Jobs at Northwestern Medicine

Leads and supports clinical quality and patient safety initiatives through medical record review, data analysis, quality measurement, peer review coordination, committee facilitation, root-cause analysis, and process improvement. Collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to implement solutions, develop dashboards and reports, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve patient care outcomes using Lean, DMAIC, RCA, and FMEA methodologies.

Provides direct lactation and nursing care to breastfeeding patients, including assessment, care planning, education, implementation, evaluation, documentation, and collaboration with patients, families, nurses, physicians, and other disciplines. The consultant develops breastfeeding-related care procedures, applies evidence-based practice, and supports quality improvement while maintaining professional nursing standards.

Provide full-time glaucoma-focused ophthalmology care within a growing multispecialty physician practice. Responsibilities include treating glaucoma patients, performing ophthalmic procedures and surgery in an ambulatory surgery center, participating in hospital call at Lake Forest Hospital, and collaborating with ophthalmologists, optometrists, advanced practice providers, and other care teams.

Coordinates clinical trial logistics, protocol procedures, study visits, patient interactions, investigational medication activities, adverse event reporting, source documentation, data entry, regulatory communications, and research file maintenance. Collaborates with investigators, sponsors, monitors, vendors, IRBs, and research staff while ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice, study protocols, and applicable regulations. May train research staff and travel between hospital locations.

Full-time pathologist providing general surgical pathology, frozen sections, cytopathology with immediate FNA assessments, hematopathology, and AP/CP call coverage. The role also includes administrative, educational, and operational committee responsibilities across Northwestern Medicine’s McHenry and Huntley hospitals.

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, deploys, and supports full-stack software applications. Leads complex projects, participates in Agile development, performs code reviews, troubleshoots technical issues, and collaborates with product managers, designers, and stakeholders. Provides technical guidance, coaching, training, and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers while driving process improvements and delivering scalable software solutions.

Supports and maintains healthcare applications and systems, monitors production issues, resolves incidents within service-level agreements, assists with upgrades and projects, recommends application improvements, supports system reliability, documents technical environments, and participates in on-call rotation. The role collaborates with end users and technical teams to integrate requests, diagnose problems, and maintain quality assurance and systems delivery standards.

Supports security alert investigation, incident response, vulnerability and threat management, risk evaluation, security control optimization, endpoint protection, and security documentation. The role assesses information security gaps, investigates incidents and fraud, coordinates risk treatment, and collaborates with technology teams and vendors to improve the organization’s cybersecurity posture and operational resilience.

Provides technical and business-use support for endpoint hardware and software, including computers, mobile devices, printers, telephony equipment, operating systems, core applications, and specialized systems such as the electronic health record. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, deployment, user guidance, and on-call support to maintain system availability and performance.

Provides technical and business support for endpoint hardware, operating systems, core and specialized software, printers, telephony, mobile devices, and electronic health record systems. Performs hardware and software deployments, troubleshoots wired and wireless networks, supports end users, and participates in on-call coverage to maintain system availability and performance.

Provides overnight hospitalist care at NM Huntley Hospital as part of a 24/7 in-house program. The physician will practice internal medicine, maintain hospital privileges, use the EPIC electronic health record system, and support high-quality inpatient care. The role includes physician leadership opportunities, wellness support, work-life balance, and comprehensive compensation and benefits.

Supports healthcare applications and systems by monitoring production issues, resolving incidents, executing project tasks, assisting with application configuration and functionality analysis, and improving system reliability. The role develops diagnostic and integration expertise, supports end users, follows quality and delivery standards, maintains service-level agreements, and participates in on-call coverage.

Own the product vision, roadmap, backlog, requirements, and prioritization for Ambient/Abridge information systems. Collaborate with analysts, architects, developers, analytics, and stakeholders to deliver valuable features through Agile processes. Analyze healthcare trends and user feedback, ensure quality and regulatory compliance, optimize the product, and guide stakeholders on effective system use.

Maintains and supports assigned application systems, CMDB/ITSM services, and integrations within the healthcare IT environment. Analyzes performance, capacity, business requirements, and system changes; coordinates troubleshooting with vendors and technical teams; contributes to planning, testing, implementation, documentation, and project delivery. Provides customer support, communicates with stakeholders, mentors junior analysts, and participates in on-call support to maintain system availability.

Designs, configures, integrates, and operates Azure-focused cloud infrastructure and hybrid environments. Automates infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform, CI/CD, Git, scripting, and Kubernetes. Monitors capacity, availability, performance, security, and compliance; develops dashboards and workflows; supports application and project teams; troubleshoots distributed systems; and provides technical leadership, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Provides supervised patient care in an endocrinology clinic, including treatments, screenings, specimen collection, condition monitoring, documentation, equipment and exam-room maintenance, and occasional administrative duties such as scheduling, registration, billing, and data entry.

Manages Northwestern Medicine’s simulation center and standardized regional simulation program. Oversees daily operations, equipment maintenance, inventory, scheduling, budgets, regulatory compliance, facilitator collaboration, curriculum development, and simulation safety. Develops facilitator education, hires and schedules standardized patients, coordinates equipment upgrades and vendor communications, and supports healthcare competency training across hospitals and affiliated organizations.

Northwestern Medicine seeks board-eligible or board-certified Internal Medicine hospitalists for full-time hospitalist and nocturnist opportunities across its regional network. Physicians will provide hospital-based care within a 24/7 in-house program and may receive leadership, wellness, work-life balance, compensation, benefits, CME funding, hospital privileges, malpractice insurance, and administrative support. The role uses the EPIC electronic health record system and requires completion of a background check.

Provide general dermatology care to a diverse patient population across outpatient practices in Glenview and Lake Forest. The role involves collaborating with dermatologists, clinical support staff, and specialty referral partners while utilizing services such as phototherapy, Mohs surgery, and aesthetic offerings. Candidates must be board certified or board eligible in dermatology.

Manages the transplant program’s financial operations, including budgeting, reporting, billing, cost-report compliance, contracts, charge management, funds, and financial performance. Develops dashboards, metrics, productivity standards, and process improvements while leading strategic and operational initiatives. Partners with clinical, finance, analytics, research, and operational stakeholders, oversees cost centers, coordinates regulatory responses, and coaches staff to support transplant program goals.