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Chief Medical Officer at Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center

Northwell Health seeks an experienced physician executive to serve as Chief Medical Officer at Cohen Children's Medical Center.

Position Overview

The Chief Medical Officer will provide strategic leadership and clinical oversight, fostering physician engagement and advancing quality care delivery. This role requires a collaborative leader with proven clinical credibility who can effectively navigate a complex, matrixed organization and build cohesive relationships across employed and voluntary medical staff, nursing, administration, and allied professionals.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Partner with hospital leadership to expand clinical services and enhance physician engagement
• Collaborate with division directors to elevate clinical quality and operational excellence
• Drive care model improvements
• Lead patient satisfaction initiatives

Operational Excellence

• Oversee quality management, utilization, credentialing, and physician practice evaluation
• Implement performance improvement programs with measurable outcomes
• Ensure clinical compliance and optimize patient care models
• Monitor quality dashboards and maintain standards of excellence

Team Development & Culture

• Assist in the recruitment, development, and retention of world-class clinical faculty
• Foster collaborative relationships among physicians, nursing, and administration
• Champion transparency in performance metrics
• Support employee inclusion and engagement
• Mentor multidisciplinary trainees and emerging leaders

Qualifications

Required:

• MD or equivalent from accredited medical school with pediatric board certification
• New York State medical license or eligibility
• Minimum 10 years progressive physician leadership experience
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate across all organizational levels

Leadership Competencies

Core Skills:

• Strategic agility in complex healthcare environments
• Excellence in communication and stakeholder engagement
• Data-driven decision-making capabilities
• Change management expertise
• High emotional intelligence

Cultural Attributes:

• Managerial courage to challenge status quo
• Ability to motivate and inspire multidisciplinary teams
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Integrity and ethical leadership
• Patient-centered focus

Cohen Children’s Medical Center

Since 1983, Cohen Children's Medical Center has served as the New York metropolitan area's premier pediatric hospital. As the region's largest pediatric teaching hospital, we provide care to 1.8 million children across Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties through 750,000+ annual visits. In 2025, US News and World Report ranked Cohen Children’s the #1 Children’s Hospital in New York State.

Notable Achievements

• #1 children's hospital in New York State (U.S. News & World Report)
• Top 50 national rankings in 10 pediatric subspecialties
• Only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center serving Nassau and Queens
• Magnet® designated by ANCC
• ELSO Gold Center of Excellence for ECMO
• Baby-Friendly designated
• Press Ganey Pediatric Excellence Award recipient

Location: New Hyde Park, NY (Greater New York Metropolitan area relocation required)

To apply: Please submit CV and letter of interest to Rachel Podella, Senior Physician Recruiter, at OPR@northwell.edu

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About Northwell Health

We continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of the diverse patients we seek to serve; as a result, our Health System is proudly ranked Diversity Inc’s #1 Hospital and Health System. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result, our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do, from education, to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being. For more information and resources regarding our initiatives, please visit our Center for Equity of Care, https://www.northwell.edu/education-and-resources/community-engagement/center-for-equity-of-care. Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the bett...er. 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.

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