The Florida Cardiologist’s Advocate™.
A New York private search firm representing seasoned cardiologists for leading Florida hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers. Permanent placement. By introduction. In confidence.
Interventional · Electrophysiology · Structural · Advanced Heart Failure · Non-invasive · Adult Congenital · Imaging
Every conversation in confidence
We represent the cardiologist.
Most firms in this category work for the hospital. They are paid by the buyer to fill the cath-lab call schedule or the EP block. Fast. We invert that. Northgate™ works for the cardiologist, who is the rarer asset and the one whose career carries the longest tail.
Florida is the country’s second-largest state by population and one of the oldest by median age. Cardiology demand has been outpacing supply for a decade and is forecast to keep doing so through the early 2030s. The institutions hiring are not abstractions. Cleveland Clinic Florida. AdventHealth. Baptist Health South Florida. BayCare. Tampa General and USF. Orlando Health. Lee Health. Memorial Healthcare System. UF Health Shands. The University of Miami and Jackson. HCA East and West Florida divisions.
Add in the practical reality: Florida has no state income tax. A move from a high-tax state can mean six to ten percent more take-home before anyone negotiates the offer. The seasonal patient base shifts volume; the hurricane months change how a department thinks about call. We know what to listen for in the conversation.
A partner leads the conversation from the first private call to the signed offer. Your name does not leave this office without your written sign-off.
Quietly, from active engagements this year.
- Interventional, employed
- Base packages clearing $700K to $850K at large Florida systems for STEMI-call coverage; full comp materially higher with wRVU and procedural quality bonus.
- Electrophysiology, private
- Senior EP partner-track comp running above academic equivalents, with device-clinic economics often the larger lever than the base.
- Structural Heart
- Program-leadership packages at growth-stage centers routinely include structural-imaging block time, lab time guarantee, and a written volume-growth plan.
- Advanced Heart Failure
- Protected non-clinical time and MCS volume drive offers more than dollars; UNOS-allocation experience and shock-team integration increasingly written in.
- Non-invasive & imaging
- More compressed under employed-model schedules; the conversation moves to quality of practice, outpatient-only models, and protected reading time.
- Florida tax posture
- No state income tax. A move from a high-tax state typically translates to six to ten percent more take-home before any offer construction.
More detail in The 2026 Compensation Notes, the firm’s annual specialty-by-specialty supplement on offers we have seen close.
The rooms we work in.
The institutions that engage Northgate™ for Florida cardiology searches. The list runs from quaternary academic to private partnership.
- i Cleveland Clinic Florida
- ii AdventHealth
- iii Baptist Health South Florida
- iv BayCare
- v Tampa General & USF Health
- vi Orlando Health
- vii Lee Health
- viii Memorial Healthcare System
- ix UF Health Shands
- x University of Miami & Jackson Health
- xi HCA Florida (East & West Divisions)
- xii Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
- xiii Cardiology Private Groups
- xiv PE-Backed Cardiology Platforms
One partner. From the first call to the signed offer.
A search begins with a real conversation. Not a screening call. We want to know what kind of practice you actually want, what your family needs, where your spouse’s career has to live, what you have already turned down, and why.
The partner who pitches the search is the partner running it. No handoffs. No rotating cast of recruiters.
Northgate™ is paid by the hiring institution. Never by you. Every conversation is held in confidence. There is no obligation on either side.
Tell us, in confidence.
A partner will be in touch within 24 hours.