Margaret T. and Larry K. Pickering Chair, Department of Pediatrics WVU School of Medicine

Position Summary

The Department of Pediatrics is the academic home to all pediatrics faculty and advanced practice providers at the WVU Children’s Hospital in Morgantown and other locations throughout the WVU Health System (WVU Medicine).

This is an exceptional leadership opportunity for a physician with an unwavering commitment to excellence in clinical care, education, and research. The Department Chair will be responsible for overseeing the academic mission, strategy, and clinical operations in conjunction with a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate medical education, and interdisciplinary health sciences education.

This includes ensuring the delivery of the highest quality of evidence-based care and service, consistency in the quality standards of practice, and maintaining excellence across the academic spectrum enabling scholarly advances in the field. The Chair facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to achieve excellence in clinical care, education, and research in an environment in which collaboration is highly valued.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with the Executive Chair of WVU Children’s Hospital, Chancellor & Executive Dean, Associate Deans, other Department Chairs, Program Directors, and faculty on curriculum for the medical school.

• Teaches medical students, residents and allied health professionals.

• Supports the Residency Program Director and complies with the standards of the Office of Graduate Medical Education.

• Maintains accreditation of all educational programs.

• Promotes the recruitment, retention, and mentoring of academic faculty within the Department.

• Assures continuing faculty development activities in education.

• Provides annual summative evaluation and oversight of all faculty within the department, particularly with regards to the promotion and tenure cycle, as well as ongoing formative evaluation and feedback.

CLINICAL

• Participates in clinical service.

• Determines the qualifications and assesses the competency of all members of the department and coordinates and provides oversight of all medical staff as it relates to credentialing, re-credentialing, and privileging.

• Collaborates with clinical services to support a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

• Ensures that patient care delivery and clinical standards for the department are consistent with current professional guidelines, accreditation standards, and the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.

• Maintains clinician, patient, referral, and employee satisfaction in accordance with organizational goals and guidelines, while maintaining clinical excellence.

• Ensures the practice of evidence-based medicine, as well as optimal patient care by clinicians.

• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer to develop and monitor continuous performance improvement.

SCHOLARSHIP

• Participates in scholarly activities.

• Enables faculty to develop and enhance academic and professional development.

• Provides appropriate mentoring for academic, scholarly and professional growth.

• Encourages and rewards grant funding in education and training, basic, translational and clinical research.

• Seeks interdisciplinary collaboration in research and scholarly activities.

• Supervises and mentors faculty research focused on practice changing contributions and scientific importance with a focus on high impact journals and national/international presentation.

• Mentors faculty and promotes development in voluntary national academic organizations.

FINANCIAL

• Oversees departmental finances with regards to the clinical practice and educational mission.

• Creates and executes an appropriate departmental budget, with the assistance of WVU Children’s Hospital, Departmental and Hospital Administrators, and other key personnel.

• Provides recommendations regarding equitable compensation for faculty, and staff working in Pediatrics and updates them regularly.

• Makes recommendations for annual capital improvements and monitors future fiscal needs of the department.

HOSPITAL

• Oversees clinical operations, capital purchases and compliance.

• Contributes to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical services.

• Works with leadership to monitor physician productivity, quality, access, and clinician/patient/staff satisfaction.

• Serves as spokesperson for the department, advises leadership, and acts as an agent for implementing the policies and procedures of the hospital.

• Collaborates with quality and compliance officers in performance improvement projects, turnaround time, sentinel event reports, key performance indicators and established metrics and dashboards.

• Participates in medical staff affairs.

Essential Skills Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of clinical operations and management.

• Credibility, problem solving, teamwork, consensus building, conflict resolution, and developing innovative solutions.

• Ability to handle unusual, demanding and unrelated tasks.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an effective, active listener.

• Ability to give constructive feedback and mentoring.

• Ability to work and function in a matrix organization.

• Ability to seize new opportunities and generate new ideas in a spirit of innovation.

• Viewed by his/her colleagues as an exemplar of professionalism and is passionate regarding the provision of superb clinical care.

• A management philosophy that exemplifies accountability, integrity, self-awareness, respect for others, collaboration, willingness to share and teach, customer service orientation, and commitment to excellence in all endeavors.

Minimum Education, Certification, Licensure, And Experience

• Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from an accredited medical school.

• Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and participation in its continuing certification program.

• Hold or able to obtain medical licensure in the State of West Virginia by start date.

• At least ten (10) years of clinical practice experience and a minimum of three (3) years administrative experience in an academic medical center preferred.

• Familiarity with clinical program administration and graduate medical education required.