Medical Director, Interventional Pulmonology - Clinical Faculty

Cedars-Sinai•Los Angeles, CA

9h•$413,054 - $590,449•Onsite

About The Position

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center seeks an accomplished physician leader to serve as Medical Director of Interventional Pulmonology within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. This is an exciting opportunity to build and expand a dedicated interventional pulmonology program, ensuring excellence in clinical care while advancing education, research, program growth, and regional outreach.

Requirements

Accomplished physician leader
Expertise in diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy
Expertise in pleural disease procedures
Expertise in related complex procedures
Experience partnering with fellows, house staff, and multidisciplinary teams
Clinical oversight experience
Program development experience
Teaching experience
Research enablement experience
Technology assessment experience for interventional pulmonary procedures
Procedural leadership experience
Experience in preoperative evaluation and peri-procedural oversight
Experience supervising patient management
Experience coordinating care with fellows and house staff
Technical/procedural expertise
Consultative guidance for complex cases experience
Experience providing ongoing schedules for new and follow-up clinic consultations
Experience ensuring timely communication of procedure reports and documentation
Experience in overall direction and growth of an interventional pulmonary program
Experience developing institutional vision, strategic plans, referral pathways, and regional outreach
Experience ensuring quality, compliance, and fiscally sound clinical operations
Experience collaborating to develop goals and objectives for a division
Experience implementing program needs
Experience ensuring compliance with patient rights, safety, education standards, and relevant policies
Experience participating in divisional, departmental, and institutional committees
Experience participating in multidisciplinary collaborations
Experience participating in fellowship training programs
Experience educating trainees through rounds, lectures, conferences, and publications
Experience mentoring fellows
Experience supporting faculty development
Experience organizing, implementing, supervising, and coordinating research programs
Experience organizing, implementing, supervising, and coordinating clinical research infrastructure
Experience participating in division research
Experience facilitating pulmonology research through collaboration
Experience ensuring compliance with state and federal laws
Experience ensuring compliance with accreditation standards
Experience ensuring compliance with quality assurance processes
Experience ensuring compliance with licensure requirements

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a comprehensive interventional pulmonary service across diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, pleural disease, and related complex procedures.
Partner with Pulmonary Fellows, House Staff, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality patient care and smooth program operations.
Serve as a clinical and academic leader with responsibilities spanning clinical oversight, program development, teaching, and research enablement.
Provide technology assessment and procedural leadership to strengthen capabilities and outcomes.
Support Cedars-Sinai’s mission of quality patient care, research, education, and community service.
Maintain high-quality patient care during preoperative evaluation and peri-procedural oversight.
Provide technology assessment for interventional pulmonary procedures.
Supervise patient management and coordinate care with fellows and house staff.
Provide technical/procedural expertise, including consultative guidance for complex cases.
Provide ongoing schedules for new and follow-up clinic consultations.
Ensure timely communication of procedure reports and documentation in accordance with professional standards.
Provide leadership in overall direction and growth of the interventional pulmonary program.
Develop institutional vision, strategic plans, referral pathways, and regional outreach.
Ensure quality, compliance, and fiscally sound clinical operations.
Collaborate to develop goals and objectives for the division and implement program needs.
Ensure compliance with patient rights, safety, education standards, and relevant policies.
Participate in divisional, departmental, and institutional committees and multidisciplinary collaborations.
Participate in the fellowship training program (pulmonary and critical care medicine).
Educate trainees through rounds, lectures, conferences, and publications.
Mentor fellows and support faculty development.
Organize, implement, supervise, and coordinate research programs and clinical research infrastructure.
Participate in appropriate division research and help facilitate pulmonology research through collaboration.
Ensure compliance with state and federal laws, accreditation standards, quality assurance processes, and licensure requirements.