Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children’s) and are seeking a visionary and collaborative physician leader with a strong clinical and academic foundation to serve as Chief of one of the largest clinical Divisions of Pulmonology/Sleep medicine in the country and a robust and highly productive research program.
The Division Chief will serve as the primary clinical leader for pediatric pulmonology/sleep services at the Egleston/Arthur M. Blank, Scottish Rite campuses, providing strategic leadership and oversight for quality, safety, and clinical operations. This leader will be dedicated to the implementation of professional and clinical care standards, team-based care driven by evidence-based care guidelines and mutual accountability. As the leader of the Division, the Chief will be responsible for clinical program development, faculty recruitment, the advancement of research, scholarly activity, and educational excellence of faculty and trainees within the Division.
The Division chief will have oversight of a vibrant and productive research program that includes 13 PhD scientists in addition to physician scientists bringing in $15M in extramural funding over the last year. Research is inclusive of wet lab basic science, translational science, and clinical and outcomes research. Wet and dry lab space is assigned in the Emory Children’s Center Building, Children’s Center for Advanced Pediatrics, and Children’s hospitals.
The Division Chief is a visible, inspiring leader with a clinical and academic presence to foster credibility and to develop an appreciation for Pulmonary, Asthma, CF & Sleep physicians and MD and PhD researchers. This position requires an individual who has a passion for providing outstanding care, a desire to improve systems to maximize efficiency, the leadership to engage clinicians in team-based care while supporting research, education, and advocacy. This Division Chief will craft the long-term vision for the PACS Division in the Department of Pediatrics, and for the pulmonology/sleep medicine at Children’s, holding the team accountable.
Reporting Relationships
Reports to the Pediatrician in Chief, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine.
Direct Reports:
• Practice Director, Hospital
• Practice Director, Ambulatory
• Practice Director, Quality
• Director Technology, Dependence
• Pediatric Pulmonology/sleep Research Director
The Division Chief must be comfortable operating in a highly matrixed environment to be an effective leader at Children’s/Emory.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Candidate Qualifications
The candidate will have the following credentials:
Education and Certification Summary
Experience and Skills
Department of Pediatrics Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis & Sleep Clinical Program
Children’s and Emory are recognized as national leaders in pediatric pulmonology/sleep medicine advancing clinical, research, education, and community service with the goal of top performance across all key mission areas. The incumbent pulmonology/sleep medicine leader will have the opportunity to drive a vision and to shape the growth of a program across two hospitals and the opening of the new state-of-the-art Arthur M. Blank Hospital. The hospital, anticipated to open in 2025, will have 446 beds including 24 TICU beds providing a full spectrum of advanced respiratory support, including invasive mechanical ventilation and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation and will be a full-service facility for pediatric inpatient medical care, providing a once in a career opportunity for this leader to transition to a new facility. Children’s Pulmonology/sleep is national recognized for asthma, cystic fibrosis, complex pulmonary diseases, and sleep disorders. With over 30 physicians, 16 APPs, and 6 pulmonology and 4 sleep fellows, in 2022, Children’s provided care to over 17,000 pulmonology patients and 700 bronchoscopies and 5000 sleep patients along with 4500 sleep interpretations across our system. The Children’s + Emory CF Care Center is one of the largest in the country following over 700 CF patients aged a few weeks to 80 years old.
Department of Pediatrics Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis & Sleep Research Program
The PACS Division includes a strong, collaborative research program that includes 13 PhD scientists in addition to several clinician scientists. All researchers are members of the Emory + Children’s Center for CF and Airways Disease Research which also includes scientists participating from across Emory and Georgia Tech. Research areas include airway/mucosal immunology and inflammation and the pathophysiology and microbiome of CF. Available to researchers is a CF Biospecimen Core. Over 90% of the CF patients followed at the Children’s + Emory Pediatric CF Care Center have consented to provide biologic samples to the core, providing a rich resource for basic and translational research. In addition, a cloud-based “Georgia CF Data Warehouse” is in development that will serve as a data repository for CF-related clinical and laboratory data available to researchers. The PACS research program is funded through 11 NIH awards in addition to awards from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, other federal sources and foundations, and many industry-funded clinical trials.
Pulmonary and Sleep Fellowship Programs
Our Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep fellowship programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and offer a two/three-year training program. The programs include training and experience in clinical, epidemiological, and quality research with mentorship both within and external to the Pulmonology/sleep Division. Fellows have opportunities to pursue research projects through established collaborations the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, as well as through collaborations within the Divisions in the Department of Pediatrics and School of Medicine. The faculty educate residents from the Emory University pediatric residency program, the Morehouse School of Medicine pediatric residency program, and other residency training programs within the Atlanta metropolitan area.
For more information on Children’s please visit www.choa.org.
Procedure for Candidacy
Qualified candidates should complete the online application and upload a CV. Inquiries should be sent to Megan Smith, Department of Pediatrics, at Megan.Smith2@emory.edu.
Additional Information
The Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute is an affiliation between Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta that is improving the lives of children in Georgia and beyond. The Pediatric Institute combines the unique strengths and resources of each institution in support of our three-part academic missions of providing outstanding clinical care, conducting innovative basic science discovery and clinical research, and coordinating exceptional education of the future healthcare workforce. Our physicians, researchers, and educators have created a model where leadership, commitment and quality are fundamental components of success. Together, we are transforming pediatrics by achieving new levels of clinical excellence—driven by research, teaching and wellness. We look forward to our future together.
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