UTHealth Houston
Chief, Pediatric Cardiology and Executive Co-Director, Children’s Heart Instit
UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, United States,
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, a leading academic health center, invites applications and nominations for the position of Chief, Pediatric Cardiology and Executive Co-Director, Children’s Heart Institute. The Children’s Heart Institute is seeking an established leader in pediatric cardiology with established leadership experience and excellence in clinical, research, and education. This is a unique opportunity to lead the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and co-lead the Children’s Heart Institute.
POSITION KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Reporting to the Office of the President, the Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, and Executive Co-Director, Children’s Heart Institute will provide vision, leadership, and innovation to the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the Children’s Heart Institute. The Chief will work closely with the other Executive Co-Directors of the Children’s Heart Institute, leadership, faculty, and staff, and is responsible for the division’s overall clinical, academic, research, and administrative activities.
The new Chief will apply a robust and proven commitment to excellence in delivery of medical care, education, research, and advocacy. With responsibility for all clinical, educational, research, and operational functioning within the division, the Chief will oversee or have direct involvement with budgeting, staff management, patient services, and other functions relevant to effective division management.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning and Leadership
Provides clinical supervision of medical services and assures appropriateness, quality, and safety of patient care within the division.
Maintains program accreditations, ensuring that the service meets or exceeds local and national standards of outcome performance.
Develops and fulfills goals for clinical services with all hospital partners.
Assures appropriate supervision and engaged instruction of trainees and allied health professionals in the provision of clinical care.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff provide care that reflects best practice standards and current advances within the discipline; responsible for ensuring that clinical activities are compliant with governmental, societal, and hospital regulations.
Assigns clinical coverage to ensure timely access for patients and their consulting physicians in the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
Oversees the distribution of clinical work in a transparent, reliable model to divisional faculty to ensure clinical coverage needs are met.
Participates in practice management activities to optimize scheduling, clinical workflow, and utilization of allied health professionals.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff comply with hospital policies for timely completion of medical records.
Optimizes clinical productivity standards concerning national benchmarks and clinical FTE status.
Participates in quality assurance efforts, patient safety initiatives, and other hospital-based programs as requested.
Ensures that divisional faculty communicate with patients, families, referring clinicians, colleagues, and staff in a courteous, professional manner.
Clinical Care
Provides clinical supervision of medical services and assures appropriateness, quality, and safety of patient care within the division.
Maintains program accreditation, ensuring that the service meets or exceeds local and national standards of outcome performance.
Develops and fulfills goals for clinical services with all hospital partners.
Assures appropriate supervision and engaged instruction of trainees and allied health professionals in the provision of clinical care.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff provide care that reflects best practice standards and current advances within the discipline.
Assigns clinical coverage to ensure timely access for patients and their consulting physicians in the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
Oversees the distribution of clinical work in a transparent, reliable model to divisional faculty to ensure clinical coverage needs are met.
Participates in practice management activities to optimize scheduling, clinical workflow, and utilization of allied health professionals.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff comply with hospital policies for timely completion of medical records.
Optimizes clinical productivity standards concerning national benchmarks and clinical FTE status.
Participates in quality assurance efforts, patient safety initiatives, and other hospital-based programs as requested.
Ensures that divisional faculty communicate with patients, families, referring clinicians, colleagues, and staff in a courteous, professional manner.
Divisional Financial Health & Growth Strategies
Works in partnership with other Executive Co-Directors of the Children’s Heart Institute, to develop and implement the annual and long-range budgets of the Institute and the division.
In partnership with the Executive Co-Directors, strengthen the Institute’s financial health.
Assures program effectiveness and impact across clinical care, education, research, and advocacy.
Grows the program through enhancing patient access and building strong relationships within the referral community.
Develops three-year growth and recruitment strategy.
Teaching, Mentoring, and Faculty Development
Promotes teaching by providing leadership for and participation in the education of medical students, fellows, residents, nursing, and medical staff.
Mentors faculty and leverages institutional resources to develop and implement objectives for faculty career development.
Defines and communicates expectations for faculty for participation in both clinical education and scholarly activity.
Develops a quality-assurance, peer-review program to assess divisional and individual clinician performance.
Performs a variety of staff management functions including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, and counseling assigned management, clinical, and support staff.
Research
Utilizes protected time to enhance personal research program and develop a research program for the Institute.
Oversees allocated laboratory space for current faculty members and those research faculty to be recruited.
Raises funds to support research efforts including the pursuit of federal and state grants.
QUALIFICATIONS:
MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent with a robust record of professional leadership roles in an academic institution.
