NYC Health + Hospitals Appoints Sewit Teckie, MD, MBA Vice President of Enterprise Clinical Operations
Enterprise Clinical Operations guides systemwide clinical affairs, supports medical education, and develops clinical services for patients throughout the health system
Nov 19, 2025
NYC Health + Hospitals today appointed Sewit Teckie, MD, MBA Vice President to lead the Office of Enterprise Clinical Operations. She previously served as the System Chief of Clinical Affairs, and System Chief of Radiation Oncology before that. The Office of Enterprise Clinical Operations oversees the health system’s clinical affairs and operations. The office’s priorities include expanding shared clinical services to improve patient access to specialists, building a sustainable physician and provider workforce, growing its undergraduate and graduate medical education programs, and supporting the clinical services offered by the system. Dr. Teckie’s appointment is effective as of November 8.
“We are fortunate to have Dr. Sewit Teckie on our leadership team at NYC Health + Hospitals,” said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz, MD. “She has made great strides improving the cancer care we deliver to our patients, and I am excited for her to now lead Clinical Operations for the health care system moving forward.”
“I am honored and excited to step into the position of Vice President, Clinical Operations,” said Sewit Teckie, MD, MBA, Vice President of Enterprise Clinical Operations at NYC Health + Hospitals. “Over the past three years, I have taken great pride in working closely with our facility leaders to advance their clinical and operational goals. I look forward to continuing to build upon the great work that has already begun, and I am eager to deepen partnerships with our system and facility leaders to strengthen affiliations relationships and expand patient access, shared services, and medical education.”
The Office of Enterprise Clinical Operations covers five main areas: Affiliations and Provider Staffing, Credentialing and Medical Staff Offices, Medical Education, Shared Clinical Services, and Specialty Services. Its 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), which provides clinical scenario training for providers with patients played by actors; and Women’s Health, which oversees initiatives including the Maternal Home to provide wraparound support for pregnant and postpartum women and the new NYC Baby Boxes.
Dr. Teckie is a practicing radiation oncologist who joined the health system as System Chief of Radiation Oncology in February 2022, responsible for planning and implementation of cancer programs throughout NYC Health + Hospitals. Over the past 3 years, she supported major 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. She is on the Editorial Board of several publications and is an invited speaker at local, regional, and national conferences.
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 and was selected as the class graduation speaker.
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