Section Chief - Hematology (Malignancies, Blood Disorders, & Clinical Research)
Section Chief - Hematology (Malignancies, Blood Disorders, & Clinical Research)
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Summary of Position
The Lewis Katz School of Medicine is seeking an accomplished and dynamic physician leader to serve as the Section Chief of Hematology within the Department of Medicine. This leadership role will involve fostering a collaborative innovative and academically rigorous environment with a strong emphasis on clinical excellence research and education. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with the Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Sol Sherry Research Center enhancing the integration of clinical care and cuttingedge research in hematology.
The individual in this position will lead a team of hematologists collaborate with other medical and administrative departments and ensure the highest standards of patient care education and scholarly work in the field of hematology. The Section Chief will provide clinical guidance mentorship to faculty fellows and residents and foster an environment of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role requires strong leadership expertise in hematology and the ability to engage with academic clinical and research communities effectively.
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To learn more about Temple Fox Chase Cancer Center Click HERE
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Represent the hematology section in departmental institutional and external meetings ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and initiatives and manage the sections budget and resources ensuring efficient allocation and compliance with institutional financial goals.
- Provide senior clinical leadership for the Hematology Section fostering a culture of academic excellence and clinical innovation.
- Develop and implement strategic goals aligned with LKSOM and the Departments mission and vision.
- Oversee recruitment mentoring and career development of faculty fellows and staff.
Clinical Care
- Maintain and enhance highquality patient care services (both inpatient and outpatient) in hematology with an emphasis on thrombosis and nonmalignant hematology.
- Collaborate with Fox Chase Cancer Center to integrate and expand hematologyoncology clinical services across the Health System.
- Monitor and evaluate clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction metrics to identify areas for improvement and along with the Departments Vice Chair of Quality Safety and Innovation oversee quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care safety and outcomes.
Research
The Section Chief and faculty are members of the Sol Sherry Research Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University Hospital. The Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center has a vibrant and interdisciplinary research program focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of thrombosis and hemostasis and developing new therapeutic strategies for blood diseases. As such the Section Chief will:
- Promote and support research activities including basic translational and clinical research within the section.
- Foster collaborative research efforts with the Sol Sherry Research Center and other affiliated institutions.
- Secure extramural funding and lead significant research initiatives.
Education
The Chief is tasked with driving the achievement of quality and educational objectives actively participating in faculty development and mentoring medical students and postgraduate trainees As such the Section Chief of Hematology will:
- Oversee and contribute to the educational programs including fellowship training and medical student/resident education.
- Mentor junior faculty fellows and residents in clinical and research activities.
Collaboration
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Sol Sherry Research Center.
- Participate in multidisciplinary initiatives to advance hematology care and research.
Specific Responsibilities
- Lead the Section of Hematology in the tripartite mission of cuttingedge clinical care education and research.
- Ensure a worldclass educational experience and mentorship to medical students residents and fellows in hematology.
- Promote a strong culture of institutional responsibility including a commitment to excellent efficient and effective business operations and the use of space.
- Encourage and support diversity among the Sections constituents creating an environment of professionalism respect tolerance and acceptance.
- Promote a culture of engagement mission lifelong learning and professional development among departmental staff.
- Work with the Department Vice Chair of Academic Affairs Department Chair and Senior Associate Dean Office of Faculty Affairs to define plans for the development of each faculty member and perform annual review meetings with each Hematology faculty member.
- Support the promotion of faculty during the promotion process through mentorship guidance and advocacy.
- Participate in departmental School of Medicine and hospital committees as assigned by the Department Chair and Dean of LKSOM
- Ensure patientfocused efficient effective and safe clinical care.
- Lead quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care safety and outcomes.
- Develop programs that reduce barriers to care amongst the patients served by Temple Health.
- Manage the resources of the Section to ensure sustainable and effective programs.
- Promote community outreach community feedback and collaboration with communitybased organizations.
- Ensure compliance with all clinical standards regulatory requirements and institutional policies.
- Stay up to date with advancements in hematology and integrate emerging practices into clinical care and departmental policies.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Possess leadership experience to develop teams drive vision and work collaboratively.
- Ability to effect change in a complex academic environment through consensus building collaboration organizational programming effective use of data delegation of responsibilities and missiondriven leadership.
- An ability to understand and respect and uphold the highest ethical standards while maintaining the organizations integrity.
- Display a style that fosters and supports change and innovation while maintaining overall control and aspiring to the highest standards.
- Demonstrate sensitivity tolerance and compassion for the culture needs and aspirations of the Temple community.
