Medical Director, Adult Emergency Department

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine seeks an exceptional Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician to serve as Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department
. This leadership position includes a full-time faculty appointment in the Clinician Educator Line. Academic rank will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Candidates at the Assistant, Associate, and Professor levels will be considered, with preference for individuals who qualify for appointment at the Associate Professor or Professor level.

Stanford Emergency Medicine is internationally recognized for its commitment to precision emergency medicine, leveraging data, technology, and innovation to improve the care of individual patients and communities. Key areas of focus include advancing access to care, digital health and artificial intelligence, human-centered data science, population and global health, and the redesign of medical education. We seek a physician leader who shares this vision and is committed to advancing the future of emergency care delivery through operational excellence, innovation, and collaboration.

The Adult Medical Director serves as a key member of the Department's Clinical Operations Leadership Team and is responsible for providing physician leadership for Stanford's Adult Emergency Department, a modern 66-bed emergency department with an integrated Clinical Decision Unit located within a state-of-the-art academic medical center. Working closely with the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, hospital leadership, nursing leaders, quality and informatics teams, and departmental faculty leaders, the Medical Director will help shape the strategic direction of emergency care delivery across Stanford Health Care.

The successful candidate will lead efforts to optimize patient access, flow, capacity management, quality, safety, and patient experience while fostering a culture of physician engagement, professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Medical Director will represent Emergency Medicine within interdisciplinary and health system leadership forums and will partner with colleagues across Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Observation Medicine, EMS, Digital Health, and affiliated regional clinical sites to advance an integrated clinical enterprise.

We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in one or more areas relevant to modern emergency care delivery, including emergency department operations, patient flow and throughput, quality and process improvement, clinical informatics, digital health, data science, clinical decision support, innovative care models, artificial intelligence, or health system transformation.

Clinical responsibilities include providing care in the emergency department at Stanford Hospital, a world-renowned academic medical center with approximately 90,000 adult emergency department visits annually. Stanford Emergency Medicine includes more than 120 board-certified emergency physicians with broad scholarly interests and substantial extramural funding. The department sponsors 13 fellowship programs, a four-year residency program, required and advanced medical student clerkships, and a wide range of educational programs across Stanford University.

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the…