Executive Director, Inpatient Imaging Services

The Executive Director Inpatient Imaging Services provides strategic, operational, and financial leadership for UCSF's inpatient imaging enterprise across all inpatient adult & pediatric sites and community inpatient locations. This leader is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient, patient-centered inpatient imaging operations & access that meet UCSF Health's standards of high reliability, quality, access, and experience while advancing system-wide integration with ambulatory radiology services through a formal dyad partnership with Executive Director of Ambulatory Access & Services.

The Executive Director oversees multidisciplinary teams, collaborates with faculty & clinical partners and business unit leaders, drives performance improvement, and ensures sustainable growth aligned with institutional priorities. Accountable for the overall administrative & strategic planning and coordination of the staffing, fiscal and material resources. Assists with the development and implementation of new programs and policies. This role provides vision, leadership and accountability in developing, driving and deploying strategic expansion, integration and key initiatives across the UCSF Health system. Ensures alignment across the full continuum of radiology care--balancing inpatient clinical acuity, throughput, and regulatory demands with ambulatory access, growth, and patient experience strategies. The Executive Director serves as a key operational partner to physician leadership, nursing leadership, and enterprise stakeholders, translating strategic priorities into disciplined execution across inpatient environments and has authority and accountability for various health system operations for imaging, including but not limited to optimization of operational performance, access & scheduling, service line development, quality of care, patient satisfaction, human resources, and capital/facility planning. Reports directly to the Vice President of Clinical Services.

The Executive Director Inpatient Imaging Services collaborates with leadership and management in Imaging across a broad spectrum of responsibilities. The position participates in the development and administration of clinical and business operations and directs and supervises inpatient site based activities through management and support staff. Designs and leads strategic and operational planning for multiple disciplines/modalities in Radiology Imaging Inpatient Services across UCSF Health. This includes multiple sites spanning inpatient services, adults and pediatrics while partnering with the Executive Director of Ambulatory Access & Services and other supporting roles. Accountable for the overall administration, financial management and planning, human resources functions, and oversight of fiscal and material resources across sites. Develops and monitors financial, productivity & key performance metrics that maximize efficiencies and economies of scale across sites and modalities. With physician departmental leaders, develops and implements patient care service standards, ensures maintenance of high quality and safety standards for patients and employees, ensures compliance with regulatory agencies, and develops new business strategies to improve performance and increase acess & market share. This role collaborates with the Director Imaging Quality, Radiation Safety Officer, department physician medical directors and vice chair of Quality & Safety, to ensure quality & safety intiativies are implemented & sustained.

UCSF Health Core Services Radiology to oversee the following, which the successful candidate will advise and support in:

1. Operational & Strategic Leadership
2. Clinical Operations Efficiency & Quality
3. Financial Acumen, Business & Resource Management
4. Quality, safety & regulatory compliance
5. Workforces & Leadership Development
6. Collaboration & System Integration
7. Data, Performance & Continuous Improvement
8. Physician & Clinical Partnership
9. Patient Experience & Service Excellence
10. Executive Presence & Stakeholder Influence
11. Innovation & Future State Thinking
12. Other duties as assigned

Key Competencies:

• Strategic leadership & systems thinking
• Strong clinical judgement and radiology expertise
• Change management & process improvement
• Workforce planning and team development
• Financial and analytical acumen
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to build high-performing teams and culture of accountability
• Patient-centered leadership and commitment to safety
• High emotional intelligence and collaboration
• Regulatory and quality expertise