Chair, Department of Pathology, Mass General Brigham

Mass General Brigham•Boston, MA

6d•$550,000 - $750,000•Onsite

About The Position

Mass General Brigham (MGB) invites nominations and applications for the Chair of its Department of Pathology. The Chair will be a senior physician executive leader responsible for advancing the clinical, teaching, research, and administrative activities of the Department, MGB, and Harvard Medical School. The Department brings together the strengths of MGH, BWH, and MGB’s community and specialty hospitals. It includes 260 faculty and more than 2,400 employees, trains 117 residents and clinical fellows and 73 post-doctoral fellows, and supports a research enterprise with more than $75 million in annual funding. The Department has established common leadership and governance, centralized oversight of clinical laboratories, a unified residency program, and increasingly aligned quality, information systems, finances, workforce planning, and clinical operations. The next Chair will build on this foundation by leveraging MGB and Boston’s biomedical ecosystem to advance pathology, integrate research programs, implement digital pathology, and launch the MGB Central Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory. The role offers the opportunity to shape patient care, discovery, education, and the future of pathology across MGB and the broader field. The position is based in Boston and is onsite. The base salary range is $550,000 to $750,000. The selected candidate will also be eligible for a bonus incentive program and a comprehensive benefits package. Salary will depend on factors including role scope, experience, education, subspecialty, credentials, academic accomplishments, clinical productivity, quality metrics, patient experience, location, internal equity, budget, and fair market value evaluation.

Requirements

Be an accomplished physician and leader capable of advancing the clinical, teaching, research, and administrative activities of the Department, MGB, and Harvard Medical School.
Be nationally and internationally recognized as an outstanding clinician, teacher, and investigator in pathology.
Hold an MD or MD/PhD degree.
Have distinguished academic credentials and accomplishments in research, training, and clinical expertise commensurate with appointment at Harvard Medical School as Professor or Associate Professor.

Nice To Haves

Appointment at the rank of Professor at Harvard Medical School is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the Mass General Brigham Department of Pathology as a senior physician executive.
Advance the Department’s clinical, teaching, research, and administrative activities across MGB and Harvard Medical School.
Build on the Department’s integrated enterprise structure and align its clinical and academic work.
Leverage MGB’s scale, data, scientific capabilities, technological infrastructure, and Boston’s biomedical ecosystem to advance pathology.
More fully integrate MGB’s research programs.
Implement digital pathology.
Launch the MGB Central Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory.