Associate Director, ECT/Interventional Psychiatry Services

Zucker Hillside Hospital/Northwell Health is seeking two full-time attending psychiatrists for its expanding Division of Interventional Psychiatry: an Associate Director and a Staff Psychiatrist. These roles offer the opportunity to work within one of the country's largest ECT programs, with services also including ketamine/esketamine administration and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The positions involve clinical care, teaching, and research opportunities within a renowned academic behavioral health facility.

Practice Info

• The Division of Interventional Psychiatry oversees one of the largest ECT programs in the country.
• Services include ketamine/esketamine administration and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
• Zucker Hillside Hospital is a 236-bed behavioral health facility.
• Inpatient services include units dedicated to adolescent, college-aged, adult, geriatric, and women's (perinatal psychiatry) populations.
• Outpatient programs serve all ages and encompass a full continuum of care, including 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.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, co-direct, and manage all activities of a well-established ECT service (Associate Director).
• Participate in diverse aspects of other interventional psychiatry modalities.
• Evaluate inpatients and outpatients with complex psychiatric diagnoses.
• Communicate with referring providers.
• Assess patient appropriateness for different interventions.
• Formulate treatment plans and deliver assigned interventional treatment.
• Supervise trainees (residents, medical students, and others).
• Collaborate in research initiatives.

Shift & Schedule

• Full Time

Requirements

• MD/DO (or foreign equivalent) with Board Eligibility or Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry.
• Eligibility for New York State medical license.
• For the Associate Director, a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience and expertise in ECT service delivery is ideal.
• Experience with additional interventional psychiatry modalities is preferred.