Job Abstract

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Consistent with the core values of the institution, the Professor and Chair of a Department is responsible for the entrepreneurial growth, development, and quality of educational, scientific and clinical programs within the department and the organization at large. The Professor and Chair is also responsible for the overall leadership and management of the department consistent with guidelines set forth in the UTMB Handbook of Operating Procedures and the Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations. This oversight includes the appropriate and optimal use of human, financial, space and other resources to successfully manage the clinical, educational and research missions of the department in support of organizational goals and needs.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Clinical Mission:

• Provides leadership over the institution‘s organizational structure driving department-related activities, including vice chairs, division directors, and medical directors, who aim to manage clinical program development, revenue growth, expense management, and operational efficiencies that work to support the organization’s clinical program needs.
• Ensures that clinical faculty and staff accept responsibility and perform duties in a timely and efficient manner, utilizing clinical resources to produce good patient outcomes as measured by both accepted standards of practice and by patient satisfaction surveys, whether inpatient or clinic patients.
• Partners with health system colleagues to support goals and activities driving growth, revenue, quality, and cost control.
• Responsible for ensuring the compliance of all area specific clinical activities with federal, state, institutional, and accreditation-related policies.

Research Mission:

• Provides incentive and mentoring for faculty, residents, fellows and students in order to encourage and support scholarship and research.
• Supports research within the department as well as collaborative efforts with other programs in the university community.
• Encourages, facilitates, and supports all efforts to acquire research funding.

Educational Mission:

• Assures that high quality education programs are provided for postgraduate physician trainees within the department, as well as medical and other health profession students who rotate through the department; e.g., medical students, allied health students and nursing students. This responsibility extends to all outreach education programs.

MARGINAL OR PERIODIC FUNCTIONS:
Performs related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD or MD, Ph.D., be board certified specialty field and either licensed or eligible for medical licensure in Texas. (Clinical)
  Ph.D (or equivalent) in related field. (Basic Sciences)
• Demonstrated familiarity with academic administration in specialty field.
• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of a medical school/hospital environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain collegial relationships with peers, faculty, departmental staff, hospital administration, residents and students.
• A commitment to diversity, and a demonstrated ability to value the contributions of ethnic minorities and women to the clinical and academic enterprise.
• Familiarity with the process of scientific inquiry and factors that support this growth of research within an academic environment including the securing of research funds.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
MD and/or PhD degree and eight to ten years of related experience in a complex academic medical center.

SALARY:
Commensurate with experience.