System Executive Medical Director, Neurosciences

Lead the Brain Trust. Shape the Region.

This is not maintenance. It’s legacy.

Rochester Regional Health seeks a bold, emotionally intelligent physician leader to serve as our next System Executive Medical Director of Neurosciences. You won’t walk into chaos. You’ll walk into momentum. And you’ll be expected to do what few can: unify, accelerate, and redefine neurosciences across a system already built for scale.

Why Now? This opportunity wasn’t born of crisis, it was built by vision. Following the loss of our inaugural EMD, who laid the foundation for integrated neurosciences across the region, we’re not searching for someone to fill a shadow. We’re inviting someone to advance a legacy.

The team is aligned. The strategy is approved. The referrals are real. This is the moment to scale what’s working and solve what’s not. This is not a speculative rebuild, it’s a board-backed growth mandate with the funding, teams, and structure already in place.

What You’ll Lead

• A physician-led platform that spans neurology, neurosurgery, stroke, and PM&R across 8 hospitals and 600 care sites
• A dyad governance model built on trust, visibility, and operational alignment
• A growing team of neurologists with subspecialty depth in stroke, epilepsy, memory, headache, movement, and neurohospitalist care
• Neurosurgeons trained in DBS, LITT, RNS, and complex cerebrovascular and spinal procedures
• A regional PM&R infrastructure anchored by the Golisano Restorative Neurology & Rehabilitation Center, CARF-accredited and best-in-class
• Systemwide technology like RapidAI, Brainlab, IONM,and O-arm, plus a genomics partnership with Helix

What Success Looks Like

• Unified workflows and a single stroke playbook
• Subspecialist recruitment that reduces 3-6 month wait times
• Retention strategies that keep APPs and subspecialists engaged
• Telestroke and Teleneuro expansion to rural and underserved markets
• Consistent experience and access across urban, suburban, and regional facilities

Why Rochester Regional Health? We are a $3.2B integrated health system serving 1.2 million people across Western and Northern New York. We lead with data, act with empathy, and govern with shared physician-administrative leadership.

You’ll join:

• 19,000 team members
• 8 hospitals and 160 care locations
• 27 ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs
• Physicians who lead strategy, not just execute it

We don't just talk transformation, we fund it. From RapidAI and surgical robotics to genomics and virtual care, we put tools in place to support physicians who are ready to lead from the front.

Our culture is built on Worthy Leadership and Just Culture, where accountability is matched by trust, and system change is a shared commitment.

Who You Are

• MD or DO board-certified in neurology, neurosurgery, or PM&R
• Proven system-level leader in an academic or integrated health system
• Comfortable with 60% administrative / 40% clinical (adjustable)
• Strategic, collaborative, politically agile
• A builder, not a maintainer

Compensation & Benefits

Your Leadership. Your Specialty. Reflected in Your Compensation.

New York State requires we share base salary ranges:

• Neurology: $500,000–$600,000
• Neurosurgery: $1,200,000–$1,400,000

These reflect the base.
Your total compensation reflects your impact.

This is a system-level leadership role with wide scope, trusted authority, and a compensation structure to match:

• Performance incentives tied to system transformation and strategic goals
• Clinical earnings based on your specialty and practice scope
• Executive recognition through leadership bonuses and defined benefit pension
• Full benefits including CME, relocation, and malpractice with tail coverage

We’ve built the structure.
We fund the ambition.
And we recognize the kind of leadership it takes to move a region forward.

Live and Lead in Rochester, NY This is a city where you can lead a region and still make it home for dinner.

With a median home price of ~$230K and commutes under 20 minutes, Rochester is built for physician-leaders. Enjoy outdoor access to the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario, rich arts and culture, and nationally ranked schools. It’s the ideal mix of professional reach and personal sustainability.

Your Chapter Starts Here Few roles offer this level of authority, alignment, and impact. Fewer leaders are ready for it. If you are, this is your moment.

Let’s start that conversation.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and current CV. Applications will not be considered without both documents.

Contact:
Jane Born, President/CEO
Born & Bicknell Physician Executive Search
jborn@bornbicknell.com
954-600-8029

Rochester Regional Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran.

EDUCATION:

• MD

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: L - Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly; requires occasional walking, standing or squatting.

PAY RANGE: $500,000.00 - $1,400,000.00

Salary : $500,000 - $1,400,000