System Chair, Gastroenterology

About the role

We're looking for a visionary leader to join our Gastroenterology Service Line as the System Chair. The successful candidate will collaborate with senior leadership to lead Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers in delivering quality care in a patient-focused environment. The role will involve leading clinical and academic growth, fostering innovation, and developing cohesive strategies across multiple geographies.

Responsibilities

• Achieve excellence in Gastroenterology through multidisciplinary care, evidence-based practices, process improvement initiatives, quality improvement programs, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner to lead both clinical and academic growth, developing teams across multiple geographies and engaging with other clinical service lines to support patient, research, and educational needs.
• Foster a culture of innovation in health care delivery, expanding research partnerships, leveraging our information technology platform, and enhancing strategies to optimize access and improve cancer screening rates in the communities we serve.
• Develop and maintain efficient and effective clinical operations, applying a strategic mindset and promoting collaborative work relationships between clinicians at all levels.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure workflow optimization strategies for all endoscopists, quality assurance, standardization of protocols and procedures, and ease of use for patients and providers.
• In partnership with the administrative dyad, regional leaders, and service line partners, develop, articulate, and execute a strategic plan with a clear vision to elevate the service line across the system, amidst various strategic partnerships.
• Lead efforts across the system for the use of clinical data to proactively monitor, develop, and evolve best practice guidelines to improve patient outcomes.
• Promote the standardization of clinical processes and interoperability; adopt effective solutions and innovative patient care technologies, aiming to reduce care variations between facilities.
• Recruit diverse, high-caliber faculty and trainees who will contribute to scientific advances, pursue excellence in medical education, and, ideally, grow our clinical teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple regions to drive excellent patient service and experience, faculty and staff satisfaction, growth and volume management, and optimal financial performance.
• Ensure strategies and compensation plans that allow for cohesion and understanding across the system, acknowledging differences in practice type, resources, and geography.
• Empower, motivate, and challenge faculty and staff, while holding them accountable, as a visible and inclusive leader with outstanding interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. Display the qualities of a team player who has an open leadership style that promotes partnership throughout the organization.
• Remain actively involved in advancing the standards of professionalism, including work in state, regional and national organizations.

Requirements

• National reputation for excellence and academic accomplishment within Gastroenterology, along with at least 3 years of leadership at the Section or Department level.
• Current board certification in Gastroenterology and/or a related specialty.
• M.D. or D.O. degree with active Board Certification.
• Current license, or eligibility for medical license, in the state of Louisiana.
• Eligibility for credentialing within Ochsner Health and willingness to maintain clinical practice.

Preferred

• Experience as a System Chair or Vice Chair at a large academic health system.