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Director of Quality Improvement and Safety

Employer
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Closing date
Dec 31, 2019

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Profession
Physician
Specialty
Pediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh are recruiting for a Director of Quality Improvement and Safety in the Division of Newborn Medicine.  The candidate must have completed a Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship program and be Board Certified/Eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.  We are seeking an individual who will qualify for the academic rank of Associate or Full Professor and one who will maintain accountability for leading the clinical and specified administrative operations related to quality improvement and safety for the division. Additionally, this candidate will work collaboratively with The Wolff Center that supports quality, safety and healthcare innovation throughout the UPMC system  (www.upmc.com/about/why-upmc/quality/about). A secondary appointment as a Medical Director at the Wolff Center will also be provided to foster system wide QI initiatives.

Our Division has thirty neonatal faculty.  We have a twelve fellow Neonatal-Perinatal medicine fellowship training program.  Our core NICUs at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Magee Womens Hospital include a 55 bed level-4 unit and a 77 bed level- 3 unit with 11,000 deliveries, respectively. In addition to these two sites, we manage five community NICUs with a total of 44 beds and 7,300 deliveries.

Interested candidates should forward a letter of interest and their CV to QI Search Committee: c/o Tom Diacovo, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Chief, Division of Newborn Medicine. E-mail: diacovot@upmc.edu.

 

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