Division Chief, Pediatric GI

The Division Chief is a full-time physician responsible for leading all operational aspects of a Division in the Department of Pediatrics, including the clinical practices, educational activities (medical student, resident, fellowship, and postgraduate/postdoctoral educational programs), and scholarly activities. This individual serves as a role model and mentor for faculty, scientists, and physicians in training in the Division. The position, therefore, requires an outstanding physician who is a distinguished leader in their specialty as well as an exemplary teacher, and where appropriate, with a strong background and accomplishments in research and/or other scholarly contributions. The individual must have demonstrated ability to administer a complex clinical enterprise and be capable of leading strategic planning and decision-making efforts as they relate to the Division.

The Chief is ultimately accountable for all personnel who work in the Division, including nursing and medical professionals and other clinical and administrative staff. Thwomeney are responsible for:

• Maintaining appropriate behavior and professionalism of all personnel working in the Division.

• Fiscal management of the Division, including operating, research, and sundry funds.

• Assuring integrated activity, quality outputs, efficient and effective options for patient care and patient satisfaction with the Division's clinical services.

• Adherence to all MGB/BWH/MGH/BWPO/MGPO/DoP and regulatory policies and procedures.

• Ensuring policies and procedures are in place for the effective and efficient performance of the Division's clinical services.

The incumbent works in collaboration with appropriate Administrative, Divisional, Departmental, and/or Senior Institutional leadership in these activities.

Position Responsibilities: They may delegate assignments as necessary but are ultimately responsible for ensuring that each of the functions listed below is achieved.

Integration

• Lead divisional efforts to enhance integration across MGB inclusive of clinical, educational, research and community efforts within the service line and as appropriate across service lines.

Clinical Operations

• Ensures the effective and efficient day-to-day operation of the Division, comprising its outpatient and inpatient clinical practice, including the Division's subspecialty activities within associated Center(s).

• Develops and adheres to appropriate policies and procedures, management and committee structure and systems to support long-standing functions and new activities.

• Ensures the Division's participation in and implementation of recommended improvements related to Quality and Safety related activities.

• Ensures efficient use and maximization of the Division's physical resources to ensure appropriate and maximized usage; Plans and implements any renovations and new construction projects.

Educational Programs

• Oversees the Division's educational programs (residents/fellows/medical students/ postgraduate and postdoctoral programs as applicable).

• Ensures compliance with all applicable policies and requirements for accreditation by the ACGME/Residency Review Committee, Partners Educational Executive Committee on Teaching and Education and other appropriate regulatory agencies.

• Ensures ongoing participant and program evaluation to gauge progress and evaluate training program effectiveness and implements improvements as appropriate to advance the programs.

Research

• In collaboration with the Administrative Director of Research and Grant Administrators, the Chief oversees the effective and efficient day-to-day operation of the Division's research activities, including personnel, space, systems, policies and procedures, facilities, finances, compliance, safety, and other such issues.

• Develops and implements strategies for optimizing the Division's basic, clinical, community based and translational research activities and academic output.

Financial

• In collaboration with the Department Administrative Director of Finance and the Division Administrative Director, the Chief oversees the Division's financial performance, including developing, executing, and monitoring clinical and research operating and capital budgets.

• In collaboration with the Divisional Administrative Director and Departmental Leadership, implements and monitors the Department of Pediatrics' Compensation Plan, including associated incentives, for physician faculty.

Personnel and Faculty Development

• Responsible for the recruitment and ongoing management of all Division professional staff. Conducting faculty searches in line with HMS guidelines and processes as applicable.

• Serves as a mentor to and ensures the professional development/promotion of the Division's professional and non-professional staff.

• In collaboration with Division administrative leadership fosters diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging within the division, supports recruitment, professional development, and retention.

• Assures the appropriate behavior and professionalism of all personnel while in the service's environment, including nurses, physicians, and support staff.

• Conducts annual career conferences with each faculty member to support their clinical and academic growth.

Quality

• Oversees quality assurance and performance improvement programs in all aspects of quality (clinical, operational, cost effectiveness, customer service/patient satisfaction), including divisionally based programs as well as the Division's participation in institutional compliance programs including Ongoing and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation OPPE/FPPE for all new clinical faculty and twice annually for current clinical faculty.

• Maintains knowledge of nationally recommended quality metrics for their specialty and institutes quality metrics in collaboration with the Quality and Safety team.

