Vice Chair Informatics and AI, Department of Radiology

Vice Chair for Informatics and AI, Department of Radiology, Dartmouth Health

Dartmouth Health’s Department of Radiology is seeking a Vice Chair (VC) for Informatics and AI (IAI) to join our dynamic Department in the beautiful Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the system’s central clinical hub and Academic Medical Center, is located immediately adjacent to bustling college town of Hanover, NH. Hanover is home to the world‑renowned Dartmouth College and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

We are seeking a skilled, visionary, and impactful radiologist leader to define and execute a vision for integrating cutting‑edge IT and AI systems built into a dynamic Department of Radiology. Responsibilities for the role include building and executing on an overall strategy for IT systems, informatics infrastructure, and AI used by radiologists and other radiology staff. The Radiology Vice Chair of Informatics and AI will also serve a central role at the system level by virtue of the Department generating the vast majority of medical imaging at the institution.

Dartmouth Health Radiology interprets imaging from 10 hospitals and a number of out‑patient imaging centers, so the reach of the Department and the VC role is wide.

We envision this Vice Chair will help build out a modern, feature‑rich, world‑class enterprise‑wide imaging platform that transcends sites and departments. The Vice Chair will also be our point person for building and enacting strategy around the exploding world of AI in medical imaging. In total, the Vice Chair will have broad impact, with leadership responsibilities across Dartmouth Health and at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

For her or his clinical component, the Vice Chair will join a clinical section based on their subspecialty interest and preferred practice area (e.g. abdominal imaging, neuroradiology, mammography, etc).

The Vice Chair for Informatics and AI will be a nationally known leader in the field of imaging informatics, one capable of vision setting and execution. In addition to expertise in informatics, she or he will have a reputation for excellence in clinical care, teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. The Vice Chair for Informatics and AI will provide the primary physician oversight (working in conjunction with our dedicated and engaged technical staff) of our fleet of IT software and hardware that supports the Department.

By virtue of the broad role software plays in our Department, the VC role supports the three core pillars of this mission‑driven department:

• Clinical Excellence

The clinical mission is served by having an updated, modern, and feature‑rich PACS. We have a speedy and stable PACS, but are looking to contract for an updated, enterprise‑wide, feature‑rich PACS that will serve radiology and other Departments for the foreseeable future. We read for 10 hospitals and countless imaging sites, so the new PACS selected will be widely deployed. The clinical mission also requires a cutting‑edge dictation and reporting system.

We are in the middle stages of updating this software package. In both cases, leadership from a skilled Vice of Informatics and AI is sought to guide this process to an optimal outcome. We currently have AI algorithms deployed, but in this rapidly changing landscape, developing a proactive strategy to remain on the cutting edge would be in the purview of this position.

In addition, countless smaller stand‑alone software packages are deployed at any given time; the VC for IAI would have responsibility as the chief physician focused on informatics.

• Educational Excellence

The Dartmouth Health Department of Radiology is a national leader in teaching radiology to medical students, with numerous nationally and internationally recognized educators and extensive dissemination of scholarly work pertaining educational techniques and novel programs. Dartmouth Radiology hosts multiple outstanding residencies, including in Diagnostic Radiology and an integrated DR/IR program, as well as multiple fellowships. Our students, residents, and fellows need to be facile with…