Division Head, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine – Division of Anatomic Pathology

Leadership Accountabilities

The Division Head has the opportunity to lead and have impact in the following ways:

• Develop a strategic vision and lead the Division
• Support and foster excellence in patient care
• Recruit, retain, and develop distinguished faculty
• Strengthen the culture of academic and research excellence
• Cultivate educational opportunities

Essential Job Functions

Strategic planning and leadership

• Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the division in its diverse organizational settings.
• Establish and maintain high morale of the division by fostering and enhancing collaboration and professionalism among members of the division and external partners.
• Participates as a member of the Division Head/Program Directors group and meets routinely with the department leadership as appropriate.
• Advocates for the programs and resources necessary to optimize outcomes of Divisional priorities and the pediatric patients the Division serves.

Divisional financial health

• Develop and implement the annual and long-range budgets of the division. Assure program effectiveness and impact across the four domains of clinical care, advocacy, research, and education.

Clinical care

• Provide clinical supervision of medical services and assure appropriateness, quality, and safety of patient care within the division, and assure appropriate supervision of trainees.
• Maintain program accreditation, ensuring that the service meets or exceeds local and national standards of outcome performance.

Research

• Promote substantive research that leverages partnership opportunities within and outside the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and effectively integrates and translates the research platform with improved clinical care.

Teaching, mentoring and faculty development

• Promote teaching by providing leadership for and participation in the education of medical students, residents, fellows, and staff. Provide leadership in area of expertise to the department and its affiliated institutions.
• Mentor faculty, ensuring that each member of the division/program receives an annual performance evaluation applicable to his/her job description. Leverage Departmental resources to develop and implement objectives for faculty career development.
• Affirms the participation of the division faculty in the general educational programs of the department including instructing medical students, precepting residents and importantly increase the number and quality of fellow applicants consistent with the goals of the Dean of the Medical School, and by attending education conferences and participating in committees as requested.

Personal and Professional Attributes

• An engaging and enthusiastic leadership style built upon a spirit of collaboration and teamwork, and support of others
• An innate ability to set high standards and continuously strive for collective excellence in clinical care, advocacy, research, and education
• The vision to create and implement a strategy to further build multidisciplinary relationships across a complex organization that encourages and develops collaborative research
• An ability to recruit and inspire a varied group of physician scientists and clinicians
• A diplomatic, persuasive, and credible presence that relates well to a wide variety of audiences
• Decision making processes driven by the highest personal and professional integrity
• An influencing management style that invites creative problem solving
• An open and transparent communication style that welcomes difference
• A creative and innovative thinker, comfortable with thinking outside the box
• Skillful, balanced, and measured negotiation skills that support collegiality
• An ability to balance accountability while supporting a culture of risk taking and growth

Requirements

• Qualified candidates will possess an MD or MD/PhD degree, Board Certification in Pediatric Pathology (preferred), and a medical license, or eligibility for, in the State of Illinois.
• Demonstrated leadership in clinical care, development of research, and/or administration within pathology.