Professor and Chair - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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About the Department :

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine was chartered in September 2002 to meet the expanding needs of rehabilitation services in South Florida. In September 2013, the Faculty Senate unanimously voted to update the department’s name to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The department’s establishment has been and continues to be a collaboration between the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Public Health Trust. Since its inception, the Department of PM&R has been a leading catalyst in integrating rehabilitation care in acute care in the South Florida area by fortifying relationships with the departments of Orthopedics, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. The significant accomplishments attained since the opening of the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center (LRC) in March 2020, have cemented the department’s presence amongst the highest ranks of rehabilitation programs across the nation.
The PM&R department consists of nine divisions:

• Brain Injury Medicine

• Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine

• Interventional Spine Medicine

• Musculoskeletal Medicine

• Neuropsychology

• Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine

• Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine

• Post-Amputation Rehabilitation Medicine

• Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

About the Chair Role :

The Chair will provide strategic leadership and direction for all aspects of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is responsible for its personnel, administrative, clinical, educational, and research/scholarly operations. The Chair oversees the Department's clinical activities for UHealth and the Lynn Rehabilitation Center with responsibility for their success in the marketplace and for achieving the delivery of high-quality and cost-effective care. He/she will support the advancement of a culture of excellence in care across UHealth PM&R programs and services.

He/she will also oversee PM&R education and the residency training programs of the Department. The next leader for PM&R will establish and nurture curricular and training programs to innovatively meet the need for the education and training of current and future healthcare professionals and lead the Department to a position of academic and professional eminence while furthering the goals and missions of The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. This role is expected to promote teamwork both within the Department as well as with other School of Medicine departments in all aspects of academic and clinical functions. This includes fostering interprofessional teams, interdepartmental collaborations, and integration of basic, clinical, and translational research.

Serving as a leader for the Department, the Chair will represent the Department at various functions with UHealth, the School of Medicine, and the external community, and serve in a leadership role in UHealth committees and activities. He/she will work closely with the other Department chairs, the School of Medicine leadership team, and the faculty governance structure to provide an outstanding education to students and resident trainees. The individual in this position is expected to serve as a role model across all the missions for the faculty, in addition to his or her administrative responsibilities.

The following represent key opportunities and expectations for the new Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to address within the first 18-24 months of his/her tenure. They are not listed in any particular order of priority.

Clinical Services

• Assess current clinical operations and execute such plans as necessary to increase patient access and volume, throughput, and efficiencies, while at the same time maintaining or improving faculty and staff satisfaction.

• Develop care pathways from inpatient to outpatient to keep care within the network.

• Evaluate pediatric rehabilitation and implement a plan to meet the needs of patients in the inpatient setting, becoming a care destination.

• Bring an entrepreneurial approach to leading the clinical mission, encouraging the development of new services and new ways to deliver them.

• Contemporize care delivery processes to include the adoption of team-based care and population health principles.

• As UHealth continues to expand, lead a department that includes all members of the network and expands as the health system expands.

• Standardize protocols and ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality clinical services across all practice sites.

• Aggressively recruit highly qualified, diverse faculty and anticipate future recruiting needs as patient volume increases. Fill vacancies with highly qualified physiatrists (clinicians of all types as well as clinician-scientists).

• Model leading multidisciplinary care teams that deliver evidence-based rehabilitation care.

• Identify innovative ways to extend rehabilitation needs to underserved communities.

• Work with leadership at LRC and within the department to align goals and strategic initiatives as it relates to clinical operations.

• Collaborate with other departments on providing synergistic and aligned services, including Internal Medicine, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Orthopedics, and Pediatrics.

Education

• Support strong undergraduate and graduate medical education. This includes advocating for resources necessary to ensure the Department maintains strong fellowship programs, investigating additional strong educational opportunities and new expansion efforts, and mentoring fellows in research activities.

• Develop an experience that exceeds expectations for medical students in contemporary rehabilitation that integrates information services and decision support to care for populations and leverages physicians in team-based care.

• Consistent with the growth of the clinical system, extend PM&R residency training to multiple locations to supply needed providers to the service area.

• Establish the Department as the leading source of continuing education for practicing physiatrist.

