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American Society of Hematology

Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center

American Society of Hematology, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 11790


Stony Brook, NY -

Stony Brook Medicine

seeks a highly collaborative and visionary physician leader to serve as its next

Executive Vice President, Stony Brook Medicine and Kavita and Lalit Bahl Endowed Cancer Center Director

(Director). This position will also serve as

Vice Dean for Cancer . Stony Brook Medicine is in a period of high growth as a university and academic healthcare system, and this position is an extraordinary opportunity for a physician executive to lead the cancer program into the future and towards National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. This leader will advance multidisciplinary cancer clinical care and lead cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research. The Director will also lead education and oversee the provision of the highest quality clinical care to the local and regional community.

Stony Brook Cancer Center (SBCC) is Suffolk County's cancer care leader with more than 3,000 new patients and 70,000 outpatient visits annually. The Cancer Center includes over 450 FTEs and the current NIH funding of SBCC members exceeds $30 million. The SBCC mission is to reduce the suffering from cancer by providing world-class multidisciplinary care close to home, conducting innovative research, educating patients and healthcare professionals and partnering with the community to reach the underserved populations.

The Renaissance School of Medicine is a public medical school and part of Stony Brook University, a designated flagship institution of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and one of 62 members of the Association of American Universities – the by-invitation-only organization of the best research universities in North America. The School of Medicine is one of five health sciences schools within the overarching Stony Brook Medicine organization, which is also home to 628-bed Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Long Island's premier academic medical center, two additional community hospitals and multiple outpatient care sites.

The Director will lead as a critical element of shaping the future of SBCC. In this transformative position, the ideal candidate will be a visionary leader who desires to enhance research through team-based science, investigator-initiated, and multi-center sponsored clinical trials, and advancing the Center's extramural funding. The Director will have a history of successful leadership experience within a leading cancer program and will have a proven record of building integrated and successful multidisciplinary disease-based programs and leading a broad research portfolio. Applicants must hold an MD or MD/PhD (or equivalent degree), have current certification within an oncology discipline and have or be eligible to obtain a New York medical license. The Director will possess academic accomplishments that merit appointment at the rank of Professor or eligible for Professor at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine.

For confidential nominations or expressions of interest, please contact the WittKieffer search team via StonyBrookCCDirector@wittkieffer.com.

Stony Brook Medicine values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status protected by law.

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