Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

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Position Summary: The Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the WVU School of Medicine leads the academic home of emergency services across multiple academic emergency departments. The Chair oversees the academic mission, strategy, and operations, ensuring delivery of high-quality evidence-based care, maintaining excellence in education and research. The role reports to the Chancellor and Executive Dean of WVU Health Sciences, with a time allocation of 30-40% clinical and 60-70% administrative, educational, and research.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

Educational

• Works collaboratively with the Vice President & Executive Dean, Associate Deans, other Department Chairs, Program Directors, and faculty on curriculum for the medical school.
• Teaches medical students, residents, and allied health professionals.
• Supports the Residency Program Director and complies with the standards of the Office of Graduate Medical Education.
• Maintains accreditation of all educational programs, both pre‑doctoral and post‑graduate.
• Promotes recruitment, retention, and mentoring of academic faculty within the Department.
• Assures continuing faculty development activities in education.
• Provides annual summative evaluation and oversight of all faculty within the department, particularly with regards to promotion and tenure cycle, as well as ongoing formative evaluation and feedback.

Clinical

• Participates in clinical service.
• Determines qualifications and assesses the competency of all members of the department and coordinates and provides oversight of all medical staff as it relates to credentialing, re‑credentialing, and privileging.
• Collaborates with clinical services to support a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Ensures that patient care delivery and clinical standards for the department are consistent with current professional guidelines, accreditation standards, and the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.
• Monitors clinician, patient, referral, and employee satisfaction in accordance with organizational goals and guidelines, while maintaining clinical excellence.
• Ensures the practice of evidence‑based medicine, as well as optimal patient care by clinicians.
• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer to develop and monitor continuous performance improvement.

Scholarship

• Participates in scholarly activities.
• Enables faculty to develop and enhance academic and professional development.
• Provides appropriate mentoring for academic, scholarly, and professional growth.
• Encourages and rewards grant funding in education and training, basic, translational, and clinical research.
• Seeks interdisciplinary collaboration in research and scholarly activities.
• Supervises and mentors faculty research focused on practice‑changing contributions and scientific importance with a focus on high‑impact journals and national/international presentation.
• Mentors faculty and promotes development in voluntary national academic organizations.

Financial

• Oversees departmental finances with regard to the clinical practice and educational mission.
• Creates and executes an appropriate departmental budget, with the assistance of Departmental and Hospital Administrators, and other key personnel.
• Provides recommendations regarding equitable compensation for faculty, and staff working in Emergency Medicine and updates them regularly.
• Makes recommendations for annual capital improvements and monitors future fiscal needs of the department.

Hospital

• Oversees clinical operations, capital purchases, and compliance.
• Contributes to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical services.
• Works with leadership to monitor physician productivity, quality, access, and clinician/patient/staff satisfaction.
• Serves as spokesperson for the department, advises leadership, and acts as an agent for implementing the policies and procedures of the hospital.
• Coordinates with the Hospital/Ambulatory Clinics Administration, Chairs, and Medical Directors to optimize access and delivery of care to patients.
• Ensures that clinical care is consistent with current professional standards, as well as with the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.
• Collaborates with quality and compliance officers in performance improvement projects, turnaround time, sentinel event reports, key performance indicators and established metrics and dashboards.
• Participates in medical staff affairs.

Community Relations and Outreach

• Seeks collaborative relationships with clinicians and administrators at system hospitals.
• Maintains active professional relationships with former graduates practicing in the state and region.
• Participates in local and regional leadership forums and societies or delegates these responsibilities.
• Remains active in local, state, regional and national professional societies.

Strategic Planning

• Participates in active and ongoing strategic planning for the department, which is congruent with that of the School of Medicine, the Health Sciences Center, the University, and WVU Medicine.
• Assists in setting personal and departmental goals with measurable outcomes.

Other

• Participates in the Council of Chairs and Executive Council of the School of Medicine.
• Serves on committees and councils as assigned by the Dean, CMO, hospital CEO, other ranking officials, or as peer elected.
• Promotes and participates in endeavors of philanthropy on behalf of the Department, School of Medicine, and University.
• Serves in other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education, Certification, Licensure, and Experience

• Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from an accredited medical school.
• Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and participation in continuing certification.
• Hold or able to obtain medical licensure in the State of West Virginia by start date.
• Current medical school appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level.
• At least ten (10) years of clinical practice experience and a minimum of three (3) years administrative experience in an academic medical center preferred.
• Familiarity with clinical program administration and graduate medical education required.

West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively “WVUHS”) are equal opportunity employers and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. WVUHS strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All WVUHS employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

University Health Associates and its subsidiaries (collectively “UHA”) is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. UHA strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All UHA employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Exempt

Exempt/Non-Exempt: United States of America (Exempt)

Company: UHA University Health Associates

Cost Center: 500 UHA Administration

Address: 1 Medical Center Drive, Morgantown, West Virginia

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