Weekend Veterinarian

Facility: NYU Langone Medical Center

About NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health is one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers that includes five hospitals (Tisch Hospital, Rusk Rehabilitation, Hospital for Joint Diseases, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital of New York, and NYU Lutheran Medical Center) and more than 200 ambulatory locations across the New York metropolitan area. It also includes the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, which since 1841 has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history. Our trifold mission to serve, teach, and discover is achieved daily through an integrated academic culture devoted to excellence in patient care, education, and research.

NYU Langone Health is seeking a Clinical Veterinarian. The Clinical Veterinarian is responsible for helping to implement the clinical program of veterinary care in the Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM). The ideal candidate for this position is someone who embraces collaboration, considers themselves a life-long learner, enjoys training and mentoring, persists in the face of a challenge, and proactively finds ways to help contribute to team goals.

Provides clinical veterinary care

• Schedules and/or participates in an on-call, emergency care, weekend and holiday rotation as required to assure clinical veterinary coverage
• Actively manages and oversees clinical research involving rabbit and swine species with responsibilities that include developing and implementing procedures for pre and post-operative care, anesthesia, analgesia, and euthanasia, in addition to providing direct oversight of a surgical OR and related resources
• Serves as an alternate member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• Oversees a veterinary externship program
• Serves as a faculty member within a veterinary postdoctoral training program in laboratory animal medicine with responsibilities including, but not limited to, participation in a didactic lecture series, participation in a journal review rotation, and clinical mentorship of veterinary postdoctoral fellows
• Helps to ensure NYU Langone Health’s program of veterinary care remains in compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, and meets AAALAC accreditation standards
• Collaboratively coordinates with departments within DCM, such as Operations and the DCM Business Office, in addition to departments outside of DCM, such as Environmental Health & Safety and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• Provides surgical and technical support to investigators through training and animal model development
• Helps to manage preventative medicine programs, including the rodent sentinel program, vendor surveillance, and rodent quarantine
• Develops short and long-term plans to help achieve departmental goals, or to support the implementation of new ideas or processes, and proactively identifies and addresses contingencies
• Maintains familiarity with trends, issues, and advances in strategic and program planning through periodic review of relevant journals or other literature
• Additional Responsibilities and Performance Standards
• Is customer service oriented and attentive to others, responds appropriately, answer questions, and/or provides needed information within reasonable time frames
• Makes sound judgments, based on gathering and analyzing factual and objective data; is able to interpret policies and procedures in order to make a sound independent decision.
• Recognizes when help might be needed by others, proactively offers guidance and assistance.

DVM/VMD/BVSc degree from an AVMA-accredited veterinary school

Three years of laboratory animal medicine experience within an ACLAM recognized laboratory animal medicine residency training program

NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment.