Division Chief of Newborn Medicine - Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Company: Tufts Medicine
Location: Boston
Posted on: December 2, 2025

Job Description:

At Tufts Medicine, you’ll make an impact and build your career, supported by a community of high quality and compassionate colleagues. Every single person at Tufts Medicine plays an integral role in building a holistic healthcare experience that’s accessible, empowering and, most of all, human. Tufts Medicine Pediatrics with Boston Children’s seeks a full-time Neonatologist to serve as the next Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. The Chief will provide: - Academic and innovative leadership, - Champion clinical excellence and expand clinical stature, - Enhance the multiple educational and training programs, - Strengthen the research enterprise, and - Contribute to the national prominence of scholarly work and service commitments within the Department of Pediatrics’ expanding team of clinicians, educators, and scientists About Tufts Medicine Pediatrics with Boston Children’s: The Tufts Medicine Pediatrics with Boston Children’s collaboration strives to leverage the strengths of both institutions to improve the health and wellbeing of the patients, families, and communities we serve. The goal is to extend our extraordinary academic care into community settings and provide seamless integration with community-based pediatric and family medicine clinicians. About the Department of Pediatrics: Tufts Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics offers a wide range of services focused on the health and well-being of children from neonates through young adulthood. - The department is involved in cutting-edge research and medical education, training the next generation of pediatricians and contributing to advancements in pediatric healthcare. - We are active in community outreach and education, aiming to improve child health in the greater Boston area and beyond. About the Division of Newborn Medicine: Tufts Medical Center's Newborn Medicine program specializes in the care of premature and critically ill neonates in a family-centered model of care. - We are the neonatal-perinatal care specialists for Tufts Medicine, providing care at Tufts Medical Center in a level III, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and in the special care nurseries at Lowell General Hospital and Melrose Wakefield Hospital. - We supervise and provide services for our other community-based partners including Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, Lawrence General Hospital, and Holy Family Hospital. - In our network we oversee the neonatal-perinatal care of a system that covers approximately 9,000 deliveries per year, 1,200 intensive or critical care admissions per year, approximately 250 neonatal transports, and 200 high-risk neonates in our neonatal follow-up program. - Our Maternal-Fetal-Medicine (MFM) program is outstanding with numerous interactions at Tufts and within the Fetal Care Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. We perform thousands of prenatal (inpatient/outpatient) consults each year. - Our division currently includes 23 neonatologists, 3 neonatal hospitalists, and 14 physician assistants. We work seamlessly with Tufts’ Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine to ensure that the neonatal and pediatric care across our network is exceptional. - Our division is committed to research and education, continually seeking to improve neonatal care practices and outcomes. - Our neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship has 8 outstanding fellows. While our program is sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital and includes rotations in their NICU and Cardiac ICU, it is distinct/separate from their neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship program. - We have a robust research enterprise with multiple federally funded research programs. Division investigators work collaboratively with research staff in the NICU, our Woman, Baby & Mother Research Institute (developed by Dr. Diana Bianchi), and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). - The Tufts CTSI provides significant research support to the entire Division. Collaborative opportunities exist with MIT, Northeastern University, and Jackson Laboratories. How you’ll impact the academic mission: - Recruit and oversee a growing team with a commitment to clinical investigation and medical education. - Develop and build a vision for interdisciplinary and translational research within the Division. - Advance the learning environment for medical students at Tufts University School of Medicine in clinical excellence, professionalism, and scholarship. Encourage faculty to promote scholarly and academic activities to enhance their own academic development and that of the trainees. - Encourage presentation of QI, research, case reports, state-of-the-art and other scholarship in local, regional and national venues. - Encourage faculty and trainees to prepare and publish subspecialty-specific, peer-reviewed original manuscripts, case reports, subspecialty-specific book chapters, letters to the editor, etc.

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