Department Chair of Radiology, Denver Health Medical Center:

Denver Health Medical Center in the heart of Denver, CO, in collaboration with the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU SOM), is seeking a clinically skilled and experienced leader, educator, manager, and communicator for the position of Department Chair of Radiology at Denver Health. The Department Chair will have oversight of all care delivered by the Department of Radiology at Denver Health and will provide overall leadership. The chair will be responsible for strategic planning, clinical services, professional performance, business performance, and medical education for the department.

The Department Chair for Radiology at Denver Health will be a senior faculty member with a demonstrated reputation of excellence in clinical care, teaching, mentoring, and scholarship. They will be qualified for appointment in the University of Colorado School of Medicine - Department of Radiology to the rank of Associate Professor or Professor.

The Chair will have oversight of all care delivered in the Department of Radiology at Denver Health, including the following services and modalities: Bone Densitometry (DEXA), Breast Imaging, Computed Tomography (CT), Diagnostic Radiography, Interventional Radiology (IR), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine, and Ultrasound (US). The chair will provide overall strategic leadership of Radiologists, the Administrative Director of Radiology, and all support staff who serve patients through radiologic services, including contracted service providers. They will have responsibility for strategic planning, clinical services, professional performance, business performance, regulatory compliance, medical education, physician practice, and departmental culture. Advancing a culture of excellence in radiology and related services, the Chair will be dedicated to performance expectations, which provide for the highest quality patient care and consistency in clinical care standards, driven by patient safety requirements and clinical outcomes monitoring.

 Reporting Relationships

The Chair will report to the Chief Medical Officer, Denver Health.  They will have a matrixed reporting relationship to the Chair of Radiology at the CU SOM exclusively for academic roles and responsibilities.

 Department Chair Direct Reports:

• Associate Chairs of Radiology
• Radiology physicians (22)
• Radiology APPs (2)
• Administrative Assistant to the Department Chair

 Department Chair Indirect Reports:

• Administrative Director (AD) of Radiology (reports directly to Associate Chief Operating Officer)
• Radiology Analyst (reports to AD)
• Radiology residents/fellows in collaboration with CU SOM
• Medical Physicist-Radiation Safety Officer (externally contracted)

The Organization

Denver Health is uniquely positioned as an integrated healthcare system, nationally recognized for its passion and commitment in providing exceptional care to the communities it serves. Denver Health is considered a national model of an integrated urban safety net health care system that includes a 525 bed acute care hospital, with new adult and pediatric emergency departments, the 911 paramedic system, nine community health centers, 19 school-based clinics, the public health department, the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, a 100 bed non-medical detoxification center, a dedicated psychiatric emergency service, correctional care facilities, the Rocky Mountain Center for the Medical response to Terrorism, Mass Casualties and Epidemics, and an HMO. The Denver Health Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center has been recognized as a preeminent Level I Trauma Center, with one of the best trauma survival rates in the country.

Denver Health is formally affiliated with the University of Colorado, School of Medicine (CU-SOM), and Denver Health faculty have full-time academic appointments. The Chair has primary responsibility for all aspects of the scholarly and educational programs based at the Denver Health Medical Center and will foster collaboration, innovation, and excellence in meeting our joint missions. The new Chair will be an individual who has a passion for providing outstanding care to the underserved, a desire to improve systems and processes to maximize efficiency, the leadership to engage staff at all levels, and an enduring commitment to training the next generation of physicians.

Procedure for Candidacy

Nominations, expressions of interest should be submitted to:

Aaron Ortiz, Manager of Provider Recruitment

Denver Health Medical Center

Aaron.ortiz@dhha.org

All discussions about this search will be handled in strict confidence.

About Denver Health Medical Center

Denver Health is an integrated, efficient, academic health care system that is considered a model for the nation. As Colorado’s primary safety net institution, Denver Health provides the full spectrum of medical services from primary to oncologic care. Serving one third of the city of Denver, as well as patients from outside Denver, Denver Health provides primary care services via a citywide network of community health centers, school-based health clinics, and a soon-to-open 7-story 293,000 square foot outpatient medical center. Inpatient services are housed in multiple campus buildings with 555 adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN beds. Denver Health is committed to serving all patients, regardless of the ability to pay. Denver Health’s Emergency Medicine program is nationally renowned, with over 120,000 patient visits per year, and with a nationally recognized stand-alone emergency medicine residency. Denver Health’s Level 1 Trauma Center is one of the world’s leading trauma centers and has amongst the highest survival rates in the country. The trauma center sees 18,000 patients annually, 2700 of whom are admitted, and many of whom arrive as transfers from any one of 60 regional hospital...s. The trauma service is extraordinarily academically productive with millions in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and United States Department of Defense (DoD). The seminal text “Trauma” was authored by Denver Health faculty. Denver Health is affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine. All faculty at Denver Health have University appointments and are valued participants in University and Department of Radiology functions. Faculty have access to the academic and cultural resources of Denver Health, the University, and other affiliate institutions.

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