Senior Vice President of Community Pediatrics

The SVP of Community Pediatrics will provide strategic leadership for Goldberg Center and CNPA, fostering excellence in research, clinical care, and education. The ideal candidate will possess strong academic qualifications and a minimum of five years’ experience leading physicians in an academic or clinical setting.

The SVP will lead the community pediatricians and primary care providers in the Children’s National system. This physician leader will oversee all administrative, clinical, financial, and strategic aspects of the community physicians employed by or affiliated with Children’s National. Along with their executive business parter, the SVP will report directly to the Executive Vice President/Chief Clinical Officer.

• Demonstrated record of academic achievement in neuroscience or a related field
• At least five years of experience in physician leadership
• Commitment to advancing interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation
• Proven ability to mentor and develop faculty and staff
• Experience with cross-sectional leadership and hospital governance
• Experience with Clinically Integrated Networks and health systems delivering primary and specialty care
• Quality and Safety experience
• Medical Degree
• Understanding of the finances of advancing pediatric care for patients
• Strong communicator with a vision for innovation and advancement of the field

Interested candidates are invited to submit their application materials to Dr. Wayne J. Franklin, Senior Vice President of the Heart and Lung Center at Children’s National.

Children’s National Hospital, based in Washington, D.C., was established in 1870 to help every child grow up stronger. Today, the 323-bed acute care hospital is the only freestanding healthcare facility exclusively for children and the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the Washington, D.C.

-Baltimore metropolitan area. Children’s National serves as the regional referral center for pediatric emergency, trauma, cancer, critical care as well as cardiology and pediatric cardiac surgery, neonatology, orthopedic surgery, neurology and neurosurgery. Children’s National has a regional presence, with 16 specialty care centers spread throughout Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. and two ambulatory surgery centers in Maryland. The Pediatric Health Network is the region’s premier pediatric-focused clinically integrated network with 1,500 primary and specialty care physicians and Children’s National owns another 17 primary care offices located throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C. Children’s National is ranked as a top hospital in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report in the 2025-26 Best Children’s Hospitals annual rankings.

This marks the ninth straight year Children’s National has made the Honor Roll list, a distinction awarded to only 10 children’s hospitals nationwide.

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