RWJBarnabas Health Seeking a Stroke Neurologist for Comprehensive Stroke Center, Northern NJ

RWJBarnabas Health is seeking a full-time Stroke Neurologist to join our Comprehensive Stroke Center based out of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, NJ. This opportunity offers a unique opportunity to be part of a renowned neuroscience unit while contributing to advanced stroke care, directly reporting to the Director of Stroke Program and the Chief of the Division of Stroke and Neurocritical Care.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Stroke Faculty Leadership: Serve as a stroke faculty physician for the Comprehensive Stroke Center and provide expert medical support to the medical staff, administration, and other professionals.
2. Neuroscience Unit Care: Act as stroke attending for the Neuroscience Unit on Tower 7 at RWJUH, offering high-quality patient care and leadership.
3. Education and Training: Provide stroke education and deliver lectures to medical staff, health professionals, staff, and patients.
4. TPA Treatment Program Management: Coordinate and administer the Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) treatment program, working closely with endovascular neurosurgeons, interventional neurologists, and neuroradiologists to optimize stroke interventions.
5. Clinical Leadership and Operations: Provide guidance on medical and clinical operations, including policy development, professional education, and the evaluation of emerging stroke treatment technologies.
6. Service Management: Oversee medical management of stroke programs, ensuring clinical standards are met, and providing expertise in goal development, budgeting, and operational oversight.
7. Performance and Innovation: Attend performance improvement and steering committee meetings and contribute to the procurement of state-of-the-art technologies.
8. Teaching and Mentoring: Participate in the teaching mission of RWJMS, providing mentorship to fellows, residents, and students in both clinical and didactic settings.
9. Community Engagement: Contribute to the department’s community service responsibilities, including providing care for underserved populations and advising community groups on cerebrovascular disorders.
10. Administrative Responsibilities: Serve on relevant departmental and institutional committees as needed, supporting the Department of Neurology's operational and academic activities.
11. Collaborative Research: Partner with faculty neurointensivists on stroke-related patient care, teaching, and clinical research projects.
12. Outpatient Stroke Clinic: Provide outpatient stroke clinic services, as scheduled in consultation with the Stroke Division Chief, to address the growing need for vascular neurology outpatient care.
13. Telemedicine Participation: Participate in the stroke telemedicine program upon its launch, enhancing RWJUH’s capacity for remote stroke care.

Candidate Requirements:

• Board certification in Stroke Neurology.
• Eligibility for medical licensure in New Jersey.
• Fellowship training and board certification in Vascular Neurology is highly desirable.
• Expertise in advanced stroke care, including intravenous TPA treatment and mechanical thrombectomy, preferred.
• Strong commitment to education, clinical excellence, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should contact Annelise Catanzaro, Director of Physician Recruitment at RWJBarnabas Health, via email at annelise.catanzaro@rwjbh.org or by phone at (973) 322-4364 for additional information or to apply.

Founded in 1884, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) New Brunswick, is an academic medical center whose Centers of Excellence include cardiovascular care from minimally invasive heart surgery to transplantation, cancer care, stroke care, neuroscience, orthopedics, and women’s and children’s care, including The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH).

BMSCH serves as the focal point of New Brunswick’s growing children’s health campus, which includes the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House - New Brunswick. The free-standing, state-designated, acute care children’s hospital is a state-of-the-art facility that is specially designed to care for children. From pediatric surgery, urology, and cardiology to oncology, hematology, and pulmonology, BMSCH’s specialists and intensivists provide advanced care for children of all ages—from fragile newborns to adolescents.

As the flagship cancer hospital of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the principal teaching hospital of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, RWJUH New Brunswick is an innovative leader in advancing state-of-the-art care. Featuring a Level 1 Trauma Center and the first Pediatric Trauma Center in the state, RWJUH’s New Brunswick campus serves as a national resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness.

RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest integrated health care delivery system, providing treatment and services to more than three million patients each year. With 12 acute care hospitals, 3 children's hospitals, a growing number of our outpatient facilities and physician practices, our healthcare system is committed to providing the highest quality of patient care and health education to the community and region.

Our dedication to serving the people of New Jersey extends far beyond the care we provide within our hospital walls. We support programs that promote health and wellness in our communities and provide access to services that would otherwise be unavailable. We are committed to the ongoing improvement of the health, quality of life, and vitality of our communities. We strive to bring the best healthcare to meet the evolving needs of residents in New Jersey — whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Our partnership with Rutgers University creates the state’s largest academic healthcare system dedicated to providing high-quality patient care, leading-edge research, and world-class health and medical education, further advancing our mission of providing high-quality healthcare in New Jersey.

The new collaboration also aligns RWJBarnabas Health with Rutgers’ education, research, and clinical activities, including those at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.

Join RWJBarnabas Health’s commitment to cultivating a team of dynamic and diverse physicians. Our goal is to create an equitable environment in which to work and receive care, to champion a diverse workforce, and to foster an inclusive setting that meets the social, cultural and linguistic needs of the communities we serve state-wide. We welcome and embrace the unique perspectives of our physicians, recognizing that this leads to better patient care, satisfaction and outcomes.