Vice Chair Clinical Programs & Network Affairs

Job Description:

BIDMC Psychiatry Vice Chair for Clinical Programs & Network Affairs

The Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, is a Vice Chair for Clinical Programs & Network Affairs to provide current and future-focused clinical and academic leadership across the Department’s psychiatric clinical enterprise and to represent the Department across BIDMC-affiliated institutions and the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) network.

This role will direct departmental clinical services, In addition to strategic planning and integrative activities, with a focus on process improvement, faculty support, long-term clinical vision, care model design, academic integration and network alignment. A Harvard Medical School appointment at the rank of assistant or associate professor would be commensurate with the record of accomplishments.

The Vice Chair will lead the development and advancement of the Department’s clinical strategy across inpatient, emergency, consultation-liaison, outpatient, addiction, interventional, and specialty psychiatric programs, and oversee clinical operations of the Department’s acute and intensive psychiatry services.

The Vice Chair will partner with departmental clinical and operational leaders responsible for program management, quality, safety, and regulatory functions. A central component of the role is senior strategic oversight of the Department’s clinical services to ensure alignment with departmental priorities, system goals, and evolving standards of care.

The position emphasizes innovation, scalability, and cross-institutional integration to support high-value, equitable, patient-centered psychiatric care across the continuum. The Department of Psychiatry is deeply committed to delivering high-quality, safe, equitable, and accessible psychiatric care to a diverse patient population while advancing excellence in education, research, and innovation.

This position will shape the future direction of the Department’s clinical enterprise by designing and evaluating emerging models of care and facilitating their alignment with institutional and system priorities, with particular attention to the clinical, workforce, and system demands of psychiatric care.

The Vice Chair will work closely with the Department Chair, Vice Chairs, Service Chiefs, and institutional leaders across BIDMC, BIDMC-affiliated hospitals, academic partners, and the BILH system to align and integrate psychiatric clinical strategy across settings and sites, including coordination and strategic integration of acute and intensive psychiatric services across the network.

The Vice Chair will report directly to the Chair, serve as a member of the Department’s Executive Leadership Team, and provide ongoing clinical care within the Department in one or more clinical settings consistent with departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. Preference is for clinical work to be provided in the acute and intensive psychiatric service setting.

Interested candidates should have: MD from an accredited medical school Board-certified or eligible in Psychiatry A valid MA medical license or the ability to obtain one Federal DEA and Mass Controlled Substance certificate Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 743-bed hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, is a founding member of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH). BILH, a health care system with 14 hospitals, brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, and more than 4,000 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access and advance the science and practice of medicine through…