Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as the next Department of Radiation Oncology Chair. The chair will fill a key executive role at nationally-ranked Cedars-Sinai. This is an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished clinical leader to oversee innovation and the highest quality clinical care across Cedars-Sinai. The chair will direct all facets of the department, ensuring that the overall strategic vision and direction aligns with the broader Cedars-Sinai mission. The chair will achieve success by providing expert leadership in the following areas: Strategic, operational and fiscal oversight. The chair manages all aspects of the department, including administrative, clinical, research, and educational initiatives, managing a complex departmental budget, optimizing throughput at satellite locations, and ensuring revenue growth through efficient resource utilization and business development. Clinical innovation and subspecialized expertise. The chair ensures the continuous evolution of clinical practice, driving the adoption and integration of next-generation therapeutic modalities and imaging technologies that redefine the standard of care for complex and rare pathologies and positions the department at the forefront of precision medicine. Patient care and quality improvement. A key focus is on ensuring excellent patient care. The chair will uphold prestigious APEx accreditation through quality standards by fostering a proactive culture of multidisciplinary peer-review, patient safety, quality improvement, and risk management by linking them to evidence-based medicine. Research distinction and extramural funding. The chair will define a strategic research vision that accelerates scholarly output, enhances clinical trial enrollment, increases extra-mural and federal award funding, and translates laboratory discoveries into investigator-initiated clinical trials. Education and training. The chair will also have operational oversight of training programs, ensuring excellence in training and education leading the delivery of premier graduate medical education and residency training. Faculty mentorship and development. The chair is responsible for attracting, mentoring, and developing both clinical and research-focused faculty. They provide guidance to junior faculty members to create a strong, robust department. Multidisciplinary collaboration. The chair is the primary driver in integrating and coordinating radiation oncology services across departments and service lines to provide seamless, evidence-based care within the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute. The Chair is a clinical leader who oversees innovation and the highest clinical care across Cedars-Sinai. The Chair provides strategic, operational and fiscal oversight for the administration, clinical, research, and education agendas and programs within the Radiation Oncology Department. The Chair will further cultivate a culture of innovation and collaboration which defines a strategic research vision for Radiation Oncology in the spirit of Cedars-Sinai’s interdisciplinary research environment. They will be expected to actively support and promote patient safety, continuous performance and quality improvement, risk management, and efficient resource utilization, all linked to evidence-based medicine. They will attract, mentor, and develop both clinical and research-focused physicians across Cedars-Sinai, fostering excellence in patient care, teaching, and scholarship. In addition, they have operational oversight for the training programs within Radiation Oncology and drive coordination and collaboration to ensure excellent clinical care. They will demonstrate responsiveness to the concerns and needs of the faculty and medical staff and provide mentorship and guidance to junior faculty members to ensure a strong and robust department. The Chair is responsible for actively leading the integration and coordination of services between Radiation Oncology and other departments and service lines within Cedars-Sinai. They are responsible for leading programmatic activities which support Cedars-Sinai mission of quality patient care, research, education and training, and community services. The Chair provides overall coordination and supervision of the delivery and quality of medical care including care provided by medical staff, faculty, residents, and fellows, and for the overseeing and directing the provision and continuous performance improvement of those services. Jointly reporting to the Executive Vice President, Medicine and Health Sciences and Dean of the Medical Faculty (for academic and research issues), Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer (for quality issues) and the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (for operational issues), the Chair will be engaged by Cedars-Sinai as a member of the full-time faculty. The Chair will oversee all department clinical services and recruitment decisions as well as all research and education within the Department.

Responsibilities

In collaboration with the leadership of Cedars-Sinai, develop and implement organizational and service line strategic and operational plans.
Implement and continuously update the strategic plan for the Department of Radiation Oncology.
Develop plans, policies, goals, programs, and budgets to achieve the objectives of the department and fulfill the mission of Cedars-Sinai.
Ensure service line profitability through revenue and expense management, development and expansion and contracting of programs and services.
Improve the competitive position and market share of the service line by initiating business development activities and implementing viable programs and services.
Ensure appropriate provision of resources to provide services, including management of the appropriate levels, qualifications, development and experience of the staff.
