiology to oncology, hematology, and pulmonology, BMSCH’s specialists and intensivists provide advanced care for children of all ages—from fragile newborns to adolescents.

As the flagship cancer hospital of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the principal teaching hospital of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, RWJUH New Brunswick is an innovative leader in advancing state-of-the-art care. Featuring a Level 1 Trauma Center and the first Pediatric Trauma Center in the state, RWJUH’s New Brunswick campus serves as a national resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness.