Orlando F. Gabriele Chair, Department of Radiology

About the role

The West Virginia University Health System is West Virginia’s largest health system and the state’s largest employer with more than 3,400 licensed beds, 4,600 providers, 35,000 employees, and $7 billion in total operating revenues. The Health System is comprised of 25 hospitals – including J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, an 880-bed academic medical center, and the 150-bed WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia – and five institutes.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with the 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 and Fellowship Program Directors 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.
• 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 clinical excellence by monitoring clinician, referring provider, patient, and employee satisfaction in accordance with organizational goals and guidelines, while ensuring the practice of evidence-based medicine.
• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer to develop and monitor continuous performance improvement.
• Participates in clinical service.
• Participates in scholarly activities.
• 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.
• Oversees departmental finances with regards to the clinical practice and educational mission.
• Creates and executes an appropriate departmental budget, with the assistance of Departmental and Hospital Administrators, and other key personnel.
• Provides recommendations regarding equitable compensation for faculty, and staff working in radiology and updates them regularly.
• Makes recommendations for annual capital improvements and monitors future fiscal needs of the department.
• 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.
• Coordinates with Administration, Chairs, and Medical Directors to optimize access and the delivery of care to patients.
• Ensures that clinical care is consistent with current professional standards, as well as with the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.
• 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.
• Serves in other duties as assigned.
• Participates in active and ongoing strategic planning for the department, which is congruent with that of the School of Medicine, the Health Sciences Center, the University, and WVU Medicine.
• Affirms personal and departmental goals with measurable outcomes.
• Serves in other duties as assigned.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• An accomplished physician (MD/DO), with current and ongoing certification by the American Board of Radiology.
• Must meet requirements for medical licensure in the State of West Virginia, active clinical practice.
• Current medical school appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

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Schedule

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