Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

Opportunity

Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as the next Department of Radiation

Oncology Chair. The chair will fill a key executive role at nationally-ranked Cedars-Sinai. This is an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished clinical leader to oversee innovation and the highest quality clinical care across Cedars-Sinai.

Qualifications

Ideal Experience

• A track record of personal academic accomplishments and credentials within Radiation Oncology; the experience, international reputation, and stature necessary to ensure the continuation and enhancement of the clinical, educational, and research missions.
• Exceptional clinical and research achievement with a strong track record of publication and competitive extramural funding.
• Significant, successful administrative and leadership experience at an academic healthcare system such as a division chief, vice chair or chair of a radiation oncology department.
• Success with building research programs and investing in new areas of research.
• Experience developing academic leaders and a reputation for mentorship and development of junior faculty; demonstrated ability to identify and recruit a diverse medical staff at all levels.
• Politically astute and able to work well with people at all levels; a reputation as a consensus builder and someone who can resolve conflict for the betterment of an organization.
• Demonstrated managerial and business acumen; experience in and demonstrated knowledge of the complex financial pressures facing health systems and healthcare delivery organizations today.
• Experience with managing growth, health outcomes initiatives, and the innovative enhancement of residency training programs will be highly desirable.
• A demonstrated commitment to ensuring faculty and staff represent a number of training and other backgrounds.

Minimum Requirements

• Medical Degree from an accredited medical school
• American Board Certification in Radiation Oncology
• Unrestricted California medical license as a Physician
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Cedars Sinai Medical Care Foundation Medical Staff Membership
• A published author of peer reviewed articles, with ability to serve as principal or co-investigator.
• Appointment to the appropriate academic rank in the Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series.
• Leadership skills as characterized by one who has integrity and possesses broad vision of the future of the healthcare industry; assertiveness in the presentation and effectiveness in selling of ideas, yet a maturity and sensitivity to the values and expectations of a superb medical staff, trustees, management, employees, patients, and other key constituents of Cedars-Sinai.
• Demonstrated skills in the selection, motivation, development, evaluation, recognition and retention of skilled staff.
• Commitment to developing and fostering a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to patient care.
• Demonstrated competence in continuous quality improvement processes including experience in measuring, assessing and improving the performance of service and processes in a large, complex medical center.
• Evidence of exceptional academic, clinical, professional, and administrative accomplishment.
• Demonstrated business and financial management skills, including effective expense reduction, utilization management, budget control and revenue generation.

About Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai physicians and scientists are leaders in basic and clinical research, bringing advancements in medicine directly from the laboratory to the bedside. We are committed to expanding and strengthening our regional, national, and international reputation for delivering high value services at all sites of care. This mission has been furthered by the establishment of an expansive regional healthcare system (Cedars-Sinai Health System). The system currently includes three of the finest hospitals in Southern California beyond the flagship Cedars-Sinai Medical Center which totals more than 2,300 beds with revenues exceeding $7 billion annually. The system also has more than 50 outpatient locations spanning the entire Los Angeles region and population of over 18 million.