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Associate Director, ECT/Interventional Psychiatry Services

Northwell Health – Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY

Northwell Health’s Department of Behavioral Health is seeking an experienced Board-Certified Psychiatrist with existing or developing expertise in ECT to serve as the Associate Director of the Division of Interventional Psychiatry. The successful candidate will have protected administrative time with a primary clinical focus delivering ECT, and additional activities in our other interventional modalities. This is a full-time 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 are exciting academic opportunities available for all faculty members. 

Qualifications: MD/DO (or foreign equivalent) with Board Eligibility or Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry. Eligibility for New York State medical license. Minimum of three years of demonstrated experience and expertise in ECT service delivery. 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.

Honors and Awards:

• Recipient of the NICHE Trailblazer Award
• Recipient of the NAMI Arnold Gould Award
• Recipient of the Healthcare Equality Index Award
• Designated a Clinical Research Center for Study of Schizophrenia by the National Institute for Mental Health
• Recognized as an “Age-Friendly” hospital by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  
  

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 members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Northwell has been named as a Best Workplaces in Healthcare (Fortune, Modern Healthcare, Glassdoor), America’s Most Innovative Companies (Fortune), and the no. 1 health system nationally for advancing diversity and inclusion (DiversityInc).

Nomination and Application Process:

To receive full consideration, interested individuals should electronically submit a Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Interest to Dr. Blaine Greenwald, Vice Chairman, Combined Department of Psychiatry for Long Island Jewish Medical Center/North Shore University Hospital at bgreenwa@northwell.edu

Please send all inquiries, referrals, or nominations to Dr. Greenwald with “Associate Director, ECT/Interventional Psychiatry” in the subject line. Confidential review of applications will begin immediately.