ERG | NY | Pediatric Hematology Oncology | Physicians

Children with cancer and serious blood disorders need a physician who can move quickly explain clearly and stay with the family for the long course of this role you will own diagnosis treatment and follow-through so more children complete therapy safely and return to school play and ordinary life. Your judgment sets the clinical standard for the service and is what families rely on when the news is hardest.

• Confirm diagnosis and risk group and start an evidence-based plan so newly referred patients begin definitive therapy without avoidable delay.
• Lead multidisciplinary planning so each child has one coordinated course across oncology surgery radiation pharmacy nursing and psychosocial care.
• Direct chemotherapy transfusion and supportive care to meet protocol milestones while cutting preventable toxicity and unplanned admissions.
• Build survivorship and transition follow-up that tracks late effects and moves adolescents to adult care without gaps.
• Offer eligible patients appropriate clinical trials or registries and keep enrollment consent and data standards audit-ready.
• Coach advanced practice providers and trainees so the service can grow volume without lowering safety or family communication.
• Guide goals-of-care conversations including palliative pathways so treatment matches what the child and family can sustain.

You practice within a pediatric subspecialty service and report to the physician leader accountable for hematology/oncology quality and access. Partners include pediatric nurses pharmacists social work child life and the tumor board. You will have inpatient and infusion capacity blood-bank and pathology support an electronic record with order sets and protected time for conferences protocol review and family meetings. Program resources are set to support safe growth not volume alone.

• MD or DO with board certification or eligibility in pediatric hematology/oncology.
• License and DEA eligibility and ability to obtain hospital privileges.
• A record of protocol-faithful care toxicity management or measurable program improvement.
• Experience leading tumor board or multidisciplinary planning and speaking plainly with families under stress.
• Working knowledge of cooperative-group or registry participation and of late-effects follow-up.

• Success is defined by completed therapy fewer preventable harms and families who understood the plan.
• You shape protocols and how the service grows not only a personal panel.
• Supportive and psychosocial care sit beside chemotherapy not after it.
• A collegial team that treats the family as part of the care plan.

If you measure a good year by children who finish treatment and families who felt guided apply with your CV and a short note on one outcome you are proud to own.