Nephrology - Division Director - Associate/Full Professor

The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension seeks a visionary, dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as the next division director.

Key responsibilities of the position include:

Leadership

• Developing and leading transformational clinical, research and educational programs

• Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise

• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff from varied backgrounds and experiences through mentorship and development of academic skills to fulfill the division’s mission and responsibilities, including promoting a culture of collaboration and patient-centered care

• Practicing financial sustainability by managing division budgets, resource allocation, and by identifying funding opportunities and diversifying revenue streams

• Achieving excellence in every activity, including business and support functions

• Providing impartial and visionary leadership by striking a proper balance of “Division and Institution” with uncompromising integrity and ethics

• Continuous and enduring advocacy to garner support and resources for all division members to ensure their success

• Creates transparent internal decision-making systems that foster accountability and enables leaders to set priorities and monitor performance against key strategic and operational goals

• As CCHMC continues to grow its regional, national, and international presence, clinicians may be asked to work at locations outside of the Burnet Campus.

Clinical Care

• Provides leadership for all our clinical care services, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that drive clinical excellence and reputation

• Monitors, ensures, and is accountable for faculty, physician, and staff productivity, wellness, and organizational engagement.

• Ensures compliance with medical center policies and State and Federal regulations.

• Serves as the direct liaison to the Chair of Pediatrics/In-Chiefs/CCHMC Executive Leadership team to promote and share the Division’s success, while promoting the broader institutional success of CCHMC.

Research

• Provides leadership for all our research programs, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that enhance our research reputation and drive clinical innovation

• Discerns and leads ideal blends of basic, translational, clinical, quality improvement, and outcomes research portfolios.

• Provides a strategic vision to lead and cultivate an environment conducive to transformative research.

• Enhances CCHMC’s ability to successfully compete for extramural programmatic funding through collaborative and collegiate research.

• Recruits, develops, and retains research faculty within the Division.

• Oversees research quality and compliance initiatives.

Education and Training

• Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming

• Provides supervision and review of education and training programs in Nephrology and Hypertension for medical students, pediatric residents, and nephrology fellows

• Assesses the quality of teaching by faculty, assuring professionalism.

• Promotes continuing education programs for professionals, including hospital teaching rounds and lectures.

• In conjunction with the clinical fellowship training director and other key stakeholders, is responsible for planning, developing, administering, and evaluating the interdisciplinary professional education programs.

• Overseeing educational/training programs and ensuring effective mentorship and guidance of trainees.

Advocacy

• Assuring professionalism and a positive culture across division faculty and staff, and adherence to the Cincinnati Children’s mission

• Maintaining and expanding the extensive interdisciplinary network of interactions with other Divisions and Departments at CCHMC, University of Cincinnati, other academic centers, and industry partners.

• Serves as an effective and inspirational legislative and policy advocate on behalf of CCHMC.

• Actively participates in and leads community involvement and programs. With representatives of relevant community and state agencies, studies community needs and reviews on a regular basis.

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