• Scholarship and Research

• Lead significant expansion of the Department's scholarship and research productivity and increase the amount of externally-sponsored research, ideally NIH-funded research.

• Provide a supportive environment and infrastructure that fosters research activity, facilitates achieving sponsored research funding, and promotes new research programs. Develop a work structure that allows faculty time for research and academic activity while meeting clinical demands.

• Assist the faculty in identifying research opportunities, including opportunities for collaboration both with local and regional partners, as well as outside of the institution, and leveraging extramural and foundation funding sources.

• Aid researchers in providing necessary resources to support junior faculty in their research efforts and career trajectories.

• Community Engagement/Access for Underserved

• Establish close relationships with community partners and identify opportunities for community engagement.

• Explore opportunities to address the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations.

Engage and Lead a Distinguished Faculty

• Establish rapport with the faculty and build an esprit de corps amongst them, regardless of their location, or clinical and research interests. Align the faculty with the goals of the Department and School of Medicine.

• Lead effective recruitment and retention strategies to ensure ample high-quality, engaged faculty are present to meet the multiple missions of the department. Faculty recruitment and retention efforts must reflect a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• In conjunction with efforts across the School of Medicine, evaluate and address the compensation plan for faculty.

• Establish a culture that makes the Department a sought-after destination for trainees to begin their careers.

Candidate Qualifications :

Education/Certification

• Possess an M.D., M.D./Ph.D. or D.O.

• Certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

• Eligible for licensure in the state of Florida.

Experience & Qualifications

• A distinguished academic and research record which merits appointment to the rank of associate or full professor at the University.

• National/international reputation as a respected and accomplished clinician, researcher, and/or educator.

• Proven, substantial, and progressive leadership achievement in an academic medical center.

• Evidence of an astute understanding of academic clinical practice and a deep commitment to clinical excellence based on a patient-centered model of care.

• Record of accomplishment for developing research infrastructure and/or achieving extramural funding.

• Demonstrated understanding of finances in healthcare administration and academic medicine.

• Experience in the workings of a division or department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation related to clinical operations, key hospital interactions, research initiatives, faculty affairs, graduate and undergraduate education, and fundraising.

• Record of success in mentoring and developing faculty, clinicians, students, and trainees, and supporting them in their academic, teaching, and clinical endeavors.

• Record of accomplishment as a creative and strategic thinker who can envision and manage for the future.

• Evidence of success in leading and developing excellent graduate medical education programs.

• A demonstrated commitment to increasing the diversity of faculty and staff, the development of culturally competent faculty and staff, and the provision of culturally sensitive medical services.

• Experience in building community-outreach programs.

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams, and to develop strong ties and connections with internal and external constituencies and individuals.

Leadership Skills and Competencies
The successful candidate will be:

• A transformational, entrepreneurial, and strategic leader who can establish an inspiring vision for the Department's future and who is committed to growing and developing faculty, staff, and trainees, achieving prestige through the success of the Department and its members rather than through his or her own clinical and research work.

• An accomplished clinician who will command the clinical respect of their peers.

• An extramurally funded researcher with significant academic scholarship as evidenced by a history of impactful, peer-reviewed publications.

• A diplomat who demonstrates a collaborative approach in working closely with members of the Department of PM&R, other School of Medicine Departments, and outside organizations and individuals.

• An effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills who is an empathetic, respectful listener and who can create an atmosphere that allows individuals to be proactive within the context of a Departmental plan.

• A skilled negotiator who can work collaboratively yet decisively while focusing on what is optimal for the Department.

• A competent manager with business skills who knows how to achieve challenging performance goals in complex, evolving environments, including balancing his or her own strengths and weaknesses with complementary associates.

• A mentor with strong coaching skills to nurture the development of junior faculty into accomplished clinicians, researchers, and teachers, and of senior faculty into successful academic leaders.

• A teacher who enjoys interchange with students, residents, and faculty.

• An individual of the highest integrity with high levels of energy, maturity, and flexibility and a reputation for fairness and idealism.

• A builder of organizations and programs; a developer and promoter of the strengths of colleagues; and a fundraiser.

• An approachable and enthusiastic leader who is accessible and visible to faculty and staff and who can engage the community for philanthropic support for the Department.

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Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Faculty-UMMG