Chief Medical Officer

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior physician executive of Ortho Virginia, responsible for the overall quality, safety, and clinical performance of the organization. This role combines strategic medical quality and safety improvement with physician leadership. The CMO works in close partnership with the CEO, executive leadership team, and the Board of Directors to advance Ortho Virginia’s mission of delivering best-in-class orthopedic outcomes through evidence-based, standardized care.

The ideal candidate is an orthopedic surgeon with a track record of physician leadership, clinical quality improvement, and peer engagement who thrives in a collaborative, data-driven environment.

• Provide strategic clinical oversight across all Ortho Virginia locations, ensuring consistent, high-quality, evidence-based patient care.
• Lead the development and implementation of clinical protocols, practice guidelines, and quality metrics aligned with organizational goals.
• Serve as the executive level senior physician decision maker in relation to clinical operations, patient safety, and care delivery.
• Develop, implement, and oversee the organization-wide clinical quality strategy, establishing measurable goals and key performance indicators aligned with national benchmarks and value-based care models.
• Champion the use of clinical registries, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and risk-adjusted outcomes data to drive continuous quality improvement across all Ortho Virginia regions.
• Lead the design and deployment of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways to reduce unwarranted variation and optimize outcomes in orthopedic care.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on quality metrics, complication rates, readmission rates, and patient satisfaction scores to the Board, executive leadership, and physician partners.
• Serve as the organizational expert on value-based care, bundled payment models, and payer quality requirements, ensuring Ortho Virginia remains competitive and aligned with evolving reimbursement paradigms.

• Advance and maintain a culture of patient safety across the organization, promoting transparent reporting, culture principles, and systems-based approaches to error prevention.
• Oversee the patient safety program, including adverse event review, root cause analysis, safety reporting systems, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety standards, including those set by CMS, The Joint Commission, AAAHC, and state medical boards.
• Lead safety-related communication to physicians, advanced practice providers, and clinical staff, ensuring timely dissemination of safety alerts, best practices, and lessons learned.

• Drive clinical standardization initiatives across the organization, including surgical protocols, perioperative care pathways, implant selection and utilization management, and post-operative rehabilitation programs.
• Collaborate with subspecialty physician leaders to develop and maintain consensus-based clinical protocols that balance standardization with appropriate physician autonomy.
• Lead formulary and implant committees to evaluate clinical evidence, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes data to guide supply chain decisions without compromising patient care.
• Identify and reduce unwarranted clinical variation through data transparency, physician education, and constructive peer-to-peer engagement.

• Oversee the peer review program, ensuring it operates in a fair, objective, confidential, and legally protected manner in…