CHIEF Medical Officer

Job Description: Chief Medical Officer Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians Mount Auburn Hospital Reporting to the President of Mount Auburn Hospital, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as a key member of the senior leadership team and provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership across the organization. The CMO maintains a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Chief Clinical Officer of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) and serves as a critical liaison between hospital leadership, the medical staff, and the broader health system. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior physician leader responsible for driving initiatives related to clinical quality, patient safety, care coordination, utilization management, patient flow, and physician engagement, while advancing a high performing, patient centered culture that supports operational excellence, academic medicine, and physician alignment across Mount Auburn Hospital. The CMO provides executive oversight of all key physician and clinical functions, including Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, department chairs, service line medical directors, case management, utilization review, referral management, medical staff affairs, physician recruitment and retention, and medical staff education. The selected physician should be eligible for a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor level. The CMO will maintain an active clinical practice at Mount Auburn Hospital as part of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, providing care throughout the Beth Israel Lahey Health system.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership to advance a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization.
• Maintain collaborative relationships, including BIDMC/Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) and Operations Leadership identifying opportunities to strengthen integration, expand services, and improve collaboration and efficiency.
• Partner closely with hospital and BILH system leadership to develop and implement strategic and operational priorities that enhance clinical performance, physician engagement, and patient outcomes.
• Foster strong relationships with physicians, department chairs, medical directors, advanced practice clinicians, and community partners to ensure alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
• Serve as a trusted and visible leader within the organization, promoting open communication, accessibility, and collaboration throughout the medical staff and clinical enterprise.
• Lead initiatives focused on improving care coordination, patient flow, length of stay management, utilization management, readmissions, access to care, and overall clinical efficiency.
• Support the continued growth, alignment, and integration of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians in collaboration with BILH Medical Group and affiliated physician organizations.
• Collaborate with quality and operational leaders to evaluate clinical performance and implement programs that improve quality outcomes, patient safety, patient experience, and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure consistent, evidence-based clinical care delivery and advance initiatives that support standardization, clinical integration, and performance improvement across the continuum of care.
• Serve as a resource and strategic partner to