Chair, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University and Clinical Leader, OBGYN Enterprise Service Line for Jefferson Health

Thomas Jefferson University seeks a visionary and collaborative academic physician leader to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Obstetrics amp; Gynecology in its Sidney Kimmel Medical College and as the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line at Jefferson Health, a footprint that includes 5 Lamp;D units and 33 practice locations, collectively responsible for over 13,000 deliveries and nearly 300,000 patient visits each year across Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.

Reporting to the Dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, the Chair serves as the academic and administrative leader for the Department and its 33 full-time faculty physicians and 31 advanced practice providers, ensuring coverage of clinical needs at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and 4 faculty practice locations. The Chair will be a relationship-based leader capable of recruiting and empowering a diverse faculty and promoting accountability to develop the Departmentrsquo;s future leaders, while also advancing the departmentrsquo;s residency and fellowship programs and facilitating the expansion of its clinical research portfolio.

Reporting to the President of the Jefferson Medical Group at Jefferson Health, the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line will serve as the strategic lead in redesigning care delivery that streamlines efficiency to improve clinical quality and patient outcomes. The Clinical Leader will provide strategic advisement regarding physician recruitment, retention, and workforce planning initiatives in addition to playing a lead role in expanding clinical research offerings and education programs in concert with clinical partners across Jefferson Healthrsquo;s three operating regions.

The Clinical Leader will work in tandem with an executive-level administrative dyad partner to advance the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line towards Jeffersonrsquo;s mission of becoming a fully integrated academic health system. Driving this level of harmonization and transformation across a large, matrixed health system within a shared leadership model will require a Clinical Leader adept at fostering collaboration and coalescing support around collective value, while driving accountability for meeting performance metrics at the regional level through closely partnering with regional CMOs.

This position will be responsible for developing strategy, guiding innovation, overseeing implementation, and driving accountability and overall progress towards a transformational and shared vision for how Jefferson OBGYN delivers care, educates, and promotes health equity in strategic and sustainable ways that serve the changing needs of our patients, our learners, and our communities.

Requirements for this position include an MD/DO or equivalent international degree, current board certification in Obstetrics amp; Gynecology, and eligibility to practice in the state of Pennsylvania. Candidates must have academic achievements commensurate with appointment as an associate or full professor level at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

The successful candidate will have:

• At least 5 years of clinical operations leadership experience, ideally gained within a large healthcare system, as well as an academic career trajectory with increasing levels of administrative responsibilities, ideally culminating in serving as Chair, Vice Chair, or Division Director of an OBGYN Department.
• A strong record of cultivating academic-clinical partnerships, program development, and educational training programs.
• Experience with the operational and financial management of administering a department, including prior budget management responsibility, strategic planning, and resource management.
• Experience facilitating and promoting clinical research.

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Those interested in learning more about the opportunity may contact Jennifer Rumain, jennifer.rumain@jefferson.edu.Inquiries, expressions of interest, and confidential recommendations can be sent to the same address.

Applicants should submit a single PDF containing a statement of interest highlighting their leadership experience and complete CV. Applications received by October 31, 2023 will receive full consideration.

Thomas Jefferson University seeks a visionary and collaborative academic physician leader to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Obstetrics amp; Gynecology in its Sidney Kimmel Medical College and as the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line at Jefferson Health, a footprint that includes 5 Lamp;D units and 33 practice locations, collectively responsible for over 13,000 deliveries and nearly 300,000 patient visits each year across Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.

Reporting to the Dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, the Chair serves as the academic and administrative leader for the Department and its 33 full-time faculty physicians and 31 advanced practice providers, ensuring coverage of clinical needs at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and 4 faculty practice locations. The Chair will be a relationship-based leader capable of recruiting and empowering a diverse faculty and promoting accountability to develop the Departmentrsquo;s future leaders, while also advancing the departmentrsquo;s residency and fellowship programs and facilitating the expansion of its clinical research portfolio.

Reporting to the President of the Jefferson Medical Group at Jefferson Health, the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line will serve as the strategic lead in redesigning care delivery that streamlines efficiency to improve clinical quality and patient outcomes. The Clinical Leader will provide strategic advisement regarding physician recruitment, retention, and workforce planning initiatives in addition to playing a lead role in expanding clinical research offerings and education programs in concert with clinical partners across Jefferson Healthrsquo;s three operating regions.

The Clinical Leader will work in tandem with an executive-level administrative dyad partner to advance the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line towards Jeffersonrsquo;s mission of becoming a fully integrated academic health system. Driving this level of harmonization and transformation across a large, matrixed health system within a shared leadership model will require a Clinical Leader adept at fostering collaboration and coalescing support around collective value, while driving accountability for meeting performance metrics at the regional level through closely partnering with regional CMOs.

This position will be responsible for developing strategy, guiding innovation, overseeing implementation, and driving accountability and overall progress towards a transformational and shared vision for how Jefferson OBGYN delivers care, educates, and promotes health equity in strategic and sustainable ways that serve the changing needs of our patients, our learners, and our communities.

Requirements for this position include an MD/DO or equivalent international degree, current board certification in Obstetrics amp; Gynecology, and eligibility to practice in the state of Pennsylvania. Candidates must have academic achievements commensurate with appointment as an associate or full professor level at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

The successful candidate will have:

• At least 5 years of clinical operations leadership experience, ideally gained within a large healthcare system, as well as an academic career trajectory with increasing levels of administrative responsibilities, ideally culminating in serving as Chair, Vice Chair, or Division Director of an OBGYN Department.
• A strong record of cultivating academic-clinical partnerships, program development, and educational training programs.
• Experience with the operational and financial management of administering a department, including prior budget management responsibility, strategic planning, and resource management.
• Experience facilitating and promoting clinical research.

Click here for thefull comprehensive position description.

Those interested in learning more about the opportunity may contact Jennifer Rumain, jennifer.rumain@jefferson.edu.Inquiries, expressions of interest, and confidential recommendations can be sent to the same address.

Applicants should submit a single PDF containing a statement of interest highlighting their leadership experience and complete CV. Applications received by October 31, 2023 will receive full consideration.

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnetreg;-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jeffersonrsquo;s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold amp; Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jeffersonmaintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnetreg;-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jeffersonrsquo;s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold amp; Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jeffersonmaintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.