Physician - Emergency Medicine
Springfield, MA 01199
| Specialty | Emergency Medicine |
|---|---|
| Profession | Physician |
Baystate Health is seeking an accomplished physician executive to serve as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and lead emergency care across our integrated health system. The Chair will oversee Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center, our flagship academic medical center, and four community hospital emergency departments serving Western Massachusetts.
This highly visible role combines clinical leadership, academic advancement, operational excellence, financial stewardship, and workforce development. The successful candidate will bring strong clinical credibility, a record of academic achievement and leadership, business acumen, and the ability to lead effectively across both academic and community-based settings.
The Chair serves as the senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, academic, operational, financial, and strategic performance of Emergency Medicine across Baystate Health. As a member of the Physician Enterprise leadership team, the Chair will help shape broader health system strategy while ensuring high-quality, safe, accessible, efficient, and financially sustainable emergency care across all sites.
- Lead clinical operations across five emergency departments, with a focus on patient flow, throughput, capacity, access, quality, and patient experience.
- Maintain accountability for departmental financial performance, resource utilization, physician and APP productivity, and staffing effectiveness.
- Recruit, engage, develop, and retain outstanding physicians, APPs, faculty, trainees, and departmental leaders.
- Advance quality, safety, high reliability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the system.
- Collaborate with clinical, nursing, operational, and administrative leaders to advance enterprise priorities and measurable results.
Academic Leadership
Emergency Medicine is a major academic department within UMass Chan Medical School–Baystate, with a 48-resident residency program, multiple fellowship programs, including two ACGME-accredited fellowships, and nationally recognized faculty contributing to education, research, scholarship, and innovation.
The Chair will build on this foundation by supporting faculty development and scholarly achievement, strengthening graduate medical education, and advancing the department’s academic reputation and impact.
The Ideal Leader
The ideal candidate is a strategic, collaborative, and highly visible leader who combines academic credibility with the ability to execute. This leader will be comfortable in a complex, matrixed organization, able to build trust across disciplines, and skilled at translating vision into measurable clinical, operational, financial, and academic results.
