Corewell Health East (CHE) in Southeast Michigan announces an exceptional opportunity for a nationally recognized physician leader to serve as the Regional Division Chief, Vascular Surgery, over seven campus facilities in the Detroit market.

The CHE Regional Division Chief will serve as an influential and highly visible leader and will execute the divisional strategy, vision, and clinical operations to promote Corewell Health East as a premier institution and destination for heart and vascular care. The Regional Division Chief will lead a talented team of vascular surgeons, wound and vein specialists to further identify opportunities to improve quality, grow specialty services, and advance organizational initiatives including safety, inclusion, and accountability. The Regional Division Chief will work closely with service line leaders in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery to ensure coordinated planning and support for all related services and patient care initiatives. The Regional Division Chief will foster collaboration and partner with programs and centers both regionally, across the state and nationally to extend existing clinical excellence, research, and education in vascular surgery. Of note, the Division Chief will work on pan-Michigan approaches to vascular care with leaders at Corewell Health West, in Grand Rapids, MI.

The US News & World Report has ranked William Beaumont University Hospital, Royal Oak, as one of the top hospitals in Michigan overall and is ranked 25th in the nation for Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery. In addition, several Corewell Health East hospitals are rated High Performing in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Aortic Valve Surgery, Heart Arrhythmia, Heart Attack, Heart Bypass Surgery, Heart Failure, Pacemaker Implantation, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

The Corewell Health East Heart & Vascular service line offers a quaternary portfolio of programs and services ranging from prevention to highly complex cardiovascular surgery with a strong foundation built on quality, service and excellence. Corewell Health East’s Heart & Vascular service line consists of seven hospitals with vascular surgery as a hub-and-spoke model with, William Beamont University Hospital, Royal Oak, being the quaternary hub for cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery, including a mature aortic center. The Heart & Vascular service line workforce is comprised of over a 1,300 dedicated and highly skilled medical professionals and staff: over 200 cardiologists, 9 cardiac surgeons, 20 vascular surgeons, 5 board certified vascular medicine cardiologists, and a dedicated wound/HBO surgeon. The regional facility footprint includes William Beaumont University Hospital (1,100 beds), Dearborn (632 beds) and Troy (530 beds), with smaller regional campuses at Trenton, Wayne, Grosse Pointe, Farmington Hills and Taylor. A total of twelve operating rooms with dedicated vascular surgery block time are available across the region, including an additional five hybrid operating rooms, 28 catheterization/electrophysiology labs, and multiple hyperbaric, wound center, and vascular lab locations.

Currently, the Division of Vascular Surgery, Vein and Limb Care includes 6 employed and 13 independent vascular surgeons. In 2025, our vascular surgeons performed approximately 3,500 vascular surgeries and read nearly 40,000 vascular imaging studies. In addition, our six employed surgeons completed almost 7,000 clinic visits last year.

Corewell Health East Heart & Vascular includes robust, active and productive research with numerous ongoing clinical trials and investigator-initiated studies. The research program has made pioneering advances in many fields including cardiac imaging, coronary intervention, electrophysiology, valve, and vascular disease. The Corewell Health Research Institute has a facility at WBUH with a robotic center of excellence and animal lab (vivarium) capabilities. WBUH is affiliated with Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Wayne State University School of Medicine. There are over 900 residents and fellows in 94 programs including fellowships in Vascular Surgery (2 Fellows) and Cardiology (37 fellows across 3 campuses).

The successful candidate will be a nationally recognized vascular surgeon and physician leader with an outstanding track record of program development, provider recruitment, and advancing quality and service initiatives to achieve the highest quality patient care.

Prior physician leadership experience in vascular surgery is required for this role. Furthermore, the candidate must have significant experience in advanced endovascular surgery and complex aortic work.

The CHE Division Chief of Vascular Surgery will serve as a senior thought leader, accountable for the overall strategic positioning and success of vascular surgery at CHE. The successful candidate will have responsibility for the ongoing development, integration, and optimization of CHE’s vascular surgery programs across the enterprise. This leader will have responsibility for programmatic growth, addition of new niche quaternary service (vein clinic strategy and limb preservation program) expanding market share, maximizing value, and increasing patient satisfaction, quality care delivery, standardization, clinician well-being, and financial performance across CHE. The leader will develop a roadmap for research platform growth and expansion of the ACGME Vascular Fellowship program. They will align with the system-wide clinical service line strategy and with Corewell Health’s overarching organizational strategy to ensure the program reflects its mission and its deep commitment to outstanding patient-centered care. 

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