Thomas Jefferson University seeks a visionary and collaborative academic physician leader to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology in its Sidney Kimmel Medical College and as the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line at Jefferson Health, a footprint that includes 5 L&D units and 33 practice locations, collectively responsible for over 13,000 deliveries and nearly 300,000 patient visits each year across Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.

Reporting to the Dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, the Chair serves as the academic and administrative leader for the Department and its 33 full-time faculty physicians and 31 advanced practice providers, ensuring coverage of clinical needs at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and 4 faculty practice locations. The Chair will be a relationship-based leader capable of recruiting and empowering a diverse faculty and promoting accountability to develop the Department’s future leaders, while also advancing the department’s residency and fellowship programs and facilitating the expansion of its clinical research portfolio.

Reporting to the President of the Jefferson Medical Group at Jefferson Health, the Clinical Leader of the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line will serve as the strategic lead in redesigning care delivery that streamlines efficiency to improve clinical quality and patient outcomes. The Clinical Leader will provide strategic advisement regarding physician recruitment, retention, and workforce planning initiatives in addition to playing a lead role in expanding clinical research offerings and education programs in concert with clinical partners across Jefferson Health’s three operational regions.

The Clinical Leader will work in tandem with an executive-level administrative dyad partner to advance the OBGYN Enterprise Service Line towards Jefferson’s mission of becoming a fully integrated academic health system. Driving this level of harmonization and transformation across a large, matrixed health system within a shared leadership model will require a Clinical Leader adept at fostering collaboration and coalescing support around collective value, while driving accountability for meeting performance metrics at the regional level through closely partnering with regional CMOs.

This position will be responsible for developing strategy, guiding innovation, overseeing implementation, and driving accountability and overall progress towards a transformational and shared vision for how Jefferson OBGYN delivers care, educates, and promotes health equity in strategic and sustainable ways that serve the changing needs of our patients, our learners, and our communities.

Requirements for this position include an MD/DO or equivalent international degree, current board certification in Obstetrics & Gynecology, and eligibility to practice in the state of Pennsylvania. Candidates must have academic achievements commensurate with appointment as an associate or full professor level at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

The successful candidate will have:

• At least 5 years of clinical operations leadership experience, ideally gained within a large healthcare system, as well as an academic career trajectory with increasing levels of administrative responsibilities, ideally culminating in serving as Chair, Vice Chair, or Division Director of an OBGYN Department.
• A strong record of cultivating academic-clinical partnerships, program development, and educational training programs.
• Experience with the operational and financial management of administering a department, including prior budget management responsibility, strategic planning, and resource management.
• Experience facilitating and promoting clinical research.

For the full comprehensive position description, email jennifer.rumain@jefferson.edu.

Applicants should submit a single PDF containing a statement of interest highlighting their leadership experience and complete CV to jennifer.rumain@jefferson.edu. Applications received by October 31, 2023 will receive full consideration. Inquiries, expressions of interest, and confidential recommendations should be sent to the same address. To apply directly, click here.

Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.

About Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health

Thomas Jefferson University is an R2 national doctoral university with 10 colleges and 3 schools offering more than 200 undergraduate and graduate-level programs to 8,200 full and part-time students. The array of colleges at Jefferson, 6 of which are dedicated to the health-related professions, support interdisciplinary collaboration in patient care, education, and research. Founded in 1824, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University offers both undergraduate medical education programs and innovative joint degree programs to more than 1,000 students each year. SKMC sponsors over 100 residency and fellowship programs for its 745 residents and 200 subspecialty fellows. SKMC has 27 departments; six basic science and 21 clinical departments, including the new Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, the first department of its kind in academic medicine. In 2022, TJU researchers obtained close to $80 million in NIH funding, of which more than 95% came from Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Currently, there are over 1,000 active clinical trials across TJU and Jefferson Health. Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown ...from a three-hospital academic health center to an 18-hospital heath system, the largest in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds (3,902). Additionally, the Jefferson Health network includes over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers throughout the Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey area, serving the Bucks, Montgomery, Camden, Gloucester, and Philadelphia counties. U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals for 2023-2024 ranked Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals among the nation’s best in 9 of its 16 specialties: Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose & Throat, Urology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Orthopedics, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery, Cancer, and Geriatrics. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals ranked 2nd overall in the Philadelphia metro region and 3rd in the state of Pennsylvania.Through a series of integrations and mergers, Jefferson now has over 42,000 employees, 3,500 employed physicians, over 9,000 full- and part-time nurses, and over 1,500 salaried faculty, making it the second largest employer in Philadelphia with over $7.9 billion in operating revenue.

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