Miami/Inaugural Division Chief - Pediatric Hospital Medicine Opportunity

The incoming Chief will have the tremendous opportunity to elevate a pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) section to a division, with the vision to achieve national pre-eminence in PHM through exceptional clinical care, teaching, research, quality improvement, and advocacy.

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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 (MSOM), 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 inaugural MSOM Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

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Opportunity Highlights:

· Benefiting from a highly collegial culture in the current section, tremendous opportunities exist in key areas such as cultivating faculty development and leadership in all areas of academic PHM, creating a sedation team skilled in minor procedures to support both inpatient and consulting teams, and by establishing a leading PHM fellowship program with the goal of becoming a center of excellence that goes beyond traditional inpatient care.

· Building world-class divisional research is also a priority. The communities Holtz Children’s Hospital serves are a rich environment for cutting-edge clinical research, implementation science, and community-based participatory research.

· Multiple areas of interest will be supported by the Department of Pediatrics, 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 MSOM that is one of the top-10 programs in the United States for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and chronic illness.

· 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.