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.

Interested candidates should submit an online application, and supporting materials should be sent to Chandler Clemens at [email protected].

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

833 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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