Professor of Clinical - Surgery, Division Chief Oral Maxillofacial Surgery & Dentistry

Job Summary

The Division Chief is directly responsible to the Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for the Division's overall function. The primary responsibility is to oversee complex clinical services Oral Surgery and Dentistry. This oversight includes research and education activities of the program.

Essential Skills And Behaviors

• Encourages a patient-centric approach to patient care.
• Is team-oriented and welcomes input from all parties.
• Understands the importance of standardization and evidence-based medicine in delivering care.
• Holds physicians accountable for the quality-of-care expectations.
• Acts as an effective spokesperson for the Department’s mission, vision, and goals.
• Models actively encourages empathy in the workplace.
• Elevates unresolved issues promptly to the Chair for non-performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and execute an overarching strategy for differentiated excellence.
• Sustain a culture characterized by generosity, integrity, constructive interactions, mentoring, and respect for diversity and differences among members of the community.
• In partnership with the department, UMMSOM, and Jackson Memorial Hospital drive program growth—in a competitive marketplace.
• Grow the research and scholarship activities for Oral Surgery and Dentistry.
• Serve on the Department of Surgery leadership committees.
• Financial management of the division, including budgeting and resource allocation to ensure a margin that supports the mission.
• Develop consistent, transparent norms for high performance within the division in clinical activity, research, education, and service missions.
• Ensure clinical support for new faculty members with peer mentoring from physicians with a similar practice.
• Lead division planning and execution of recruitment for faculty, including the Selection Committee process and documentation, following Department of Surgery processes to meet UHealth’s requirements.
• Conduct timely in-person annual reviews for each faculty member with written documentation of past performance and future goals.
• Support career development for individual faculty members.
• Oversee the division’s participation in Department of Surgery education programs, including GME student programs.
• Oversee the division’s accredited fellowship training program.
• Build and strengthen educational programs and serve as a mentor and teacher to medical students, residents, and fellows.
• Recruit faculty to the division and assume shared responsibility, along with administrative executives, for hiring other professional and support staff for the division.

Desired Outcomes

• A unified division spanning organization that is defined by cohesion, transparency, high performance, and a sense of shared purpose.
• A large cadre of outstanding and diverse faculty across the spectrum of clinicians.
• A dynamic clinical enterprise that is growing in a competitive landscape.
• Research and scholarship that advances the specialty and drives innovation for the service line.
• A highly desirable residency and fellowship program at the leading edge of innovative education and training.
• A competitive rewards and compensation program, including metrics on leadership, citizenship, teamwork, quality, and academic/research productivity, in addition to clinical productivity.
• Optimum access for Oral and Dentistry services for patients and their families.

Critical Leadership Capabilities

• Driving Results
• Strategic Thinking and Program Development Skills
• Collaborative Leadership

Desired Experience

• Surgical Excellence
• Renowned for exceptional surgical skill technique and outstanding patient outcomes.
• Administrative And Leadership Experience
• Significant, successful administrative leadership experience at a thriving academic institution in a leadership role or other capacity for the department or division.
• Clinical Program Development
• Significant clinical expertise and experience in advancing strategic growth agenda of the division and department.
• Familiarity and comfort working in a matrixed, interdisciplinary healthcare delivery organization.
• Academic Career Achievement
• Outstanding academic credentials and expertise in one or more subspecialty areas. Eligible for appointment as associate professor or professor of surgery at Miller School of Medicine.
• Board Certification and Licensure
• Candidates must be Board Certified, licensed or eligible for medical licensure in Florida.

Job Status

Full time

Employee Type

Faculty-UMMG