Physician, Vice Chair System Integration, Anesthesiology

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The West Virginia University Health System, the state’s largest health system and largest private employer, comprises 18 hospitals throughout the state and bordering states. In addition, it includes five institutes, as well as providing management services for other local hospitals through affiliate agreements.

Whether you are caring for our patients at one of the critical access hospitals, community sites, regional or academic medical centers, we are all one WVU Health System.

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West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology seek a Vice Chair for System Integration qualified for appointment at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor rank. The successful candidate will be expected to practice in Morgantown, WV.

The Vice Chair for System Integration is a senior physician leader responsible for advancing clinical excellence, operational alignment, quality performance, workforce stability, and strategic growth across the WVU Medicine system hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

Reporting to the Department Chair with a matrixed relationship to the President of System Medical Group (SMG), the Vice Chair serves as the primary partner to community hospital leadership. This role requires balancing system-wide standards with the independence and local identity of individual hospitals. Success in this position depends on building trust, fostering alignment, and leading through influence rather than authority.

The Vice Chair must maintain a visible, in-person presence across system hospitals and develop strong working relationships with each hospital CEO and CMO.

This position includes 50% protected administrative time to support system integration responsibilities, travel, leadership engagement, and quality improvement initiatives. The remaining 50% effort will be devoted to clinical practice.

Protected time may be adjusted upward as needed based on system priorities, growth initiatives, operational complexity, or evolving leadership responsibilities.

The successful candidate will practice in the areas of Anesthesiology. In addition to providing excellent patient care, the successful candidate will also be actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows.

• Serve as the primary liaison for anesthesiology between SMG and community hospital CEOs and CMOs.
• Build and sustain collaborative, trust-based relationships.
• Align SMG goals with hospital strategic priorities.
• In collaboration with the Chair, represent SMG-Anesthesiology in hospital-level leadership forums as appropriate.

• Travel to well-performing system hospitals approximately quarterly.
• Travel to hospitals requiring operational or quality support at least monthly until stability is achieved.
• Maintain regular in-person engagement with hospital leadership and anesthesia teams.
• Provide occasional clinical coverage at system hospitals when strategically or operationally necessary.

• Promote evidence-based perioperative best practices.
• Serve as the system’s ASPIRE/MPOG advisor: interpret dashboards, identify performance improvement priorities, and coach site quality leads on actionable improvement plans.
• Support local leaders in translating quality data into measurable frontline change.
• Guide development of consistent policies, staffing models, and operational frameworks.
• Lead collaborative improvement efforts at sites requiring additional support.

• Partner with local hospital CEOs, CMOs, and site anesthesia leaders to support physician and APP recruitment.
• Assist in developing staffing plans aligned with growth projections and operational needs.
• Participate in candidate interviews and recruitment events as appropriate.
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