Vice Chair, Clinical Services Anesthesia - 500455

About the role

The Vice Chair, Clinical Services Anesthesia is the senior physician leader responsible for all clinical operations, quality, safety, and performance of the anesthesia service line at UToledo Health. This is a clinical leadership position with direct accountability for delivering safe, efficient, high-quality perioperative care across the main operating rooms, non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) sites, and other anesthetizing locations in a busy academic health system.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and day-to-day leadership for the full scope of anesthesia services.
• Direct the clinical practice of faculty anesthesiologists, CRNAs, CAAs, and residents to ensure consistent, evidence-based, patient-centered care.
• Develop, standardize, and continuously improve clinical protocols, workflows, and best practices across the perioperative continuum.
• Partner with surgical leadership and the OR leadership team to drive efficiency metrics (first-case on-time starts, turnover times, block utilization, concurrency, and throughput).
• Lead department-specific quality, safety, and risk-management programs, including morbidity conferences, root-cause analyses, and adoption of national benchmarks (AQI, MPSF, NACOR).

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Board certification in Anesthesiology (American Board of Anesthesiology).
• Eligibility for unrestricted Ohio medical licensure.
• Minimum 7–10 years of progressive clinical and leadership experience in a high-volume academic or tertiary-care medical center.
• Proven success in clinical program development, OR efficiency improvement, quality/safety initiatives, and physician–APP team leadership is preferred.
• Demonstrated change-management and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Retirement Benefits: 403B Traditional or 403B Roth Plan, 403/457 Deferred Compensation Plan, Pension Plans: UTP Pension Plan with Employer Contribution up to 7.5%, UTA Academic Pension Plan.
• Eligibility for Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance Coverage through the University of Toledo.
• Over 9 Weeks of Paid Time Off, Inclusive of Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time.
• University of Toledo Tuition Fee Waiver Program for Employees and Dependents.
• CME and Travel Allowance.
• DEA Waiver and Licensure Cost Coverage.
• UTP opts out of FICA, Reducing the Employee's Payroll Taxes.

Conditions of Employment

• To promote the highest levels of health and well-being, the University of Toledo campuses are tobacco-free.
• Pre-employment health screening requirements for the University of Toledo Health Science Campus Medical Center will include drug and other required health screenings for the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The University of Toledo is an equal opportunity employer. The University of Toledo does not discriminate in employment, educational programs, or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military or veteran status, disability, familial status, or political affiliation. The University is dedicated to attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent and fostering a culture of respect.