Physician Executive, Heart & Vascular Service Line Leader

Job Details

ChristianaCare seeks an accomplished physician executive to serve as its next Physician Executive, Heart & Vascular Service Line Leader , providing strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership for the prestigious Center for Heart & Vascular Health.

Reporting to the Chief Physician Executive, this leader will guide the vision, growth, and performance of an integrated cardiovascular service line across the continuum of care. Working in close partnership with operational and executive leadership, the Physician Executive will advance clinical excellence, physician engagement, innovation, research, quality, patient experience, and sustainable growth while strengthening ChristianaCare’s position as a leader in heart and vascular care.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction and continued development of ChristianaCare’s heart and vascular service line.
• Drive growth, integration, access, and market differentiation across cardiovascular services.
• Advance clinical quality, patient safety, operational performance, and value-based care initiatives.
• Partner within a dyad leadership model to align clinical, operational, and financial priorities.
• Foster physician engagement, accountability, leadership development, and alignment across employed and community-based physicians.
• Champion innovation, new technologies, research, and academic initiatives, including medical education and fellowship development.
• Build collaborative relationships with physicians, administrators, academic partners, and external stakeholders to advance cardiovascular care.

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will be a highly respected physician leader with significant experience leading cardiovascular programs, service lines, or physician organizations within a large health system, academic medical center, or integrated cardiovascular enterprise.

Candidates should possess:

• An MD or DO degree and board certification in a cardiovascular specialty.
• A distinguished record of clinical excellence and physician leadership.
• Experience driving strategic growth, physician alignment, clinical integration, and performance improvement.
• Strong relationship-building, communication, and consensus-building skills.
• Experience supporting academic medicine, research, and physician education.
• MBA, MHA, or comparable leadership training preferred.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a visionary leader to shape the future of cardiovascular care within one of the nation’s most respected health systems.

$709,800 - $1,261,600

The above compensation range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting for full-time hours in the respective specialty. The actual compensation within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation the fair market value for physician services in the relevant specialty and the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, credentials, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. The compensation range listed may encompass various forms of applicable compensation for this position, including, but not limited to, productivity incentives, value-based incentives and other ancillary forms of compensation dependent upon operational factors such as hours worked, call coverage and other factors. ChristianaCare will offer compensation at an appropriate point within the above range or, less frequently, may offer a level of compensation outside the listed range as warranted by the circumstances.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Post End Date

Jun 30, 2027

EEO Posting Statement

ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit