Physician - Hematology/Oncology

The Women & Children's Institute (WCI) at Cleveland Clinic is seeking an accomplished physician leader to serve as Quality Officer for the Pediatric Hematology Oncology & BMT Division. This is an impactful leadership opportunity for a physician with a passion for advancing high-quality, safe, family-centered care for children and adolescents with hematologic and oncologic conditions. Pediatric hematology-oncology & BMT division include full Hematology/Oncology services along with FACT accredited Blood and Marrow Transplantation. The program is part of many collaborative groups including but not limited to COG, NEXT consortium, NAPAAC, NICER consortium, Sunrise consortium, Beat Childhood Cancer consortium and Sickle Cell Disease Alliance.

The PHO Quality Officer will partner closely with physician leaders, advanced practice providers, nursing, operations, and enterprise stakeholders to drive excellence in quality, safety, and patient outcomes across the division. This critical leadership role aligns clinical excellence with enterprise quality priorities while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, safety, and high reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide physician leadership for all Pediatric Hematology Oncology quality initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise quality, safety, and regulatory goals.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts across key clinical, patient safety and experience.
• Partner with Nursing, Operations, Infection Prevention, Regulatory Affairs, Quality and Patient Safety, and Continuous Improvement teams to ensure coordinated goal setting, measurement, and execution.
• Promote the use of data analytics, quality dashboards, benchmarking, and evidence-based practices to drive measurable and sustainable improvement.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a champion for patient- and family-centered care throughout the PHO Division.

Qualifications

Required

• MD or DO, board certified in Pediatric Hematology Oncology
• Minimum of 3 years of post-fellowship clinical practice experience, with demonstrated excellence in patient care.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams and driving quality improvement initiatives.
• Experience designing, implementing, and sustaining quality, safety, or performance improvement programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of high reliability principles, patient safety science, quality improvement methodologies, and regulatory standards.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and change management skills.

The candidate should be at the Assistant, Associate or equivalent level with strong clinical and clinical research interests in pediatric oncology, with an interest in sarcomas and other solid tumors. The candidate must be board-certified in pediatric hematology/oncology. A faculty appointment at a rank commensurate with academic accomplishments is expected at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Generous research opportunities are available within the Lerner Research Institute. Quality and Continuous Improvement efforts are also supported by Cleveland Clinic Childrens dedicated experts. Cleveland Clinic physicians enjoy a collegial work environment within the framework of a large group practice, with a competitive salary enhanced by a very attractive benefits package.

Cleveland Clinic Childrens is consistently ranked as one of the best childrens hospitals in the nation and is currently ranked in 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. Cleveland Clinic Childrens is a tertiary and quaternary referral hospital on the Cleveland Clinic main campus with more than 360 physicians in 55 pediatric medical and surgical specialties providing over 1.1 million outpatient visits, 15,500+ in-patient admissions, 13,000+ surgeries, and accepting 840 transports per year from around the nation and globe. Cleveland Clinic Childrens has 389 in-patient beds in its network including its quaternary Childrens Hospital on the main campus, our free-standing Childrens Hospital for Rehabilitation, and 2 other satellite hospitals across Northeast Ohio.

Interested Candidates should submit their Curriculum Vitae to: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/physicianrecruitment

If you have any question about this position, please free to contact Dr. Rabi Hanna, Department Chair, Pediatric Hematology Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation at [email protected] or Jennifer Friedler, Physician Recruiter at [email protected]