Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Employer
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
- Location
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157
- Posted Date
- Nov 18, 2015
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- Specialty
- Emergency Medicine
- Position Type
- Permanent
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (WFBMC) is seeking applications and nominations for an outstanding academic leader to serve as the next Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine.
WFBMC is one of the nation's preeminent integrated academic health care systems. Employing over 13,000 people it is the largest employer in Forsyth County (Winston Salem), North Carolina; it operates more than 1,000 acute care beds as well as outpatient services, community health, and information centers.
The Department of Emergency Medicine at WFBMC has a rich history as a clinical training program and a critical resource to a rapidly expanding health system and the University's research enterprise. The Department has 39 faculty, 45 residents, and nine subspecialty fellows, with a volume of more than 108,000 visits from July 2014 to June 2015 in Winston Salem, NC. The Department also manages affiliate Emergency Medicine sites in Alamance, Catawba, Davie, Davidson, Guilford, and Wilkes counties, with a combined total of 109 Physicians throughout the affiliate sites.
The Chair will have primary responsibility and accountability in the overall direction, operation, and management of the Department and emergency medical services throughout the health system. He/she will be a senior leader within the Wake Forest Baptist Health leadership and will ensure that the Department is critically involved with the system's strategic initiatives. He/she will also be expected to expand research activities within the Department and to identify and implement collaborative research opportunities with other programs and investigators at Wake Forest.
Job Requirements
Candidates will have an MD, or MD/PhD with a track record of funded research or clinical innovation and have national, preferably international, recognition in the field of Emergency Medicine as evidenced by involvement in academic societies at a national level.
Contact Us: camos@wakehealth.edu
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