Program Director Oregon Poison Center; OPC)

Department Overview

Join us at OHSU and help shape the future of public health in Oregon and beyond as the Program Director of the Oregon Poison Center. This high-impact leadership role drives statewide strategy, legislative engagement, funding development, public education, and key partnerships that sustain one of the region’s most vital emergency response resources. Working alongside clinical and academic leaders, you will influence policy, secure critical investments, and advance innovative programs that protect communities across Oregon and Guam.

If you're a visionary healthcare or public health leader who thrives on building partnerships and creating lasting impact, this is your opportunity to make a difference every day.

The Program Director of the Oregon Poison Center (OPC) provides leadership for the Center’s programmatic,business, legislative, funding, public education, and external relations functions. This role advances OPC’slong-term sustainability and alignment with state, federal, and institutional priorities, while working in close partnership with OPC clinical leadership and the Medical Director, who retain responsibility for clinical operations, quality, and workforce management.

The Program Director holds primary responsibility for developing and executing a sustainable funding strategy for OPC, including leadership of state and federal legislative engagement, public appropriations support,contracts, and grant development, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), OHSUGovernment Relations, and America’s Poison Centers (APC). The role represents OPC with government agencies, public health partners, funders, and external stakeholders to ensure alignment with public health priorities, statutory requirements, and national poison center policies.

The Program Director provides oversight and direction for OPC’s public education and poison prevention programming, including direct supervision of the OPC Public Educator, to ensure programs are evidence-based, appropriately targeted, and aligned with public health priorities and funding requirements.

In collaboration with clinical and operational leaders, the Program Director supports OPC’s participation in national data, accreditation, and reporting frameworks and advances the Center’s mission as a critical component of Oregon’s public health and emergency response infrastructure. The Oregon Poison Center is a 24 hour emergency response center providing information to effectively triageand assist in management of patients experiencing a poisoning or toxic exposure.

The Oregon Poison center serves the public as well as health care providers throughout Oregon and Guam. The center serves patients ofall age groups. The Registered Nurses and Pharmacists in the Oregon Poison Center maintain responsibility for answering the emergency phone lines of the poison center.

Physician Faculty provide consultative expertise in patient management. Primary responsibility includes patient assessment, provision of treatment recommendations and facilitating appropriate referral to a health care facility if necessary. The OPC maintains a public education program to promote poison prevention and provides professional education to students or various disciplines, including nursing, medicine, pharmacy practice and prehospital care.

Office-based setting. Occasional remote work available. The position requires intermittent travel for national poison center or professional meetings and rotational, as-needed travel to the Oregon State Capitol for legislative or governmental engagement. Occasional travel within and outside of Oregon may be required for stakeholder meetings or public education activities. Availability outside…