Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Division Director - Associate​/Full Professor

Overview

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry seeks a visionary, dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as the next division director.

Key responsibilities of the position include:

• Developing and leading transformational clinical and research programs
• Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise
• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff through mentorship and development of academic skills to fulfill the division’s mission and responsibilities, including promoting a culture of collaboration and patient-centered care
• Practicing financial sustainability by managing division budgets, resource allocation, and by identifying funding opportunities and diversifying revenue streams
• Providing impartial and visionary leadership by striking a proper balance of “Division/Institute and Institution” with uncompromising integrity and ethics
• Creating transparent internal decision-making systems that foster accountability and enables leaders to set priorities and monitor performance against key strategic and operational goals

• Monitoring, ensuring, and accounting for faculty, physician, and staff productivity, wellness, and organizational engagement
• Ensuring compliance with all medical center policies and applicable State and Federal regulations
• Serving as the direct liaison to the Chair of Pediatrics/In-Chiefs/CCHMC Executive Leadership team to promote and share the Division/Institute’s success, while promoting the broader institutional success of CCHMC

• Discerning and leading ideal blends of basic, translational, outcomes and clinical research portfolios
• Providing a strategic vision to lead and cultivate an environment conducive to transformative research
• Recruiting, developing, and retaining outstanding research faculty within the Institute
• In conjunction with the divisional Research Director, overseeing research quality and compliance initiatives

• Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming
• Providing supervision and review of the division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry education and training programs
• Assessing the quality of teaching by faculty, assuring professionalism
• Promoting continuing education programs for professionals, including teaching rounds and lectures
• Planning, developing, administering, and evaluating the interdisciplinary professional education programs in conjunction with the clinical fellowship training directors and other key stakeholders
• Overseeing educational/training programs and ensuring effective mentorship of trainees

• Embracing and strengthening a culture of belonging
• Assuring professionalism and a positive culture across division faculty and staff, and adherence to the Cincinnati Children’s mission
• Maintaining and expanding the extensive interdisciplinary network of interactions with other Divisions and Departments at CCHMC, other academic centers, and industry partners
• Serving as an effective and inspirational legislative and policy advocate on behalf of CCHMC
• Actively participating in and leading community involvement and programs
• With representatives of relevant community and state agencies, studying community needs and reviewing on a regular basis

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology (BMCP), and the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric make up the MBHI at Cincinnati Children’s. Formed in 2023, the MBHI merges research, medical, patient, and educational services arms and its community partnerships into one unit, guided by a single clinical mission to transform developmental, behavioral, and mental health care within Cincinnati Children’s and the greater Cincinnati community to ensure patients and their families receive the right level of care at the right time.

The MBHI is also addressing creating synergies across the three divisions’ research, educational, advocacy, and community partnership efforts. The ideal candidate is committed to innovative, interdisciplinary efforts to improve care, from prevention to inpatient treatment, through clinical…