Division Head, General Pediatrics

On behalf of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) and Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH), Career Physician, LLC, the national leader in executive search and leadership development in Academic Child Health, is pleased to announce the international search for a transformational leader to serve as Division Head of
General Pediatrics
. The Division has established itself as one of the best programs of General Pediatrics in the nation, and represents an outstanding group of investigators, educators and clinicians who value equity, advocacy, excellence, and innovation as key drivers in the promotion of compassionate, evidence-based care, especially to vulnerable children. The role represents one of the top leadership opportunities available today in academic child health with unmatched potential to shape the future of General Pediatrics for years to come.

• Strong commitment to equity, community partnership, and culturally responsive care.
• Broad clinical reach and diverse patient population - Division’s clinics and continuity sites include major urban safety-net sites, outpatient and inpatient programs, including newborn nursery at UWMC, neighborhood clinics, and adoption medicine.
• Ability to leverage broad faculty expertise to engage in innovative scientific discovery leading to the effective transfer of new knowledge into innovative patient care and population health solutions.

• Support the WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) which allows for broad geographic scope and impact.
• Established leader in innovation in training and care models that places division and faculty at the forefront of longitudinal care and team-based interdisciplinary care paradigms.

• Residency program in the Department of Pediatrics explicitly embeds a “Health Equity Track” and emphasizes justice, inclusion, and reducing health disparities.

• Robust faculty and institutional support with more than 30 investigators, across multiple thematic areas; injury and violence prevention, screening and intervention around health and risk behaviors, mental health care access, autism and developmental delay screening and intervention, health equity and community-based research, effects of media on youth, and environmental health.
• Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI) received $258, 329,503 in total extramural funding in 2024 and is one of the Nation’s Top Five Pediatric Research Centers.

The Division works to advance child health at the local, regional, national, and international levels by:

• Leveraging the broad expertise of our faculty to engage in innovative scientific discovery and translate new knowledge into practice to address the evolving needs of pediatric care and population health.
• Training future generations of pediatric experts through excellence in clinical and research mentorship and medical education.
• Striving for universal access to comprehensive, evidence-based, culturally congruent, and compassionate care in partnership with our diverse families and communities.
• Partnering with communities to address the social determinants of health and to collaboratively intervene on the policies and factors that influence these determinants.
• Fostering professional development and creating an inclusive environment that attracts and retains diverse and excellent faculty and staff.

The division has clinical programs at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Harborview Medical Center, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, the University of Washington Medical Center, and various other community-based sites. Over 60 faculty in General Pediatrics are affiliated with a number of research centers at the University of Washington and in the Seattle Children's Research Institute. The division is home to an outstanding residency training program, a pediatric injury research fellowship, health services and quality of care research fellowship, a child abuse medicine fellowship, and a sports medicine fellowship.

Appointment as a full-time Associate Professor (without tenure due to funding) or Professor (without tenure due to funding) of Pediatrics at the University…