Physician - Primary Care and Chair of Primary Care Innovation
Position Summary
The Chair of Care Team Innovation in Primary Care is responsible for providing strategic direction and clinical leadership with a focused mandate to strengthen and transform primary care across the organization. This role emphasizes mentoring and developing newly recruited and early-career physicians while also serving as a system-wide clinical leader who champions adoption of evidence-based best practices across all primary care providers, supporting ongoing practice optimization, consistency, and continuous professional growth.
Principal Duties And Responsibilities
Establishes strategic vision and priorities for primary care transformation, emphasizing collaborative, team-based care.
Serves as a senior clinical mentor to newly recruited and early-career primary care physicians and provides peer leadership and coaching to established physicians to support ongoing practice excellence.
Led efforts to expand and strengthen collaborative practice arrangements with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Facilitates in-person and virtual collaborative forums, training sessions, and provider coaching to accelerate adoption of leading practices.
Promotes a culture of patient-centered, team-based care and organizational alignment.
Partners with physician and operational leadership to enhance patient access, panel management, and care team optimization.
Supports recruitment efforts, helping ensure alignment with organizational values and expectations for collaborative practice.
Performs other duties as requested or required.
Performance Improvement, Data & Population Health
Champions use of data and analytics to improve population health outcomes and guide clinical decision-making.
Leverages performance data to improve access, panel management, and care delivery.
Identifies variation, reduces inequities, and strengthens chronic disease and preventive-care performance.
Establishes key performance indicators related to access, panel size, quality, and patient experience.
Maintains provider and practice performance and delivers actionable insights and coaching.
Supports success under value-based and risk-based models.
Quality & Compliance
Promotes high-quality primary care through monitoring and evaluating care processes and outcomes.
Ensures alignment of care delivery with value-based and risk-based care models, including accountability for quality, safety, access, patient experience, utilization, and cost outcomes.
Drives adoption of evidence-based practices and standardized care pathways.
Engages physicians in understanding performance under population health and payer contracts.
Provides leadership for value-based programs impacting primary care.
Supports improvement in total cost of care, utilization, quality, equity, and patient experience.
Self
As a visible leader and role model for collaborative, team-based care and continuous improvement.
Maintains current knowledge of primary care innovation, workforce trends, and care delivery transformation.
Education, Experience, & Licensing Requirements
Education: MD/DO
Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in Executive/Clinical Leadership roles – Required
Minimum 2 years of experience in collaborating with advanced practitionersLicensure: BC/BE in Specialty, ACLS and BLS Certified, DEA License, and Missouri Board of Registration of the Healing Arts.