- Support and promulgate diversity among faculty staff students and patients.
- Proven ability to develop and execute short and longterm strategic initiatives.
- Skilled at recruiting and retention of staff and faculty and values the mentoring role to elevate and support others.
Reporting Structure/Key Relationships
The Section Chief of Hematology is accountable directly to the Chair Medicine LKSOM
Educational Requirements and Minimum Qualifications
This position requires an M.D. D.O. or foreign equivalent. Board certification or eligibility through the American Board of Internal Medicine is preferred. Successful completion of residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology from an ACGMEaccredited program is preferred. International postgraduate medical education may be considered in lieu of an ACGME accredited residency and fellowship.
Qualified candidates must possess credentials for an academic appointment at the rank of Associate Professor/Professor in the medical school and have an outstanding clinical care research scholarship and mentoring/education record. Candidates should be active participants in specialty organizations/committees at the regional and national levels and can obtain medical licensure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Faculty Appointment Benefits/Compensation
The annual compensation shall be determined based on the experience and qualifications of the individual selected for the position. In addition to a competitive salary there is a comprehensive suite of benefits including a generous 403b retirement match 457b health dental vision life malpractice tuition remission and CME among others.
The Organization
Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple University and Temple Health
The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University is dedicated to excellence in education research and patient care achieved by faculty staff and learners who represent and serve its diverse community.
In 2015 Temple University School of Medicine was renamed the Lewis Katz School of Medicine in honor of Temple alumnus former trustee and philanthropist Lewis Katz. The school enjoys a national reputation for training humanistic clinicians and biomedical scientists a school that values technical excellence and cultural competence.
Katz School of Medicine has 27 basic science and clinical departments full and with over 700 full and parttime faculty 800 volunteer faculty and more than 500 additional staff.
With more than 11000 alumni Katz has trained a significant proportion of the physician base in the PennsylvaniaNew JerseyDelaware region. Reflecting the excellent quality of a Temple medical education the MD graduates are highly regarded by competitive residency training programs. They have made significant career contributions to both medical practice and medical research. Many have become department chairpersons deans and vice presidents of major academic medical centers.
At Katz students learn the true art and science of doctoring. The schools worldclass faculty sets the pace in key areas of investigation pushing the boundaries of science to advance patient care.
The Katz School of Medicine home base is a modern 11story medical education and research building with stateoftheart facilities and technologies. The building opened in 2009 and boasts openair research labs smart classrooms and a stateoftheart anatomy lab. More than half of the space in the building is dedicated to research. With specialized research centers and strengths focused on population health neuroscience cancer metabolic disease lung disease and inflammation infectious diseases including HIV cardiovascular disease substance abuse and translational science Katz conducts investigations to break new ground and trains future generations of researchers to follow suit.
In addition to its Philadelphia campus Katz has a fouryear regional campus in Bethlehem PAthe St. Lukes University Health NetworkBethlehem.
The Katz School of Medicine also provides opportunities for international students through educational affiliation agreements with universities worldwide. Visiting medical students may take up to two rotations within the program and they must be fulltime students in their final year of medical school.
Katz has numerous research centers:
- Aging and Cardiovascular Disease Center
- Alzheimer Center at Temple
- Center for Asian Health
- Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology
- Center for Inflammation and Lung Research
- Center for Metabolic Disease Research
- Center for Microbiology and Immunology
- Center for Neurovirology and Gene Editing
- Center for Substance Abuse Research
- Center for Health Justice and Bioethics
- Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine
- The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs
- Lemole Center for Integrated Lymphatics Research
- Center for Neurodevelopment and Repair
- Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center
With its affiliates including Fox Chase Cancer Center Katz has been awarded over $135 million in research grants over the last year including more than $55 million in NIH funding for Katz. Philanthropic support of scholarships a top priority along with support for education patient care research and service to the community averages more than $30 million annually typically representing a quarter of Temple Universitys overall philanthropic revenue.
For more information on the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Click HERE
Temple University
To learn more about Temple University click HERE
Founded by Russell H. Conwell in 1884 Temples official motto Perseverantia Vincit or Perseverance Conquers reflects its students drive to succeed and ability to turn opportunities into accomplishments. Conwells purpose was to give education to those who were unable to get it through the usual channels. In Temples earliest incarnation workingclass citizens were taught late in the evening and referred to as night owls giving rise to the schools mascot and team name.
