Medical Director- Preoperative Evaluation Clinic Physician; MD

Medical Director
- Preoperative Evaluation Clinic Physician (MD/DO)

Fairfax, VA, United States

Job Identification: 675655

Posting Date: 11/25/2025, 10:10 PM

Job Schedule: Full time

Locations: Fairfax Medical Campus

Job Description: Inova's Preoperative Evaluation Clinic is seeking a strong leader to join as the Medical Director with the system. The Medical Director for the Preoperative Evaluation Clinic (PEC) provides strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for a system of preoperative evaluation sites and a centralized RN call center. This role is responsible for maintaining and expanding a standardized, high-quality approach to pre-procedure evaluation and optimization for all surgical patients across the enterprise, directly impacting patient safety, procedure efficiency, and care quality.

The Medical Director partners closely with perioperative leadership, nursing, anesthesia, surgery, and executive administration to ensure safe, effective, and efficient preoperative optimization for all surgical patients.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

• Serve as the primary clinical leader for Advanced Practice Providers (NPs and PAs) within the PEC, providing oversight, guidance, and clinical consultation for complex patient cases.
• Ensure adherence to evidence-based guidelines, clinical pathways, and scope-of-practice
  regulations.
• Conduct regular APP performance evaluations, participate in hiring, onboarding, and
  competency assessment, and support ongoing provider education and mentorship.
• Lead clinical and operational standardization across all PEC sites and the RN call center.
• Develop and update protocols, order sets, workflows, and policies consistent with best
  practices and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee scheduling models, throughput optimization, and clinic capacity planning.
• Monitor key quality metrics including case readiness, day-of-surgery cancellations, patient safety indicators, and surgical delays.
• Lead root‑cause analyses for perioperative incidents related to preoperative evaluation.
• Oversee continuous improvement initiatives, including preoperative optimization pathways (e.g., anemia, diabetes, cardiovascular risk).
• Develop dashboards and regularly report performance outcomes to perioperative leadership and hospital committees.
• Partner with Anesthesiology, Surgery, Nursing, and Perioperative Administration to ensure seamless patient preparation.
• Serve as the clinical liaison to hospital committees related to preoperative optimization, patient safety, and perioperative operations.
• Work collaboratively with the RN call center leadership to ensure effective triage, patient communication, and escalation pathways.
• Communicate updates, expectations, and policy changes effectively across all PEC team members and stakeholders.
• Provide education to APPs, RNs, residents, medical students, and other clinical staff regarding perioperative medicine.
• Develop standardized onboarding curriculum for new APPs and nurses within the PEC.
• Present system-level updates and performance reports to executive leadership, surgical councils, and quality committees.
• Identify opportunities to expand or enhance preoperative services, such as telehealth optimization, risk stratification tools, or specialty optimization clinics.
• Support long‑term growth planning for PEC services in alignment with system goals and surgical volume projections.
• Lead or participate in research, pilot projects, or innovation initiatives related to perioperative medicine.
• Maintain a standardized, system-wide approach for Pre‑Procedural Evaluation Clinics (PEC) and Pre‑Procedural Surgical Screenings (PSS) across all care sites.
• Align disparate site‑specific PEC and PSS centers into one cohesive system program.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and quality metrics for the PEC program, focusing on reducing surgical procedure cancellations, optimizing patient preparation, and minimizing delays in care.
• Provide direct clinical oversight and…