Associate​/Professor of Medicine

Title Associate/ Professor of Medicine Specific Title Division Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine Appointment Type Open Department IUSM
- Medicine
- General Internal Medicine Campus IU School of Medicine Indianapolis Position Summary

The Department of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) seeks an accomplished academic physician leader to serve as the founding Chief of a new Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine. Two new divisions are being established through the strategic restructuring of the current Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, the second being the new ‘Division of Aging, Geriatric Medicine, and Palliative Care’.

This restructuring is a deliberate investment in focused leadership intended to sustain and accelerate academic growth and excellence in the Department’s generalist and acute care missions.

An Overview of Sections and Research Centers

• Section of Hospital Medicine (approximately 180 faculty members). The largest section in the Department, with faculty engaged in clinical care, scholarship and research, and teaching in hospital medicine care across IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center.
• Section of General Internal Medicine (approximately 15 faculty members). The academic home for general internal medicine, including research faculty in health services research, biomedical informatics, global health, health equity, and medical ethics, and faculty who hold key educational leadership roles across the Department of Medicine and IUSM.
• Section of Primary Care Internal Medicine (approximately 85 faculty members). Ambulatory internal medicine practice and general internal medicine care is an area of critical workforce need statewide and a stated development priority of the division’s faculty. Faculty provide general internal medicine and medicine-pediatrics care across IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center.

A retrospective of the Division’s activities in the academic year 2025-26 can be viewed here
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Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Medicine, the Division Chief provides academic, clinical, financial, and operational leadership for the division across all sites and sections. The Chief recruits, develops, and retains faculty; sets and executes the Division’s strategic plan in alignment with both the Department of Medicine 2026 to 2031 Strategic Plan and IUSM’s strategic priorities
; oversees the division’s budget and clinical performance in partnership with our health system partners; advances the Division’s research, scholarship, and educational missions; and represents the Division within the Department, the School, our affiliated health systems, and nationally.

This leadership role is expected to reflect a mix of clinical practice and research or scholarly activity, configured with the Chair to fit the successful candidate’s academic profile.

• Develop, in partnership with faculty, staff, and the Chair, the founding strategic plan for the Division and for each of its three sections.
• Build a Division leadership team with clear accountability and create visible leadership development opportunities for faculty across all three sections.
• Align the Division’s missions across sites, employer groups, and stakeholders, and represent the Division’s interests in health system planning.

• Elevate the Division’s undergraduate and graduate medical education mission, in close partnership with the internal medicine residency, the medical student clerkship, and IUSM educational leadership.
• Support the academic advancement of clinician educators,…