Associate Hospital Epidemiologist – Infectious Disease - Physician – Mount Sinai Hospital – Manhattan, NY

The Division of Infectious Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking applicants to serve as an Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital. 

Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1,134-bed, tertiary-care teaching facility acclaimed internationally for excellence in clinical care. The Mount Sinai Hospital is listed on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals Honor Roll” for 2023-24 and our institution is nationally ranked in 12 specialties including Cancer, Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. Our pediatric center, Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital is also recognized on U.S. News & World Report's® 2023-24 Best Children's Hospitals rankings.

The Mount Sinai Hospital consistently earns Magnet status for nursing care, and it is the only medical center in New York State to earn Disease-Specific Care Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification from The Joint Commission. The institution also received a Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to open the first geriatric emergency department in New York City, and its Mount Sinai Access service is one of the largest and most sophisticated inpatient transfer services in the city.

Mount Sinai’s Department of Infectious Diseases is strongly committed to caring for the whole patient and places special emphasis on providing patient-centered care. The division embraces the mission of Icahn School of Medicine by pursuing an integrative approach to patient care, research, and education. We pursue all dimensions of these three components, considering them inseparable elements of the art and science of medicine. 

Participates on the ID teaching service and trains fellows, residents, and medical and pharmacy students: 

• Collaborate with the Hospital Epidemiologist, Pediatric Hospital Epidemiologist, and Infection Prevention Director in the development, application, education, and evaluation of Infection Prevention policies, procedures and practices.
• Provide oversight of surveillance activities and investigations as well as serves as a liaison to regulatory agencies as well as local, state and national public health officials and agencies.
• Provides leadership and consultation to the Hospital, its Administration, and its component medical, nursing, and other staff for all Infection Prevention-related issues.
• Advance the Department’s research agenda and performance improvement activities including participating in regional and national collaboratives.
• Actively participates in and co-chairs the Infection Prevention Committee 
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention-related issues related to patient and employee safety, quality, and emergency management incorporating a clinical, operational, regulatory, and administrative lens.
• Participate in emergency preparedness and response planning as well as incident command functions and facility response to emergent events.
• Collaborate with Employee Health Services regarding challenging pre- and post-exposure management protocols, and participate in planning and roll out of vaccination campaigns.
• Collaborates with the Clinical  Laboratory regarding the appropriate use of laboratory tests, antibiotic susceptibility reports, and assessment and implementation of new laboratory technologies as they relate to Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship.
• Collaborates with hospital epidemiologists and Infection Preventionists across the health-system.
• Communicates appropriately and regularly with Hospital Administration and Unit- and Institute-level leadership.             
• Medical Degree from an Accredited University
• New York Medical License 
• Board Certified in Infectious Diseases
• At least 3 years of experience in adult Infectious Diseases with experience in either antimicrobial stewardship or infection prevention preferred
• At least 3 years of teaching experience in an academic setting
• Must have strong interpersonal, teamwork, leadership, and communication skills
• Must be facile with PowerPoint, word, excel
• Experience with EPIC preferred

Compensation range from 250K to 400K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

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Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits. 

• 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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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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