Open Rank, Clinical Faculty (Division Chief) - Surgery, Colon and Rectal

• Promote the mission of UHealth in achieving its role in providing medical education, research, and quality patient care 

• Collaborate with leaders from other Departments to deliver clinical quality delivery across the health systems, including JMH and UM affiliated facilities  

• Oversee all aspect of clinical activities for the division including monitoring access optimization, surgical volumes, patient experience, patient safety, and compliance 

• Participate in strategic growth and development plans for the division  

• Oversee overall productivity for clinical faculty as well as scholarly activities, education, research and community of all faculty members within the division  

• Strengthens current clinical programs necessary to achieve the department and UHealth System vision and goals 

• Works with department leadership to create and implement new clinical programs to achieve the department’s vision and goals 

• Ensures alignment between all units by meeting with the division’s faculty regularly 

• Work closely with the Chair and SAO to ensure a united vision and shared priorities for the department 

• Represent the department with internal and external clinical partners 

• Responsible for developing strong relations with clinical departments 

• Work with the clinical divisions to understand their unique challenges and identify opportunities within their units 

• Recruit, mentor and evaluate faculty performance annually 

• Responsible for FPPE and OPPE credentialing evaluations including presenting faculty files for new appointments and recredentialing division faculty  

• Oversee and periodically update delineation of privileges at all affiliated facilities 

• Ensure that the clinical services offered by the Division are of the highest quality, meet community needs, and support the organization 

• Assume responsibility for developing and maintaining cost-effective resource management activities and strategies for the effective delivery of patient care correlated to clinical quality outcome data, i.e., establishing policies and procedures for quality assessment/improvement programs. 

• Establish performance criteria, measure performance, and record performance to recommend promotion, tenure, and salary for all division faculty and staff members. 

• Collaborate with Departmental leadership to increase revenue generation and implement a cost-containment plan  

• Interpret and help to ensure medical staff compliance with hospital and medical staff bylaws, policies, procedures, rules and regulations, and applicable regulatory standards. 

• Serve as an active member of medical staff and hospital committees. 

• Serve as a liaison to other disciplines to improve care coordination or to resolve concerns.  

• Perform other functions and duties as may be assigned or requested by the Departmental leadership. 

Education Requirements: 

Applicants should be strongly committed to patient care and education and interested in basic science and/or clinical research. 

• Must possess an MD degree 

• Must be board-certified in general surgery 

• Completed a colon and rectal fellowship 

• 3 – 5 years of leadership experience preferred

• Able to obtain a Florida medical license 

For further details, please contact:

Adrianne Lara

Physician Recruiter

adrianne.lara@miami.edu