Medical Director - Physician - Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) - Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center - New York, NY

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a dynamic leader to join our team in a new transformational, community-oriented center for behavioral health with integrated services for mental health, substance abuse, physical health, and social service needs. Located on the Lower East Side, the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center offers opportunities for leadership, career development, teaching, and scholarship within the Department of Psychiatry and the Mount Sinai Health System. The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center was recently named to the 2024 list of hospitals and health systems with great psychiatry programs by Becker’s Healthcare.

The Lower East Side in New York County is one of the best places to live in New York. This vibrant downtown neighborhood is a popular nightlife destination—its streets are lined with trendy places to drink, dance and hear live music. Many of the area’s museums and restaurants serve as reminders of its history. 

The Icahn School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry is a vibrant community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and trainees committed to discovering the causes of, and better treatments for, mental illness and substance use disorders. We are ranked #6 nationally in NIH funding and listed as one of the top regional hospital departments by U.S. News & World Report. The Mount Sinai Behavioral Health service line encompasses the clinical behavioral health services including the Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai South Nassau, and the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center.

Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center is seeking a collaborative psychiatrist to serve as Medical Director of our 35-patient Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). This role offers the opportunity to advance Mount Sinai’s mission of delivering high quality, compassionate behavioral health care while working in a vibrant downtown community and an academic setting known for research, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, care coordinators, psychiatry residents and other trainees.
• Provide patient care including evaluations, medication management, crisis intervention, group treatment, and disposition planning.
• Supervise psychiatry residents, medical students, and other trainees; orient new learners to the service.
• Contribute to the development of an academic IOP didactic curriculum in coordination with the residency training program leadership.
• Ensure clinical quality, safety, and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with program leadership to use quality metrics and data to guide workflow and process improvements.
• Support program growth and integration with other ambulatory psychiatry services at Mount Sinai in collaboration with Medical Director of Ambulatory Services
• Provide cross-coverage as needed within the scope of Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center ambulatory services.
• MD or DO; completion of accredited psychiatry residency
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Psychiatry
• Current New York State medical license and DEA registration
• Strong clinical, teaching, and collaborative skills

Compensation range from $275K - $300K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits

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• Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:
• Physician Recruitment Department
• Mount Sinai Health System
• Physician.recruitment@mountsinai.org

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The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence. We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care. When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare. We encourage all team members to actively participate in creating a culture that ensures fair access to opportunities, promotes inclusive practices, and supports the success of every individual.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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