Job Details

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University seeks a Vice Chair for Quality and Safety. The Vice Chair will provide strategic leadership for departmental quality improvement, patient safety, clinical performance, and regulatory readiness while maintaining an active faculty appointment and clinical practice.

This role includes a system-level leadership responsibility with oversight of the Women’s Health Service Line Quality and Safety Committee. The Vice Chair will partner with departmental, hospital, and service line leaders to define priorities, improve outcomes, reduce variation, strengthen safety culture, and align quality initiatives across women’s health clinical sites.

Job Description

The selected candidate will be expected to lead, partner, teach, and practice across the following domains.

Quality and Safety Leadership

• Develop and implement the department’s quality and patient safety strategy.
• Provide oversight for the Women’s Health Service Line Quality and Safety Committee, including agenda development, priority setting, reporting, follow-through, and alignment with system goals.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives across obstetrics, gynecology, and subspecialty clinical programs.
• Establish measurable performance goals aligned with institutional and service line priorities.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, transparency, and continuous quality improvement.

Patient Safety and Event Review

• Lead departmental patient safety initiatives and partner with institutional patient safety leadership.
• Review adverse events, near misses, safety reports, and clinical trends relevant to women’s health.
• Facilitate action planning, escalation pathways, and follow-up for identified safety issues.
• Support multidisciplinary case review processes focused on learning, reliability, and prevention.

Clinical Performance Improvement

• Analyze departmental and service line quality metrics.
• Develop dashboards, performance reports, and accountability tools for clinical leaders.
• Benchmark outcomes against internal targets and national standards when available.
• Recommend interventions to improve clinical outcomes, patient experience, access, equity, and reliability.
• Use evidence-based improvement methods, including PDSA cycles, Lean, Six Sigma, high reliability principles, or similar approaches.

Regulatory Readiness and Risk Reduction

• Support compliance with accreditation, regulatory, payer, and institutional quality requirements.
• Partner with compliance, accreditation, risk management, nursing, operations, and medical staff leadership.
• Prepare the department and service line for surveys, inspections, and quality reviews.
• Identify clinical practice variation and partner with leaders to standardize evidence-based care.

Faculty Development, Education, and Scholarship

• Educate faculty, trainees, and staff on quality improvement and patient safety principles.
• Mentor physicians and trainees in quality improvement projects and scholarship.
• Integrate quality and safety concepts into medical student, resident, fellow, and continuing education programs.
• Support dissemination of quality and safety work through presentations, publications, and institutional forums.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Maintain an active clinical practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology or an Obstetrics and Gynecology subspecialty.
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care.
• Participate in departmental clinical coverage and service responsibilities as assigned.

Administrative Leadership

• Serve as a member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology executive leadership team.
• Represent the department on institutional, hospital, and service line quality committees.
• Collaborate with hospital and ambulatory leadership to improve clinical performance across care settings.
• Prepare reports on quality and safety outcomes for departmental and service line leadership.
• Participate in departmental strategic planning and annual goal setting.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or DO degree.
• Board certification or board eligibility in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
• Eligible for unrestricted medical licensure in Pennsylvania.
• Academic credentials sufficient for faculty appointment at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
• Demonstrated experience in quality improvement, patient safety, clinical performance improvement, or related healthcare leadership.
• Ability to collaborate across clinical divisions, hospitals, ambulatory sites, and system leadership structures.
• Commitment to education, mentorship, professionalism, inclusive excellence, and health equity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Academic appointment at the Associate Professor or Professor level, or qualifications sufficient for appointment at that rank.
• Formal training or certification in healthcare quality, patient safety, patient safety science, high reliability, Lean, Six Sigma, or related methodology.
• Experience leading quality and safety initiatives in an academic medical center or integrated health system.
• Experience preparing dashboards, performance reports, quality scorecards, or committee reports.
• Scholarly activity related to quality improvement, patient safety, implementation science, health services research, or outcomes improvement.
• Administrative leadership experience within a department, division, hospital, service line, or health system.

About Jefferson

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, an integrated university and health system serving the Delaware Valley. Sidney Kimmel Medical College is part of Thomas Jefferson University. Jefferson’s mission is to improve lives through health, education, and discovery.

Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from candidates who will contribute to an inclusive academic and clinical environment. Jefferson maintains a commitment to equal access to employment.

Application Materials

• Curriculum vitae.
• Cover letter describing relevant clinical, leadership, research, educational, or quality and safety experience.
• Names and contact information for professional references, if requested during the search process.
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