Chair of Medicine
St. Clair Health
Pittsburgh, PA - United States
WittKieffer has been retained to conduct a national search for a Chair of Medicine at St. Clair Health, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. St. Clair Health is a 329-bed nonprofit acute care health system serving the healthcare needs in southwestern Pennsylvania. As a key member of St. Clair Health’s leadership team, the Chair of Medicine will provide oversight of inpatient and outpatient internal medicine care, as well as medicine subspecialties. This role will provide direction and guidance for an inaugural internal medicine residency program.
The new Chair inherits a Department of Medicine with a robust array of clinical services and quality outcomes that is well positioned for additional growth of services. The Chair will play a principal role in leading the growth of clinical programs, elevating performance, and quality measures, and identifying ways to integrate and align internally and externally.
The Chair of Medicine will serve as a key clinical leader and strategist within the organization. The Chair will support the CMO and other clinical leaders in their efforts to achieve those strategic initiatives which are defined as critical to a thriving health system.
A key element of success will be the health system’s transition from being an excellent regional health system to becoming a teaching hospital. St. Clair recently received approval as a sponsoring institution from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The development and initiation of an internal medicine residency program is one part of a system wide effort to evolve into an innovative teaching environment.
The principal responsibilities of the Chair of Medicine are to ensure that the department functions in an integrated system of care, improves performance while realizing robust growth in breadth and depth of clinical programs, as well as enhances quality outcomes. Internal medicine teaching and research activities are expected to be designed and implemented. A genuine effort to mentor, guide and support a broad group of physician leaders within the department is a critical expectation of the Chair role.
We seek a strategic and progressive master clinician and educator who will place a particular emphasis on further ushering the department into a value-based system, integrating the faculty, and aligning community physicians, growing the department’s clinical services, and establishing the foundation for an internal medicine residency program.
Expressions of interest and applications are welcome and can be made via the WittKieffer website using the buttons below or by sending resumes, nominations, and inquiries to Rachel Polhemus or Stacy Lind, preferably via email at [email protected].