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UCSF School of Medicine and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals
Department of Pediatrics
HS Clinical Faculty

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals (BCH) are recruiting for the next Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety (EMD for Q&S). The successful candidate will be appointed at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank in the Health Sciences (HS) Clinical faculty series, commensurate with experience.

The selected candidate will serve as the Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, the senior clinical executive responsible for designing and advancing a unified, high-reliability pediatric quality and safety strategy across BCH. The EMD for Q&S will integrate deep pediatric clinical expertise with strategic, system-level leadership to advance equitable, high-value care, reduce preventable harm, and strengthen a culture of safety and continuous improvement across all BCH sites.

The EMD for Q&S will partner closely with BCH executive leadership and leaders across UCSF Health and the UCSF School of Medicine to translate institutional priorities into measurable outcomes and ensure the consistent delivery of excellent, patient-centered, and equitable care across the pediatric enterprise.

The selected candidate will join a major academic medical center and established training program and will actively contribute to the Department of Pediatrics’ mission of excellence in research, education, and patient care. The position may include clinical responsibilities at both the San Francisco and Oakland campuses.

Strategic Leadership & Impact
The EMD provides enterprise‑level vision and direction for BCH’s quality and safety agenda, ensuring alignment with UCSF Health’s strategic goals and national pediatric standards. The role reports to the BCH Chief Medical Officer and, in dyad partnership with the BCH Executive Director of Quality & Safety:

• Serves as the architect of BCH’s high‑reliability journey, embedding safety culture, reliability behaviors, principles of human factors, and learning systems across all pediatric care settings.
• Leads the systemwide strategy for harm reduction, clinical effectiveness, care‑variation reduction, and value optimization, ensuring BCH delivers consistently excellent, evidence‑based, and equitable care.
• Drives cross‑bay alignment of structures, processes, and best practices, establishing unified standards that support reliable, high‑quality care across all BCH locations.
• Champions equity as a core quality aim, embedding inclusive access measurements, and transparent reporting into all QI and safety initiatives.
• Strengthens organizational capability by coaching leaders, clinicians, and interprofessional teams in improvement science, human factors, and data‑driven decision‑making, building a workforce skilled in high‑reliability behaviors.
• Represents BCH as a national leader in pediatric quality and safety, actively participating in SPS, CHA collaboratives, and other national forums to advance pediatric safety science and elevate BCH’s visibility and influence.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Quality & Safety Strategy

• Co-lead BCH’s integrated Quality & Safety function with the Executive Director of Q&S, CMOs, and CNOs, setting systemwide priorities and ensuring operational execution.
• Oversee essential domains including clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, patient safety event review, and harm reduction.
• Direct the annual BCH Q&S strategic goalsetting process, including True North Scorecard deployment and SPS-aligned harm-reduction initiatives.
• Establish systemwide expectations for standardization of clinical pathways, prevention bundles, and evidence-based practices.

Governance & Committee Leadership

• Chair the BCH Quality Improvement Committee, ensuring mission clarity, accountability, and alignment with institutional priorities.
• Cochair the BCH Patient Safety Committee, shaping agendas, priorities, and oversight of harm-reduction work.
• Provide executive oversight for quality and safety committees at both SF and Oakland campuses.
• Represent BCH at major UCSF Health forums including EMB, MEC Oakland, QIEC, Chairs & Chiefs, Pediatrics Executive Leaders, and the Quality & Safety Committee of the Board.

Operational Excellence & Clinical Effectiveness

• Lead the development and maturation of BCH’s clinical effectiveness strategy in partnership with analytics, informatics, and physician leaders.
• Partner with perioperative quality and safety leadership to advance systemwide alignment and targeted improvement efforts.
• Drive digital quality modernization, including real time dashboards, predictive analytics, and Epic optimization to support proactive safety surveillance and clinical effectiveness.

Culture, Capability Building & Workforce Development

• Mentor and develop emerging leaders and champions across BCH to strengthen improvement capability and embed high-reliability behaviors.
• Lead systemwide education in improvement science, human factors, and safety culture for leaders and frontline teams.
• Partner with BCH leadership to ensure improvement inclusive access to care outcomes.
• Support psychological safety, leader rounding, and safety coaching programs to reinforce a culture of learning and transparency.

Data, Analytics & Regulatory Stewardship

• Leverage advanced analytical acumen to identify opportunities, mobilize insights, and drive clinical and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure BCH meets or exceeds expectations from regulatory and measurement bodies including The Joint Commission, CMS, SPS, and CHA.
• Oversee accurate, timely reporting of organizational quality and safety metrics to QSEC, the BCH and UCSF Boards, EMB, and other governance bodies.
• Partner with analytics and informatics teams to strengthen BCH’s digital quality infrastructure and real-time performance visibility.

Systemwide Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with BCH administrative and clinical leadership, departmental chairs, service line leaders, and operational executives to accelerate improvement, reduce harm, and optimize value.
• Support divisions and service lines in achieving quality and safety goals through data-driven improvement, evidence-based practice adoption, and real-time visualization of performance.
• Serve as a trusted spokesperson for BCH on quality and safety issues, representing the organization with professionalism and clarity.
• Represent BCH in national collaboratives, contributing to pediatric quality and safety scholarship and thought leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES
Required Qualifications:

• Medical degree (MD, DO, or equivalent) and eligibility for medical licensure in California.
• Board certification or eligibility in a clinical specialty or subspecialty relevant to the care of pediatric patients.
• Formal clinical training and demonstrated expertise in the care of pediatric patients.
• Successful candidates will show interest in a career in academic pediatrics.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience guiding interdisciplinary teams in complex healthcare environments and academic teaching institutions.
• Proven track record in quality improvement, patient safety, harm‑reduction initiatives, and high‑reliability transformation.
• Expertise in safety event review, categorization, and improvement implementation.
• Training in improvement/implementation science (Lean, Six Sigma, IHI Model for Improvement).
• Strong understanding of hospital efficiency, operations, EHR analytics, finance, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with clinical effectiveness, utilization management, and value‑based care.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in participating in or leading national collaboratives (e.g., SPS, CHA).

The total compensation for this position ranges from $244,600-$470,500.

Total compensation at the University of California, San Francisco includes your base salary, which is determined by your rank and step at appointment, and negotiated pay for Health Sciences Compensation Plan members. Faculty who are members of the Health Sciences Compensation Plan may also be eligible for additional incentive pay.

Please click here to apply with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for 3 references. Applicant materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission. The selected candidate must meet all of the qualifications at the time of appointment.

For more information contact:
Peter Oishi, MD
Associate Chief Medical Officer, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Peter.Oishi@ucsf.edu

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research institutions. In 2025, UCSF was the largest public recipient and second-largest overall recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, reflecting a long-standing commitment to advancing scientific discovery and improving health.

The Department’s clinical enterprise spans UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Mount Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General, and multiple outreach clinics throughout Northern California, providing unparalleled opportunities to serve infants, children, and young adults across the Bay Area.

For 2026–2027, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals achieved their strongest showing to date in the U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. The hospitals were nationally ranked in all 11 pediatric specialties evaluated for the ninth consecutive year and tied for the best children’s hospital in Northern California. Four specialties ranked among the nation’s top 10. Located in a region renowned for innovation, UCSF and the Department of Pediatrics bridge research and industry to drive the future of medicine.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

UCSF is committed to welcoming and serving all people, honoring the dignity of every individual without preference or prejudice, in support of its public mission and in alignment with our PRIDE values and Principles of Community.

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