Miami - Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief/Endowed Chair/Heart Center Co-Director Opportunity

On behalf of Dr. Glenn Flores, Chair of Pediatrics and Sr. Assoc. Dean of Child Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSOM), and Physician-in-Chief at Holtz Children’s Hospital in the Jackson Health System (JHS), CareerPhysician, LLC, the national leader in academic pediatric leadership recruitment, has initiated an international search to identify a transformational leader to serve as the next UMMSOM Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the George E. Batchelor Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology.

• The incoming Chief will have the opportunity to partner with the Chief of Pediatric & Congenital Surgery and Holtz Children’s leadership to envision and build an internationally respected Heart Center for the children of South Florida, and a destination program for children in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and other parts of the world. Efforts should result in a U.S. News Best Children’s Hospital nationally ranked Cardiology and Heart Surgery Program in the next three years.

Opportunity Highlights:

· Benefiting from a highly collaborative and strong divisional culture, tremendous opportunities exist in key areas, including expanding clinical outpatient services across all South Florida and partnerships with referring community cardiologists, further enhancing the heart failure and cardiac transplant program, and recruiting additional talented faculty.

· Building world-class divisional research and teaching missions is also a priority. Multiple areas of interest will be supported by the Department, with unique opportunities to be part of the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute, as well as to collaborate with the Mailman Center for Child Development, an academic center at UMMSOM that is one of the top 10 programs in the United States for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and chronic illness.

· Newly structured maternal-fetal medicine program and expanding fetal cardiology program.

· Well-established University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship program that has experienced longstanding unconditional ACGME accreditation.

· Opportunities to build satellite outpatient clinics across the South Florida region, including at Jackson West, Jackson South, Lennar Foundation Medical Center, Weston, and Boca Raton.

· As part of the Total Rewards benefits package, University of Miami faculty, staff, and eligible dependents can receive tuition remission for undergraduate and most graduate degree programs.

· Miami is known as the top-ranked healthiest city in the United States, where you will enjoy no state taxes, weather that is never cold, endless recreational pursuits, and world-class amenities!

For more details about this opportunity, or if you would like to recommend an individual(s) who exemplifies the qualities we are seeking in a candidate, please contact Marcel Barbey at marcel@careerphysician.com. All interactions will remain confidential, and no inquiries will be made without the consent of the applicant. The University of Miami is an AA/EOE/ADA employer.

About CareerPhysician, LLC

CareerPhysician is a nationally respected executive search and leadership consulting firm with over 20 years of unprecedented success collaborating with children’s hospitals, academic medical centers and colleges of medicine. CareerPhysician has seen first-hand the indelible impact transformational physician and C-suite leaders can have on establishing productive cultures characterized by diversity, quality and wellness and yielding high-functioning teams capable of delivering strong fiscal performance and academic achievement.