Endocrinologist - Florida, United States - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Description

Title:

Endocrinologist

Company:

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Department:

Department of Internal Medicine - Endocrinology

Time Type:

Full time

Weekly Hours:

40

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Summary:

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, is seeking a faculty member to join the division of Endocrine Oncology under the Department of Internal Medicine. The appointment may be at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor level, depending on qualifications. As part of the Endocrine team, you will partner with other faculty a dedicated mid-level provider and a diabetes educator. The team supports both the outpatient and inpatient needs of Roswell Park patients with a multitude of endocrine diseases. Endocrinologists will provide expertise in the diagnosis and management of endocrine disorders in an oncology population. The practice will include patients with cancer and general endocrinology disorders and patients with endocrine complications related to the underlying cancer or to cancer therapy. A specific area of clinical and research interest relates to endocrine complications of cancer immunotherapy. Endocrinologists will be part of a multidisciplinary team along with medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists and pathologists to provide expert diagnosis and therapy for endocrine malignancies. We are particularly interested in recruiting faculty with clinical and/or laboratory research interest in endocrine tumors and/or endocrine complications of cancer therapy. The successful candidates will be recommended for a faculty position in the Endocrinology Divisions at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo.

Qualifications:

Required Education and Experience The incumbent will have a License or permit to practice as a Medical Doctor in the State of New York, Possession of or eligibility for a valid medical specialty certificate in endocrinology. NOTE:
Required degrees must have been granted by an accredited college or university or one recognized by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as following acceptable educational practices.

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Welcome to Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. One of the largest employers in Western New York, Roswell Park has over 3,500 employees and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in New York outside of New York City.

Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park as America's first cancer center, Roswell Park set the standard for cancer centers across the country and world to follow. Equipped with the best facilities and the single objective of curing cancer, we have the sharpest and most creative minds working together in the classroom, laboratory and clinic to accelerate discovery and speed the delivery of promising new cancer treatments.

The Institute is recognized by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as one of only 51 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the U.S. This designation signifies that all research, treatment and educational programs meet rigorous national standards and that the Institute has contributed fundamentally to the fight against cancer.

Roswell Park is also a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers. A not-for-profit organization, the NCCN brings together the best minds in science to engineer continuous quality improvements in cancer care, improves the effectiveness of cancer care delivery through the ongoing collection and analysis of outcome data on a national basis, enhances communications and collaboration among member institutions, offers access to the latest, most promising clinical trials, and provides best practice guidelines and measurement tools.

Roswell Park has achieved accreditation from the The Joint Commission (TJC) as a result of its demonstrated compliance with TJC's nationally recognized health care standards.

The innovative quality of our faculty's research has earned Roswell Park a place among the National Cancer Institute's top grantees.

• Over the past century, Roswell Park has been the source of historic breakthroughs in the field of oncology.
• Roswell Park initiated the nation's first chemotherapy research program.
• Roswell Park conducted some of the earliest studies linking smoking to lung cancer.
• Roswell Park developed the PSA test for prostate-cancer screening.
• Roswell Park developed photodynamic therapy (PDT), approved by the FDA for the treatment of esophageal cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, and precancerous lesions in patients with Barrett's esophagus. Roswell Park is now developing the second generation of PDT drugs.
• Roswell Park geneticists created the gene library used to map and sequence the human genome. An Roswell Park geneticist was part of the research team involved in the international effort.

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