Chief Academic Officer

About the role

The Chief Academic Officer (CAO) serves as the senior physician leader responsible for advancing and integrating undergraduate and graduate medical education (UME and GME) within the hospital. The role embeds medical education into clinical operations, quality and safety efforts, and hospital strategy while maintaining alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Medical Education Leadership: Provide overall site leadership for Graduate Medical Education and Undergraduate Medical Education programs; oversee recruitment for Program Directors, Associate Program Directors, academic faculty, and program administrators; conduct annual review of program leadership and ensure infrastructure and resources are available to support learner success; chair the hospital GMEC, where applicable.
• Faculty, Scholarship, and Research Infrastructure: Advise and mentor academic faculty in academic appointment and promotion processes; participate in enterprise academic/research initiatives and collaborate with hospital and enterprise research leaders on scholarly activity infrastructure; support quality improvement, education scholarship, and clinical research; enable trainee and faculty access to resources, mentorship, and local processes.
• Hospital Operations and Clinical Integration: Embed education into clinical operations and hospital strategy; partner with hospital leadership on clinical learning environment issues, including learner access to call rooms, transportation, lactation rooms, and food services; ensure learners are represented in quality and safety initiatives and have opportunities to participate in QI projects; ensure learner impact is considered when responding to quality and safety concerns; maintain budgetary oversight of GME programs including both revenue and appropriate expense management.
• Leadership Engagement: Serve on the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of the hospital, as appropriate for role scope; participate in Quality, Medical Executive Committee, and other key hospital committees; represent medical education at the hospital level.