"Department Chair, Emergency Medicine"

Job Summary

Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia is conducting a national search for a distinguished physician leader to serve as the next Department Chair for Emergency Medicine. The successful candidate for Chair of Emergency Medicine will be a nationally recognized academic physician with strong leadership skills, a reputation for excellence, and record of achievement in clinical work, undergraduate and graduate medical education, research, and administration.

A key requirement is a track record of successfully leading and operating a busy Emergency Department in an Academic Medical Center. The next Chair must be passionate about seeking consensus, but not afraid to make difficult decisions or lead change. Serving as an advocate and trusted steward of the department, the new Chair will lead change and expansive growth to usher in a new and exciting era.

The new Chair will be an energetic visionary leader, who is capable of clearly articulating the unparalleled potential of the department, and who leads in a way others will follow. The new Chair must demonstrate transparency, a deep sense of professionalism, an unwavering ethical compass, and strong support for interdisciplinary and inter-professional collaboration.

Independent of the Chair's personal experience and productivity in research, the Chair will actively work to cultivate, broaden, and leverage the scholarship of the faculty, actively seeking out and promoting opportunities provided by the exceptional resources at MCG and Wellstar MCG Health. The Chair will demonstrate passion for the mentorship and development of faculty and fellows, including multidisciplinary efforts that will assure successful relationship building and alignment of a variety of stakeholders.

Ensuring the highest level of patient satisfaction, quality and safety, the Chair will demonstrate commitment to the clinical service needs of the department and Wellstar MCG Health, as well as the academic and research missions of the medical school.

This position is considered administrative faculty with rank at the rank of Professor and on a non-tenure track.

Responsibilities

• Improved patient satisfaction in the Emergency Department
• Lead efforts in working with cross-disciplinary programs such as telehealth/digital health.
• Support and develop departmental education and research programs.
• Oversight of recruitment, retention and professional development of departmental faculty.
• Cultivate relationships locally, statewide and nationally.
• Oversight of departmental administrative and budgetary operations.

Required Qualifications

Qualified candidates must hold a medical degree (MD, DO) or equivalent; are board certified in Emergency Medicine, as well as have additional certifications from the American Board of Medical Specialties for applicable subspecialty training; and are eligible for licensure in the state of Georgia and a faculty appointment at the Professor level in the Medical College of Georgia.

Professor- Senior level career faculty member with at least five years at the rank of Associate Professor or comparable training, background, and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate is expected to be a highly respected active physician, possess dynamic leadership skills and administrative expertise, and to lead in a manner that supports and contributes to the success and unity of the department, the school, the institution and the Augusta community. In addition, the Chair will:

• A highly respected active clinician.
• Demonstrated success in the leadership and operation of an Emergency Department.
• Possess dynamic leadership skills and administrative expertise.
• Lead in a manner that supports and contributes to the success and unity of the department, the school, the university, and the Augusta community.
• Articulate a compelling vision for the future of the department within a highly regarded academic medical center and to the community in general.
• Contribute to the improvement of emergency medicine care delivery with high quality and increased patient satisfaction and experience.
• Demonstrate expertise at building strong internal and external relationships, with a track record of working collaboratively with academic partners, physicians, physician leaders and management teams and/or affiliated partnerships to support the implementation of clinical programs and quality initiatives.
• Be a systems thinker who demonstrates an understanding, innovative thinking, and an expertise with various operating entities of an integrated healthcare system including both ambulatory and inpatient operations.
• Be a consensus-oriented individual who displays respectful courage and is highly influential in their ability to encourage people forward.
• Understand the organizational landscape and ability to anticipate the critical issues, opportunities, and threats in the foreseeable future.
• Demonstrate the ability to drive the implementation of strategic and annual operating plans that ensure people, systems, and processes are coordinated, integrated, and aligned.
• Demonstrate experience in aligning, expanding, and sustaining innovative quality, safety, and performance improvement initiatives that achieve superior clinical quality, favorable financial outcomes, and high patient/physician/employee satisfaction.
• Develop and mentor the academic careers of faculty/fellows and be skilled in the recruitment of outstanding new faculty to build high performing, cohesive teams and cultivate a pipeline of next generation leaders within the department.
• Collaborate across institutions in the continued development of the clinical enterprise to foster and uniquely broaden multidisciplinary clinical education and research innovations.
• Promote an environment of accountability and continuous improvement by establishing and monitoring concrete performance measures to drive achievement of targeted outcomes.
• Support MCG's goal to recognize the value of all employees and contribute to a positive, collaborative culture that leads to commitment to the organization's success.
• Display impeccable values, ethical standards, and high emotional intelligence.