Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

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West Virginia University School of Medicine

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

WVU School of Medicine

West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine seeks a new Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with West Virginia University Hospitals/University Health Associates. This is an exceptional leadership opportunity for a physician with an unwavering commitment to excellence in clinical care, education, and research.

Position Summary:

The Department of Emergency Medicine is the academic home to all faculty providers of emergency services across multiple academic emergency departments. The Department Chair will be responsible for overseeing the academic mission, strategy, and operations in conjunction with a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate medical education, and interdisciplinary health sciences education. This includes ensuring the delivery of the highest quality of evidence-based care and service, consistency in the quality standards of practice, and maintaining excellence across the academic spectrum enabling scholarly advances in the field. The Chair facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to achieve excellence in clinical care, education, and research in an environment in which collaboration is highly valued. This position will report to the Chancellor and Executive Dean of WVU Health Sciences, and the allocation of time is expected to be 30-40% clinical and 60-70% Administrative, Educational and Research.

Core Duties and Responsibilities:

EDUCATIONAL:

• Works collaboratively with the Vice President & Executive Dean, Associate Deans, other Department Chairs, Program Directors, and faculty on curriculum for the medical school.
• Teaches medical students, residents and allied health professionals.
• Supports the Residency Program Director and complies with the standards of the Office of Graduate Medical Education.
• Maintains accreditation of all educational programs, both pre-doctoral and post-graduate
• Promotes the recruitment, retention, and mentoring of academic faculty within the Department.
• Assures continuing faculty development activities in education.
• Provides annual summative evaluation and oversight of all faculty within the department, particularly with regards to the promotion and tenure cycle, as well as ongoing formative evaluation and feedback.

CLINICAL

• Participates in clinical service.
• Determines the qualifications and assesses the competency of all members of the department and coordinates and provides oversight of all medical staff as it relates to credentialing, re-credentialing, and privileging.
• Collaborates with clinical services to support a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Ensures that patient care delivery and clinical standards for the department are consistent with current professional guidelines, accreditation standards, and the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.
• Monitors clinician, patient, referral, and employee satisfaction in accordance with organizational goals and guidelines, while maintaining clinical excellence.
• Ensures the practice of evidence-based medicine, as well as optimal patient care by clinicians.
• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer to develop and monitor continuous performance improvement.

SCHOLARSHIP

• Participates in scholarly activities.
• Enables faculty to develop and enhance academic and professional development.
• Provides appropriate mentoring for academic, scholarly, and professional growth.
• Encourages and rewards grant funding in education and training, basic, translational, and clinical research.
• Seeks interdisciplinary collaboration in research and scholarly activities.
• Supervises and mentors faculty research focused on practice changing contributions an