Title: Director of Wound Healing Program

Location: New York City, NY 10026

Industry: Healthcare

Occupational Category: Physician

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Description: Hiring a Director of Wound Healing program for a top teaching Medical Center in New York City. The Director will provide clinical care and leadership for the Wound Healing Program. In collaboration with specialists throughout the medical center, the Wound Healing Program provides integrated care to patients with chronic wounds in inpatient, outpatient, nursing home, and home-based settings.

Responsibilities:

• 
  
• Facilitate care for highly disabled patients
  
• Minimize progression, complications, and excessive utilization of health care services.
  
• Oversee the team’s clinical, teaching, and research activities
  
• Guide the program’s ongoing growth and evolution.
  

Educational Requirements:

• 
  
• Board Certified Physician in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Rehabilitation
  
• 3-5 years of experience in care of chronic wounds
  
• Demonstrated leadership
  
• Strong clinical skills including ability to perform sharp excisional debridements at bedside
  
• Interest in working across multiple care settings (outpatient, inpatient, nursing home)
  
• Comfort with managing socially complex patients
  
• Ability to act as a positive team leader and support cohesiveness of team members
  
• Ability to persist in program development within a complex organizational environment
  
• Ability to consider population health perspective in program planning
  
• Commitment to teaching residents, fellows, and medical students