Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction for the department in alignment with the university and health system partners.
• Steward departmental resources and support faculty growth and contributions to all mission areas.
• Promote and support the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of KUSOM.
• Engender and advance a culture of academic excellence.
• Develop a departmental strategic plan to grow clinical programs, research, and teaching activities.
• Achieve national external measures of reputation and excellence.
• Participate in KUSOM and university leadership meetings and committees.
• Promote faculty authorship of articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
• Ensure faculty and staff compliance with university and KUSOM policies.
• Provide effective leadership and mentoring to faculty members.
• Promote a positive and equitable workplace environment.
• Recruit, develop, and retain a talented and diverse faculty to fulfill the needs and missions of the department and KUSOM.
• Serve as the clinical service chief in The University of Kansas Health System.
• Participate in KUSOM and departmental fundraising initiatives.
• Implement a policy of annual reviews for all faculty members in accordance with KUSOM and university policy.
• Supervise and evaluate faculty and staff members.

Education

• Actively promote the participation of department faculty in the teaching of medical students, graduate students, residents, fellows, and other learners.
• Ensure that clinical rotations in the department are well organized, well taught, and demonstrate a high degree of student satisfaction.
• Ensure that postgraduate training programs (residencies and fellowships) are of the highest quality and continuously accredited by the ACGME.
• Participate in continuing medical education activities sponsored by KUSOM.
• Support the developmental and professional needs of medical and graduate students, residents, fellows, other health professionals, staff, faculty, and community physicians.

Research

• Promote a departmental culture which values and encourages scientific discovery and innovation.
• Develop and maintain an independent, extramurally funded portfolio of research.
• Promote the development and recruitment of clinician-scientists.
• Achieve and maintain desired ranking in NIH research funding to medical school departments.
• Strive for research efforts to be self-supporting and based on extramural funding.

Finance and Administration

• Oversee financial affairs and long-term fiscal stability of the department.
• Work with KUSOM and UKHS to develop annual financial and programmatic goals.
• Partner with key financial stakeholders to develop annual budgets to include sources of income and expenses.
• Adhere to university and KUSOM financial, HR, and administrative policies.
• Provide effective oversight of administrative and financial leadership within the department.
• Design department compensation plans for faculty and oversee administration.
• Resolve inquiries and complaints from employees, students, regulatory agencies, or members of the academic or business community.
• Effectively present information to faculty, academic and campus leaders, corporate leaders, professional colleagues, and public groups.