Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Job Summary:

We seek a recognized leader with proven leadership and management skills as well as an outstanding academic background. The chair will provide strategic and administrative leadership of the highest quality to the department as well as the school and its academic health system in its research, teaching, and clinical missions.

The School of Medicine and Public Health has a deep and profound commitment to diversity both as an end in itself but also as a valuable means for eliminating health disparities.

Responsibilities:

The chair will be responsible for creating a compelling vision and advancing the academic and clinical missions of the department. The chair will also play a key leadership role within the School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Health (the university's academic health system), the University, the community and the profession.

The successful candidate will have a compelling vision for the future of Pediatrics in a leading research-intensive public academic institution.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: [Diversity and Inclusion][1]

Education:

Required
Terminal Degree
MD, MD/PhD, DO or equivalent, Pediatrics

Qualifications:

Substantial background and experience in administrative leadership, clinical care, teaching and research, including training programs for the full continuum of pediatrics learners, and a strong academic background that would qualify for appointment as a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

License/Certification:

Required
BCP - Bd Cert Pediatrics
Board Certified in Pediatrics; eligible for Wisconsin Medical License

[1]: http://diversity.wisc.edu