Organize and direct the department’s professional, administrative and medical staff, maintaining and enhancing the support of attending staff and ensuring administrative coordination with other departmental leaders.
Oversee goal setting and monitoring of performance improvement activities within the department.
Actively participate in the integration and coordination of services throughout Cedars-Sinai by aligning operational or cost elements for inpatient and outpatient facilities, staff and other resources, coordinating and integrating interdepartmental and intradepartmental services, etc.
In collaboration with the leadership of Cedars-Sinai, define the mission and establish the strategic direction for Radiation Oncology, ensuring the necessary financial and human resources to achieve the agreed upon objectives.
Provide the vision and leadership to achieve superior clinical programs; work with the leadership at Cedars-Sinai to build and grow areas of acknowledged clinical excellence and lead development and implementation of cutting-edge services.
Define and lead the Department’s research strategy; support principal faculty within the Department in efforts to secure NIH and other grant funding as needed to support research priorities; lead the Department in all its academic endeavors, developing and enhancing programs, services, and scientific/clinical investigations.
Ensure that excellent clinical education and advanced training is delivered to the medical students and residents; provide leadership and oversight to the training programs within the Department.
Supervise, prepare, implement and monitor the department budget that encompasses all funding sources and ensures compliance with grant, legislative, and institutional guidelines; effectively work to manage limited resources in collaboration with others.
Ensure the retention and hiring of key faculty and medical staff and lead the ongoing recruitment of world class physicians committed to teaching, research, and clinical service; ensure an atmosphere of support and development.
Participate in relevant leadership meetings and communicate key information and initiatives within Radiation Oncology to leadership.
Encourage ethical medical and financial practice and support compliance activities as necessary.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with external fundraising organizations and develop priorities for allocation of development funds. Develop new fundraising projects.
Oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services for all administrative and clinical functions of the department.
Ensure compliance with State and federal laws, accreditation, professional, and regulatory agency standards including quality assurance and licensure requirements within the Department Radiation Oncology; establish and maintain a quality assurance program acceptable to Cedars-Sinai as required by The Joint Commission, State, and other agencies, which includes a review of the quality, safety, and appropriateness of services rendered.
Develop, implement, and monitor training programs in accordance with the Cedars-Sinai strategic plan, mission, and goals, ensuring the delivery of excellent clinical education and advanced training.
Assume ultimate responsibility for resident and student teaching programs: setting standards for education, maintaining the continuity and quality of teaching; providing developmental opportunities for faculty and attending staff participation in teaching rounds, conferences and advisory sessions.
Oversee the development and implementation of continuing educational opportunities for Department's medical and professional staff.
Where applicable, maintains a full and unconditional ACGME accreditation for the Department’s residency program, as well as other training program standards as determined by the Medical Center.
Responsible for carrying out all the duties of Department Chair as outlined in the Constitution and Rules and Regulations of the Medical Staff.
Monitor and evaluate staffing to ensure enough qualified and competent physicians to provide care and services are available.
Monitor the professional performance of all individuals who have delineated clinical privileges in the Department.
Recommend to the medical staff both the criteria for clinical privileges and physicians to be granted clinical privileges within the Department. Recommend promotion or discipline of medical staff, as appropriate.
Oversee the response to any complaints or grievances by or against the department medical staff.
Define and execute a strategic research vision for Radiation Oncology to elevate research distinction, visibility, and impact at the national and international level.
Drive scholarly excellence and oversee Radiation Oncology research activities; institute effective mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating and accelerating faculty research productivity, scholarly output and the growth of competitive extramural funding.
Engage in quality research activity that supports the Cedars-Sinai strategic plan and mission.
Advance research in Radiation Oncology while creating strong, credible, and collaborative relationships with other faculty and scientists across other departments.
Contribute to the development, implementation, and maintenance of customer satisfaction programs, including ensuring an appropriate response to complaints of patients and/or medical staff.
Recommend and participate in the development and implementation of clinical protocols/pathways as determined by institutional quality and resource management protocols.
Provide leadership to Radiation Oncology clinical quality committees and relevant committees.