Senior Manager, Quality and Safety — Cardiac PET/CT

Cardiovascular Associates of America • , FL

2d • Remote

About The Position

Cardiovascular Associates of America (CVAUSA) is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality and Safety for Cardiac PET to lead the standardization and continuous improvement of cardiac PET/CT imaging across its network of community cardiology practices. This role is responsible for the quality framework for cardiac PET/CT imaging, setting standards, building improvement programs, and collaborating with practices to enhance imaging quality, patient safety, and diagnostic accuracy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in real-world cardiac PET programs and a passion for improving quality at scale.

Requirements

• 5–10+ years managing the quality of cardiac imaging services, including 5+ years specifically working with cardiac PET (or 5+ years in nuclear cardiology/SPECT quality leadership with demonstrated ability to ramp on PET-specific quality control).
• Deep, demonstrated understanding of PET/CT accreditation quality criteria and quality best practices (beyond required accreditation criteria) and how to operationalize them in practice.
• Proven experience developing and managing quality improvement programs for cardiac PET, including routine peer review and PET/CT-to-coronary-angiography correlation programs.
• Experience defining and administering quality training and competency requirements for clinicians.
• Strong, practical familiarity with running a high-quality cardiac PET/CT program in a community practice setting, and a clear-eyed understanding of common sources and drivers of care variation and poor-quality imaging.
• 2+ years driving quality improvement across imaging service lines (including cardiac PET), with working fluency in core QI principles and a genuine passion for the work.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50%.

Nice To Haves

• Based in the Southeast US or Florida.
• Prior experience standardizing quality across a multi-site network or MSO environment.

Responsibilities

• Refine, implement, and iteratively improve CVAUSA’s quality and safety program for cardiac PET/CT across the practice network.
• Establish and maintain quality metrics, protocols, and standard operating procedures for acquisition, stress protocols, tracer handling, quantification, and interpretation.
• Build dashboards and reporting for imaging quality and outcomes at network and individual-site levels.
• Serve as the network's subject-matter expert on PET/CT accreditation requirements (e.g., IAC, ACR) and ensure practices meet quality criteria.
• Support practices through accreditation and re-accreditation processes, including documentation, QC records, and competencies.
• Partner with the Medical Director and Radiation Safety Officer on clinical protocol specifics.
• Establish and run routine peer review/over-read programs for interpreting physicians with structured feedback.
• Design and operationalize systematic comparisons of PET/CT findings against invasive coronary angiography to identify and drive corrective action.
• Design analyses using billing and EHR data to understand care quality patterns and identify variations in utilization and clinical outcomes.
• Implement, refine, and iteratively improve quality-focused training and competency requirements for interpreting clinicians.
• Develop training content for clinician continuing education in PET/CT.
• Travel to affiliated practices to assess PET/CT programs (equipment, QC, protocols, staff competency, workflow, image quality).
• Identify and lead remediation for site-specific and network-wide sources of variation and poor-quality imaging.
• Apply core quality-improvement methodology (e.g., PDSA cycles, root-cause analysis, statistical process control) to reduce variation and improve diagnostic accuracy and safety.
• Set benchmarks, track performance, and partner with practice leadership to sustain gains.

Benefits

• Opportunity to improve and measure quality and advance scientific discovery at a national scale.
• Work closely with and learn from physician, quality, and imaging leaders.
• Foundational work for improving patient care and saving lives.
• Mission-focused organization dedicated to excellence in cardiovascular care and clinical research.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed