Margaret T. and Larry K. Pickering Chair, Department of Pediatrics WVU School of Medicine

Margaret T. and Larry K. Pickering Chair, Department of Pediatrics, WVU School of Medicine seeks a new Chair in collaboration with WVU Hospitals/University Health Associates. This is an exceptional leadership opportunity for a physician with an unwavering commitment to excellence in clinical care, education, and research.

The Department of Pediatrics is the academic home to all pediatrics faculty and advanced practice providers at the WVU Children’s Hospital in Morgantown and other locations throughout the WVU Health System. The Department Chair will be responsible for overseeing the academic mission, strategy, and clinical operations in conjunction with a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate medical education, and interdisciplinary health sciences education.

This includes ensuring the delivery of the highest quality of evidence-based care and service, consistency in the quality standards of practice, and maintaining excellence across the academic spectrum enabling scholarly advances in the field. The Chair facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to achieve excellence in clinical care, education, and research in an environment in which collaboration is highly valued. The Chair will report to the Executive Chair of WVU Children’s Hospital, the Chancellor and Executive Dean of WVU Health Sciences.

Allocation of time is thirty percent clinical, and seventy percent toward administrative, educational and research.

• Works collaboratively with the Executive Chair of WVU Children’s Hospital, Chancellor & Executive Dean, Associate Deans, other Department Chairs, Program Directors, and faculty on curriculum for the medical school.
• Teaches medical students, residents and allied health professionals.
• Supports the Residency Program Director and complies with the standards of the Office of Graduate Medical Education.
• Maintains accreditation of all educational programs.
• Promotes the recruitment, retention, and mentoring of academic faculty within the Department.
• Assures continuing faculty development activities in education.
• Provides annual summative evaluation and oversight of all faculty within the department, particularly with regards to the promotion and tenure cycle, as well as ongoing formative evaluation and feedback.

• Participates in clinical service.
• Determines the qualifications and assesses the competency of all members of the department and coordinates and provides oversight of all medical staff as it relates to credentialing, re-credentialing, and privileging.
• Collaborates with clinical services to support a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Ensures that patient care delivery and clinical standards for the department are consistent with current professional guidelines, accreditation standards, and the mission, vision, and values of WVU Medicine.
• Monitors clinician, patient, referral, and employee satisfaction in accordance with organizational goals and guidelines, while maintaining clinical excellence.
• Ensures the practice of evidence-based medicine, as well as optimal patient care by clinicians.
• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer to develop and monitor continuous performance improvement.

• Participates in scholarly activities.
• Enables faculty to develop and enhance academic and professional development.
• Provides appropriate mentoring for academic, scholarly and professional growth.
• Encourages and rewards grant funding in education and training, basic, translational and clinical research.
• Seeks interdisciplinary collaboration in research and scholarly activities.
• Supervises and mentors faculty research focused on practice-changing contributions and scientific importance with a focus on high impact journals and national/international presentation.
• Mentors faculty and promotes development in voluntary national academic organizations.

• Oversees departmental finances with regards to the clinical practice and educational mission.
• Creates and executes an appropriate departmental budget, with the assistance of WVU Children’s Hospital, Departmental and Hospital Administrators, and…