Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology

Department Of Radiation Oncology Chair

Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as the next Department of Radiation Oncology Chair. This is an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished clinical leader to oversee innovation and the highest quality clinical care across Cedars-Sinai. The chair will fill a key executive role at nationally-ranked Cedars-Sinai. This position will direct all facets of the department, ensuring that the overall strategic vision and direction aligns with the broader Cedars-Sinai mission. The chair will achieve success by providing expert leadership in the following areas:

• Strategic, operational and fiscal oversight. The chair manages all aspects of the department, including administrative, clinical, research, and educational initiatives, managing a complex departmental budget, optimizing throughput at satellite locations, and ensuring revenue growth through efficient resource utilization and business development.
• Clinical innovation and subspecialized expertise. The chair ensures the continuous evolution of clinical practice, driving the adoption and integration of next-generation therapeutic modalities and imaging technologies that redefine the standard of care for complex and rare pathologies and positions the department at the forefront of precision medicine.
• Patient care and quality improvement. A key focus is on ensuring excellent patient care. The chair will uphold prestigious APEx accreditation through quality standards by fostering a proactive culture of multidisciplinary peer-review, patient safety, quality improvement, and risk management by linking them to evidence-based medicine.
• Research distinction and extramural funding. The chair will define a strategic research vision that accelerates scholarly output, enhances clinical trial enrollment, increases extra-mural and federal award funding, and translates laboratory discoveries into investigator-initiated clinical trials.
• Education and training. The chair will also have operational oversight of training programs, ensuring excellence in training and education leading the delivery of premier graduate medical education and residency training.
• Faculty mentorship and development. The chair is responsible for attracting, mentoring, and developing both clinical and research-focused faculty. They provide guidance to junior faculty members to create a strong, robust department.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration. The chair is the primary driver in integrating and coordinating radiation oncology services across departments and service lines to provide seamless, evidence-based care within the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

The Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai is a hub of clinical innovation and compassionate care in the heart of Los Angeles. The department serves a diverse patient population, offering the Chair an opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary team of world-renowned radiation oncologists, physicists, and researchers. The incoming Chair will assume leadership of a department with a thriving culture characterized by clinical excellence and multidisciplinary collaboration. Faculty work in close partnership with surgical and medical oncology colleagues to provide excellent integrated care.

The department has an excellent track record of external funding and academic productivity. Reflecting a robust commitment to academic dissemination, we aim to continue our upward trajectory in research quality and output. Our FY25 academic accomplishments include:

• Federal Award Funding: $2,524,117
• Total Award Funding: $3,012,117
• In FY25, our department has produced 42 total publications, reflecting a robust commitment to academic dissemination.
• Our program has demonstrated an upward trajectory in research quality, with 21 publications appearing in journals with an Impact Factor (IF) greater than 10an increase from the 20 high-impact publications recorded in FY24.
• Faculty have achieved consistent placement in top-tier medical literature, including multiple contributions to the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The department upholds a rigorous commitment to patient safety and therapeutic excellence, underscored by its prestigious APEx (Accreditation Program for Excellence) designation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). This accreditation validates the department's adherence to over 200 stringent quality standards, encompassing exhaustive staff training, rigorous equipment maintenance, and standardized clinical documentation.

The Cedars-Sinai Health System includes the nationally recognized Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai) and its affiliated physician network, major programs in physician and health professions education and the highly regarded Burns and Allen Medical Research Institute. The Cedars-Sinai Health System also includes the Marina del Rey Hospital; Torrance Memorial Medical Center and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Torrance and the beach cities of Los Angeles; and Huntington Health and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.

Cedars-Sinai Mission Statement

• We deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education
• We prioritize high-quality care for all with equity and compassion
• We transform biomedical discoveries and innovations for better health
• We educate tomorrow's physicians, nurses, researchers, and healthcare professionals

The Chair is responsible for actively leading the integration and coordination of services between Radiation Oncology and other departments and service lines within Cedars-Sinai. They are responsible for leading programmatic activities which support Cedars-Sinai mission of quality patient care, research, education and training, and community services. The Chair provides overall coordination and supervision of the delivery and quality of medical care including care provided by medical staff, faculty, residents, and fellows, and for the overseeing and directing the provision and continuous performance improvement of those services.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the leadership of Cedars-Sinai, develop and implement organizational and service line strategic and operational plans. Implement and continuously update the strategic plan for the Department of Radiation Oncology. Develop plans, policies, goals, programs, and budgets to achieve the objectives of the department and fulfill the mission of Cedars-Sinai.
• Ensure service line profitability through revenue and expense management, development and expansion and contracting of programs and services. Improve the competitive position and market share of the service line by initiating business development activities and implementing viable programs and services.
• Ensure appropriate provision of resources to provide services, including management of the appropriate levels, qualifications, development and experience of the staff. Organize and direct the department's professional, administrative and medical staff, maintaining and enhancing the support of attending staff and ensuring administrative coordination with other departmental leaders.
• Oversee goal setting and monitoring of performance improvement activities within the department.
• Actively participate in the integration and coordination of services throughout Cedars-Sinai by aligning operational or cost elements for inpatient and outpatient facilities, staff and other resources, coordinating and integrating interdepartmental and intradepartmental services, etc.
• In collaboration with the leadership of Cedars-Sinai, define the mission and establish the strategic direction for Radiation Oncology, ensuring the necessary financial and human resources to achieve the agreed upon objectives.
• Provide the vision and leadership to achieve superior clinical programs; work with the leadership at Cedars-Sinai to build and grow areas of acknowledged clinical excellence and lead development and implementation of cutting-edge services.
• Define and lead the Department's research strategy; support principal faculty within the Department in efforts to secure NIH and other grant funding as needed to support research priorities; lead the Department in all its academic endeavors, developing and enhancing programs, services, and scientific/clinical investigations.
• Ensure that excellent clinical education and advanced training is delivered to the medical students and residents; provide leadership and oversight to the training programs within the Department.
• Supervise, prepare, implement and monitor the department budget that encompasses all funding sources and ensures compliance with grant, legislative, and institutional guidelines; effectively work to manage limited resources in collaboration with others.
• Ensure the retention and hiring of key faculty and medical staff and lead the ongoing recruitment of world class physicians committed to teaching, research, and clinical service; ensure an atmosphere of support and development.
• Participate in relevant leadership meetings and communicate key information and initiatives within Radiation Oncology to leadership.
• Encourage ethical medical and financial practice and support compliance activities as necessary.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with external fundraising organizations and develop priorities for allocation of development funds. Develop new fundraising projects.
• Oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services for all administrative and clinical functions of the department.
• Ensure compliance with State and federal laws, accreditation, professional, and regulatory agency standards including quality assurance and licensure requirements within the Department Radiation Oncology; establish and maintain a quality assurance program acceptable to Cedars-Sinai as required by The Joint Commission, State, and other agencies, which includes a review of the quality, safety, and appropriateness of services rendered.

Compensation Range

We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay, benefits, and other incentive programs for our employees. The total pay range shown considers the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and