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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati Children's) seeks a Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine. Cincinnati Children's is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the country and is consistently ranked among the top three nationally. Critical Care Medicine provides a foundational inpatient resource across the entire enterprise, while simultaneously supporting robust research and educational programs. While a national ranking system does not exist for this specialty, the Division of Critical Care Medicine at CCHMC is recognized as one of the top academic pediatric critical care programs in the world.
The Director of Critical Care Medicine will build on the existing program and drive innovations that accelerate excellence in patient care, research, and education. They will set an innovative course for the long-term growth and fiscal vitality of the Division of Critical Care Medicine – striving for continuous improvement in quality of care, leading and enabling transformational research programs, recruiting, and retaining exceptional and diverse faculty, identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise, and enabling world-class educational programming.
The successful candidate will be an established or clearly emerging leader in the field, who is committed to children's health and advancing the field through research, education, and mentorship. More importantly, they must demonstrate a personal style that facilitates communication, collaboration, trust, credibility, and confidence among divisional faculty and across Cincinnati Children's.
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Cincinnati Children's is a nonprofit academic medical center that stands as one of the oldest and most distinguished pediatric hospitals in the United States. Established in 1883, Cincinnati Children's has two full-service hospitals (Burnet and Liberty campuses) as well as outpatient clinics, services, and therapies at many locations throughout the tristate area. Through an academic affiliation dating to 1926, Cincinnati Children's comprises the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Since then, the relationship has resulted in numerous joint endeavors, including the performance of basic and clinical research, collaboration in the care of patients, cooperation in education, and training of medical students, doctoral students, residents, and fellows, and arrangements for the joint use of facilities and equipment. The main Burnet campus is adjacent to the campus of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, the country's first teaching hospital. (Please see the appendix for additional information about the institution).
DIVISION OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
VISIONWe will be the preeminent academic Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in the world by setting the standards of excellence in the field for patient care, education, and research.
Clinical Mission: To provide state-of-the-art and compassionate care for all critically ill children in the Tri-State area and provide the necessary expertise and infrastructure to allow for the highly specialized treatment of children beyond our geographic boundaries.
Clinical services are provided in a 35 bed PICU located on the 5th floor of Building B, with capability to expand beyond 35 beds as needed. Over 2,500 patients are admitted to the PICU annually and it is staffed 24 hours per day by pediatric critical care medicine fellows, pediatric residents, and pediatric critical care advanced practice providers. Twenty-four-hour, in-house attending supervision is provided exclusively by Critical Care Medicine faculty. The PICU is a combined medical and surgical unit with a very broad range of patients: solid organ and bone marrow transplant patients, airway surgery, neurosurgery, trauma, etc. All advanced support modalities are available within the PICU: ECMO, CRRT, MARS, therapeutic apheresis, HFOV, iNO, etc. The Division employs a family centered, multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Families are routinely invited to participate in morning rounds and rounding jointly with other subspecialties is the norm. In November 2021, clinical services will move to a new critical care tower, which will expand bed capacity to 60.
Research Mission: To conduct mechanistic basic, clinical, and translational research that will enable a more comprehensive understanding of critical illness, provide the foundation for novel therapies, diagnostics, and innovation, and ensure the best outcomes for patients.
The research effort is based at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, adjacent to CCHMC, in a fully equipped, 6,000 square feet cellular, molecular, and animal research laboratory. The Division currently holds several R and K level awards from the National Institutes of Health and has held continuous NIH-level funding since 1997.
Basic Research ThemesSepsis; Inflammation; Lung Development and Regeneration; Signal Transduction Mechanisms; Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury; Hemorrhagic Shock
Clinical/Translational Research ThemesSepsis; Genomics of Sepsis; Acute Kidney Injury; Traumatic Brain Injury; Biomarker Discovery and Development; Bioinformatics and Clinical Decision Support; Graduate Medical Education; Critical Illness Following Stem Cell Transplantation; Thrombosis; Social Determinants of Health.
Educational Mission: To train the future clinician-investigators and academic leaders of pediatric critical care medicine.
An ACGME-accredited training program provides for a 3 to 4 year fellowship, which prepares pediatricians for sub-specialization in the clinical practice of pediatric critical care and in research. The program currently accommodates 4 fellows per year and is structured to provide a 4th year of research training via a National Institutes of Health training grant (T32). In addition, graduate medical education within the Division provides resident-level trainees with a basic knowledge of the presentation and management of critical illness.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE
The Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Cincinnati Children's is a central leadership position at one of the leading pediatric healthcare institutions in the world. The Director must be an academic leader in the field of Critical Care Medicine. Additionally, the Director should have experience with clinical and research functions, strong leadership, administrative, and management abilities, and uncompromising integrity and ethics. A candidate will either be an MD or MD/PhD with subspecialty board certification in pediatric critical care medicine, or equivalent credentials. At a minimum, the candidate must meet requirements for appointment as an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati.
The successful candidate will bring the following personal qualities and professional q
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