Vascular Surgeon, Division Chief

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, and Carroll Hospital | Life Bridge Health

Baltimore and Carroll County, Maryland

Life Bridge Health is a $2B+, 13,000-team-member healthcare system caring for more than one million patients annually throughout Maryland. The system includes Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, Carroll Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, and Grace Medical Center.

Life Bridge Health Medical Group is seeking a Board-Certified Vascular Surgeon to lead and help build a division of vascular surgery to provide comprehensive vascular and endovascular care across Northwest Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Carroll Hospital. This employed position combines outpatient practice, inpatient consultation, operative care, and shared vascular surgery call for the three hospitals. The practice includes evaluation and treatment of arterial, venous, aortic, carotid, and peripheral vascular conditions, with open and endovascular procedures consistent with training and hospital privileges.

Within the Division Chief role, the surgeon will, along with the System Chief of Surgery, help to develop the service line across the organization. A successful candidate will:

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the continued growth of the Division of Vascular Surgery.
• Foster a collaborative culture focused on excellence in patient-centered care, innovation, professionalism, and academic achievement.
• Lead and mentor while recruiting and developing future leaders in vascular surgery.
• Strengthen and expand multidisciplinary clinical programs in collaboration with cardiac surgery, interventional radiology, cardiology, nephrology, wound care, and other specialties.
• Support continued growth in advanced open and endovascular therapies, limb preservation, carotid disease, dialysis access, venous disease, and vascular trauma.
• Promote excellence in resident education for the general surgery residency
• Build partnerships throughout Maryland and the surrounding region to enhance referral networks and improve access to vascular care.

• Full-time, employed vascular surgery position serving three Life Bridge Health hospitals.
• Leadership opportunity to build and direct a system-wide vascular surgery division, driving strategic growth and surgeon recruitment.
• Outpatient consultation, inpatient care, and open and endovascular procedures.
• Collaboration with emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, cardiology, wound care, and other surgical and medical services.
• Support for level 2 trauma center for vascular trauma and emergencies.
• Core faculty for a general surgery residency, responsibilities include clinic and OR education, didactics, simulation labs, and resident recruitment.
• Opportunity to help develop coordinated vascular care and referral pathways across the health system.
• Shared weekday, overnight, weekend, and holiday vascular surgery call across Northwest, Sinai, and Carroll hospitals.
• Call coverage for emergency department and inpatient consultations, urgent and emergent vascular conditions, and operative needs at the covered hospitals.
• Participation in quality improvement, clinical outcomes review, and patient safety initiatives,

The physician will participate in a shared vascular surgery call rotation covering Northwest Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Carroll Hospital. On assigned call, responsibilities include telephone consultation, timely evaluation of emergency department and hospitalized patients, and in-person response for urgent or emergent vascular surgical care, including life- or limb-threatening…