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Pediatric Orthopaedic Opportunities

Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health

Northwell Health Orthopedics and Pediatric Service Line are seeking BE/BC fellowship trained Pediatric Physicians to join our growing team at Northwell Health. Northwell Orthopaedics is part of an extensive network of world-class orthopaedic resources and is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in patient care, education, and research. The expert clinicians are part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team of high-caliber specialists. As our service line continues to grow and expand, we are looking for General Orthopedic Surgeons who have an interest in Neuromuscular Disease, Sports Medicine, and/or Trauma. These opportunities involve sessional rotations in either Queens or Suffolk County, with the primary location being 1111 Marcus, Lake Success.

As a leading pediatric orthopaedic center, we have a dedicated team of anesthesiologists, pain specialists, neurologists, nurses and technicians ensuring the highest level of care, safety and accuracy in orthopaedic surgery. Northwell Health Pediatric Service Line has a team of 10 board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons who specialize in the treatment of orthopaedic and spine conditions in children and young adults.

Cohen Children’s Medical Center opened in 1983 as the New York metropolitan area’s only hospital designed exclusively for children.  Today, it is the largest pediatric teaching hospital in the region, with over 750,000 visits annually and serving 1.8 million children in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.  It is the tertiary pediatric medical center of the Northwell Health System and the only Level-1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Nassau and Queens, and one of two on Long Island. Cohen Children’s Medical Center has been rated the No. 1 children’s hospital on Long Island – and recognized as second highest in New York State – while earning top 50 national rankings for exceptional care in 10 pediatric specialties, including pediatric orthopedics, nephrology, urology, pulmonology and lung surgery, cancer, neonatology, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and behavioral health according to US News & World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Children’s Hospitals. As the largest provider of pediatric health services in the state, Cohen Children’s has been ranked among the nation’s top children’s hospitals by US News for 15 consecutive years. Please find more information about the department of Pediatrics in this video: https://youtu.be/IqH03O4r0ZA

Why join us? Northwell Health includes 21 award-winning hospitals and more than 750 community-based practice locations throughout Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester. Northwell is the most awarded health system in all of New York, and home to the #1 hospital in the state – North Shore University Hospital* (NSUH) – according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Hospital Rankings survey. Additionally, six Northwell hospitals earned top 50 national rankings across 39 medical specialties, with nine hospitals ranked among the best in the state. We are NYS largest health care provider and private employer. Our mission is to redefine patient care and the way it is provided. Are you Made for this?

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

For further details or to apply, please email Lindsay Appelman, Senior Physician Recruiter at lappelman@northwell.edu.

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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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