As Vice President of the Office of Enterprise Clinical Operations, Dr. Sewit Teckie oversees the health system’s clinical affairs and operations. The Office of Enterprise Clinical Operations covers five areas: Affiliations and Provider Staffing, Credentialing and Medical Staff Offices, Medical Education, Shared Clinical Services, and Specialty Services. The Office’s Affiliations relationships provide approximately 6,000 full-time medical staff across the health system through agreements with the Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY), the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, and the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. The Medical Staff division is responsible for credentialing and privileging of all health system providers. Its Office of Graduate Medical Education oversees nearly 350 training programs for over 2,900 residents and fellows, one of the largest programs in the nation. Shared Services supports regional or multi-site clinical initiatives, such as Telestroke and Urology plans. The division is also responsible for the health system’s Specialty Services, including Oncology business plans and new initiatives; Genetics care in the prenatal, oncology, and pediatrics settings; Lung Cancer Screening; the Institute of Medical Simulation and Learning (IMSAL), and Women’s Health, which oversees initiatives including the Maternal Home and the new NYC Baby Boxes.

Dr. Teckie is a practicing radiation oncologist who joined the health system in February 2022 as System Chief of Radiation Oncology. In that role, she supported technological and clinical oncology upgrades at Elmhurst, Queens, Kings County, and Lincoln hospitals. She also co-led the Suspected Cancer Initiative to improve patient access to cancer workup, as well as multiple IT initiatives to improve workflows and patient management. Her clinical practice is at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County focused on head-and-neck cancers and brain tumors. Dr. Teckie served as Interim Director of Radiation Oncology at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst from February to October 2025.

Academically, Dr. Teckie is a Clinical Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dr. Teckie is originally from Eritrea in East Africa. She was born in Eswatini and grew up in Ottawa, Canada and Yonkers, NY. She attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, followed by residency and Chief Residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She received an executive MBA from Columbia University where she earned the Dean’s Award with Distinction.