American Board Certification in Pediatrics with a sub-specialty certification in Pediatric Cardiology required.
Must have or be able to obtain an unrestricted medical license in the state of Texas.
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POSITION KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Reporting to the Office of the President, the Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, and Executive Co-Director, Children’s Heart Institute will provide vision, leadership, and innovation to the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the Children’s Heart Institute. The Chief will work closely with the other Executive Co-Directors of the Children’s Heart Institute, leadership, faculty, and staff, and is responsible for the division’s overall clinical, academic, research, and administrative activities.
The new Chief will apply a robust and proven commitment to excellence in delivery of medical care, education, research, and advocacy. With responsibility for all clinical, educational, research, and operational functioning within the division, the Chief will oversee or have direct involvement with budgeting, staff management, patient services, and other functions relevant to effective division management.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning and Leadership
Provides clinical supervision of medical services and assures appropriateness, quality, and safety of patient care within the division.
Maintains program accreditations, ensuring that the service meets or exceeds local and national standards of outcome performance.
Develops and fulfills goals for clinical services with all hospital partners.
Assures appropriate supervision and engaged instruction of trainees and allied health professionals in the provision of clinical care.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff provide care that reflects best practice standards and current advances within the discipline; responsible for ensuring that clinical activities are compliant with governmental, societal, and hospital regulations.
Assigns clinical coverage to ensure timely access for patients and their consulting physicians in the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
Oversees the distribution of clinical work in a transparent, reliable model to divisional faculty to ensure clinical coverage needs are met.
Participates in practice management activities to optimize scheduling, clinical workflow, and utilization of allied health professionals.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff comply with hospital policies for timely completion of medical records.
Optimizes clinical productivity standards concerning national benchmarks and clinical FTE status.
Participates in quality assurance efforts, patient safety initiatives, and other hospital-based programs as requested.
Ensures that divisional faculty communicate with patients, families, referring clinicians, colleagues, and staff in a courteous, professional manner.
Clinical Care
Provides clinical supervision of medical services and assures appropriateness, quality, and safety of patient care within the division.
Maintains program accreditation, ensuring that the service meets or exceeds local and national standards of outcome performance.
Develops and fulfills goals for clinical services with all hospital partners.
Assures appropriate supervision and engaged instruction of trainees and allied health professionals in the provision of clinical care.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff provide care that reflects best practice standards and current advances within the discipline.
Assigns clinical coverage to ensure timely access for patients and their consulting physicians in the inpatient and ambulatory setting.
Oversees the distribution of clinical work in a transparent, reliable model to divisional faculty to ensure clinical coverage needs are met.
Participates in practice management activities to optimize scheduling, clinical workflow, and utilization of allied health professionals.
Ensures that divisional faculty and staff comply with hospital policies for timely completion of medical records.
Optimizes clinical productivity standards concerning national benchmarks and clinical FTE status.
Participates in quality assurance efforts, patient safety initiatives, and other hospital-based programs as requested.
Ensures that divisional faculty communicate with patients, families, referring clinicians, colleagues, and staff in a courteous, professional manner.
Divisional Financial Health & Growth Strategies
Works in partnership with other Executive Co-Directors of the Children’s Heart Institute, to develop and implement the annual and long-range budgets of the Institute and the division.
In partnership with the Executive Co-Directors, strengthen the Institute’s financial health.
Assures program effectiveness and impact across clinical care, education, research, and advocacy.
Grows the program through enhancing patient access and building strong relationships within the referral community.
Develops three-year growth and recruitment strategy.
Teaching, Mentoring, and Faculty Development
Promotes teaching by providing leadership for and participation in the education of medical students, fellows, residents, nursing, and medical staff.
Mentors faculty and leverages institutional resources to develop and implement objectives for faculty career development.
Defines and communicates expectations for faculty for participation in both clinical education and scholarly activity.
Develops a quality-assurance, peer-review program to assess divisional and individual clinician performance.
Performs a variety of staff management functions including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, and counseling assigned management, clinical, and support staff.
Research
Utilizes protected time to enhance personal research program and develop a research program for the Institute.
Oversees allocated laboratory space for current faculty members and those research faculty to be recruited.
Raises funds to support research efforts including the pursuit of federal and state grants.
QUALIFICATIONS:
MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent with a robust record of professional leadership roles in an academic institution.
American Board Certification in Pediatrics with a sub-specialty certification in Pediatric Cardiology required.
Must have or be able to obtain an unrestricted medical license in the state of Texas.
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