Nephrology - Division Director - Associate​/Full Professor

Overview

The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension seeks a visionary, dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as the next division director.

Key responsibilities of the position include:

• Developing and leading transformational clinical, research and educational programs
• Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise
• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff from varied backgrounds and experiences through mentorship and development of academic skills to fulfill the division’s mission and responsibilities, including promoting a culture of collaboration and patient-centered care
• Practicing financial sustainability by managing division budgets, resource allocation, and by identifying funding opportunities and diversifying revenue streams
• Achieving excellence in every activity, including business and support functions
• Providing impartial and visionary leadership by striking a proper balance of “Division and Institution” with uncompromising integrity and ethics
• Continuous and enduring advocacy to garner support and resources for all division members to ensure their success
• Creates transparent internal decision-making systems that foster accountability and enables leaders to set priorities and monitor performance against key strategic and operational goals

• Provides leadership for all our clinical care services, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that drive clinical excellence and reputation
• Monitors, ensures, and is accountable for faculty, physician, and staff productivity, wellness, and organizational engagement
• Ensures compliance with medical center policies and State and Federal regulations
• Serves as the direct liaison to the Chair of Pediatrics/In-Chiefs/CCHMC Executive Leadership team to promote and share the Division’s success, while promoting the broader institutional success of CCHMC

• Provides leadership for all our research programs, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that enhance our research reputation and drive clinical innovation
• Discerns and leads ideal blends of basic, translational, clinical, quality improvement, and outcomes research portfolios
• Provides a strategic vision to lead and cultivate an environment conducive to transformative research
• Enhances CCHMC’s ability to successfully compete for extramural programmatic funding through collaborative and collegiate research
• Recruits, develops, and retains research faculty within the Division
• Oversees research quality and compliance initiatives

• Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming
• Provides supervision and review of education and training programs in Nephrology and Hypertension for medical students, pediatric residents, and nephrology fellows
• Assesses the quality of teaching by faculty, assuring professionalism
• Promotes continuing education programs for professionals, including hospital teaching rounds and lectures
• In conjunction with the clinical fellowship training director and other key stakeholders, is responsible for planning, developing, administering, and evaluating the interdisciplinary professional education programs.
• Overseeing educational/training programs and ensuring effective mentorship and guidance of trainees

• Assuring professionalism and a positive culture across division faculty and staff, and adherence to the Cincinnati Children’s mission
• Maintaining and expanding the extensive interdisciplinary network of interactions with other Divisions and Departments at CCHMC, University of Cincinnati, other academic centers, and industry partners
• Serves as an effective and inspirational legislative and policy advocate on behalf of CCHMC
• Actively participates in and leads community involvement and programs. With representatives of relevant community and state agencies, studies community needs and reviews on a regular basis

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension:

The division aspires to be the global leader in improving the care and outcomes for children with kidney diseases by providing clinical care to children with kidney and hypertensive…