• Oversees development of Divisional quality metrics (e.g. for credentialing, Board of Registration in Medicine, contract performance initiatives, etc.) and associated incentive plans.

• Works with enterprise and Departmental Quality leaders (Departmental QA Chair), IS, and others to identify and implement quality related IS tools (databases, order entry, etc.) and ensure the Divisions' participation in appropriate national data collection and reporting initiatives.

• Ensures Divisions' compliance with safety, regulatory, emergency preparedness, minimal staffing, communication, etc. issues, including the Joint Commission, HIPAA, OSHA, Hospital, Departmental, etc. guidelines.

Program Development

• Ensures the Division's representation and collaboration with appropriate Center(s) and associated committees; Ensures close working relationships with corresponding medical specialties, anesthesia and nursing to ensure an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to the care of patients in the(se) disease Center(s).

• Ensures the Division's participation in network development, outreach and marketing activities; Participates in identifying, developing, and implementing partnering initiatives with MGB affiliates and non-affiliate entities; Monitors and ensures the ongoing effectiveness of relationships with affiliated programs. The Chief is responsible for the Division's programs at other community locations.

• Ensures collaboration with other MGB programs and community locations to coordinate the institutions' clinical and administrative efforts, as they relate to their specialty areas; Ensures the Division's representation on appropriate Committees as requested.

• Supports the development of new programs and multidisciplinary efforts at the division level and across the Department of Pediatrics, hospital(s) and enterprise; Ensures appropriate divisional involvement in broader programmatic initiatives; Develops business plans to promote the vision of the Division(s); In collaboration with the Department leadership participates in development and implementation of marketing plans.

• Identifies Divisional initiatives for fund-raising; Works with the Chair of Pediatrics and representatives from the Development Office to prioritize, develop and implement strategies for raising funds in support of Divisional, Department and Hospital-wide development initiatives.

Reporting Relationships: The Division Chief will report for clinical operations and quality and safety initiatives to the Vice Chair of Pediatrics and Medical Director for MGfC and to the Chair of Pediatrics and Physician in Chief for MGfC for all responsibilities inclusive of leadership, academics, and faculty development. They will work in a collaborative manner with Administrative Directors, the Chiefs of associated pediatric medical specialties, pediatric surgical specialties, nursing leadership, and other leadership throughout the enterprise, hospital, and network, as needed.

Qualifications:

Clinical Requirements: The individual should be board-certified in their specialty, if applicable, with demonstrated outstanding clinical skills. The individual will interact with residents and fellows as well as the early career and senior staff members involved in multi-disciplinary patient care. The individual should have a sufficient regional and national reputation to attract referrals from within as well as outside the local area and to foster the national activities of the Division and its members. Familiarity with and ability to introduce techniques and technology not currently utilized are desirable.

Teaching Requirements: The individual will have an important role in teaching medical students and residents during their clinical training and rotations on the service, as well in supervising associated residency and fellowship programs and research fellows. They will be responsible for overseeing the content and administration of the teaching programs of the Division for residents, fellows, and for medical students.

Research/Scholarly Requirements: The individual should have a national reputation in clinical, translational, community, and/or basic research that may include original contributions to the understanding of disease and/or outcomes, or other scholarly works related to clinical innovation, community/advocacy, and/or teaching. The individual will be responsible for supporting innovative research studies and for vertical integration of basic investigations into the clinical research program of the Division. The individual will be expected to compete successfully for independent research funding and/or to facilitate the success of the Division in obtaining external research funds. The individual should rank nationally at the top of their peer group in academic Pediatrics.

Administrative Requirements: The individual must have demonstrated organizational, management, and leadership skills to direct and grow the group's clinical and research efforts and to integrate and maintain a strong commitment to the major components of the hospital's mission: patient care, education, research, and community health. Responsibilities include management of annual clinical and research budgets and the supervision of senior and junior staff, residents, fellows, non-professional staff and students within the Division and its laboratories. The individual will also help to lead the enterprise/institution's efforts to develop Centers, working closely with colleagues in the medical subspecialties involved in these Centers to ensure an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to the care of patients.

Personal Characteristics: The Division Chief should have the ability to make timely and effective decisions, and to engender support. They must be an accessible, calm, mature, and fair individual with superlative interpersonal skills that permit them to establish credibility with staff of different disciplines, to interact with and mentor faculty and trainees at all levels, and to be persuasive in both one-to-one and group settings are essential.