In 1965 the University became a member of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education one of three staterelated comprehensive research universities in Pennsylvania. In addition to its Main Campus in North Philadelphia Temple has three additional locations in Philadelphia: Temple University Center City the Health Sciences Center also in North Philadelphia and the School of Podiatric Medicine near Philadelphias historic district. Regional campuses are located in Ambler and Harrisburg Pennsylvania with international campuses in Japan and Rome.
Temples influence extends around the globe with longstanding campuses in Tokyo and Rome programs in London Beijing and other locations nearly 190 institutional collaborations in 43 countries and more than 350000 alumni worldwide. High graduation rates accomplished graduate degree programs new living and learning facilities and groundbreaking work in science education and research fuel Temples momentum. In the latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education Temple is in the highest research activity category or R1 placing it among the top four percent of all fouryear institutions in the nation.
Temple offers 630 academic degree and certificate programs including 2 associate degree programs 176 bachelors programs 182 masters programs 54 doctoral programs and 13 professional practice degree programs. Temple is also among the nations largest providers of professional education with approximately 3800 students enrolled in the schools of dentistry law medicine pharmacy and podiatric medicine.
About Temple Health
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Temple University Health System (Temple Health) is a $2.9 billion academic health system dedicated to providing access to quality patient care and supporting excellence in medical education and research. Temple Health includes Temple University Hospital (TUH)Main Campus; TUHEpiscopal Campus; TUHJeanes Campus; TUHNortheastern Campus; Temple University Hospital Fox Chase Cancer Center Outpatient Department; TUHNortheastern Endoscopy Center; The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center together with The Institute for Cancer Research an NCIdesignated comprehensive cancer center; Fox Chase Cancer Center Medical Group Inc. The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Centers physician practice plan; Temple Health Chestnut Hill Hospital; Temple Women & Families; Temple Transport Team a ground and airambulance company; Temple Physicians Inc. a network of communitybased specialty and primarycare physician practices; and Temple Faculty Practice Plan Inc. Temple Healths physician practice plan. Temple Health is affiliated with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Temple Health refers to the health education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple Health and by the Katz School of Medicine. Temple Health neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. All health care is provided by its member organizations or independent health care providers affiliated with Temple Health member organizations. Each Temple Health member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents.
TUHS is a progressive and innovative organization. Within the past year it has earned national and regional accolades for excellence in healthcare. Among these recognitions are the Philadelphia Employer of Choice (the only healthcare provider named) Forbes Best in State Employer Healthcare Equality Index Leader Nursing Magnet Leapfrog A Safety Grade (eight times since 2020) Healthgrades Americas Best Hospitals and Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award. These honors speak to the proud team culture of TUHS.
Notable statistics about Temple Health include:
- 990 licensed beds
- 37000 admissions
- 6 million patient visits
- 160000 emergency room and urgent care visits
- 23000 inpatient and outpatient surgeries
- 340 organ transplants
- 2000 births
- 1794 physicians
- 350 researchers
- 765 medical residents and fellows
- 48 accredited residency training programs
- 12000 faculty members and employees
Temple Faculty Physicians (TFP)
Temple Faculty Physicians is made up of more than 500 dually employed physicians who are the cornerstone of clinical care and teaching for Temples healthcare enterprise. These physicians practice in 20 academic departments encompassing every subspecialty in modern medicine.
While remaining committed to serving patients in the North Philadelphia community Temple Faculty Physicians has expanded its geographic reach beyond Temple University Hospitals Health Sciences campus in recent years. Today Temple physicians care for patients in several Templeaffiliated hospitals in satellite offices in Center City Philadelphia Fort Washington PA Oaks PA and various other outpatient settings. This expanded reach has brought Temple medical care closer to home for many patients.
A Board of Directors comprised of key physicians and executive leaders of the Temple University Health System and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine governs Temple Faculty Physicians.
Procedure for Candidacy
To be considered for this position you must complete an online application.
Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted all the required documents and information.
Application materials should include:a current curriculum vitae a comprehensive letter of interest summarizing all relevant experience qualifications clinical educational and research interests and a onepage summary of leadership accomplishments and philosophy. Candidates applying for this position must also provide a statement addressing how they would utilize their experience and knowledge to promote diversity and inclusion at the university and how that commitment would add value to the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Please address your application to: Daniel Edmundowicz Chair Department of Medicine and Search Committee Chairperson Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University C/O William Mawhinney Sr. Physician/Faculty Recruiter Physician/Faculty Recruitment & Retention Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University Email:
We are especially interested in qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups. For more information about diversity at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine please visit theOffice of Health Equity Diversity and Inclusion.
Temple University is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute through their research teaching and/or service to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from women minorities veterans and persons with disabilities.
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