[Hiring] Senior Manager, Quality and Safety — Cardiac PET/CT @Cardiovascular Associates of America

Role Description

CVAUSA is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality and Safety for Cardiac PET to lead the standardization and continuous improvement of cardiac PET/CT imaging across our network of community cardiology practices. This person will own the quality framework for one of the fastest-growing and most technically demanding imaging modalities in cardiovascular care — setting the standards, building the improvement programs, and working directly with practices to raise the floor and the ceiling on imaging quality, patient safety, and diagnostic accuracy. This is a hands-on role for someone who has spent years inside real-world cardiac PET programs, knows exactly where quality tends to break down in community practice, and is energized by the work of closing those gaps at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Program Development & Management:
  • Refine, implement, and iteratively improve upon CVAUSA’s initial quality and safety program for cardiac PET/CT across CVAUSA’s practice network.
  • Establish and maintain quality metrics, protocols, and standard operating procedures spanning acquisition, stress protocols, tracer handling, quantification (myocardial blood flow / flow reserve), and interpretation.
  • Build dashboards and reporting that make imaging quality and outcomes visible and actionable at both the network and individual-site level.
• Accreditation:
  • Serve as the network's subject-matter expert on PET/CT accreditation requirements (e.g., IAC, ACR) and ensure practices meet or exceed accreditation quality criteria.
  • Support practices as needed through initial accreditation and re-accreditation as needed, including documentation, QC records, and required competencies.
  • Partner with the Medical Director and Radiation Safety Officer, who retain final sign-off on all clinical protocol specifics (dosing, contraindications, supervision levels) driven through this role.
• Peer Review & Clinical Validation:
  • Establish and run routine peer review / over-read programs for interpreting physicians, with structured feedback and improvement pathways.
  • Design and operationalize systematic comparisons of PET/CT findings against invasive coronary angiography, using discordance analysis to identify interpretation, protocol, and quantification issues and drive corrective action.
  • Design analyses that leverage billing and electronic health record data to understand patterns of care quality and identify variations in utilization and clinical outcomes across practices and patient populations.
• Training & Competency:
  • Implement, refine, and iteratively improve upon existing quality-focused training and competency requirements for interpreting clinicians.
  • Develop training content to help standardize clinician continuing education for PET/CT.
• Site Assessment & Standardization:
  • Travel to affiliated practices to assess PET/CT programs end to end — equipment and QC, protocols, staff competency, workflow, and image quality.
  • Identify site-specific and network-wide sources of variation and poor-quality imaging (e.g., PET/CT misregistration and attenuation-correction artifacts, patient motion, stress protocol inconsistency, generator/tracer handling, calibration and QC gaps, reader variability) and lead remediation.
• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement:
  • Apply core quality-improvement methodology (e.g., PDSA cycles, root-cause analysis, statistical process control) to reduce variation and improve diagnostic accuracy and safety.
  • Set benchmarks, track performance over time, and partner with practice leadership to sustain gains.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years managing the quality of cardiac imaging services, including 5+ years specifically working with cardiac PET (or 5+ years in nuclear cardiology/SPECT quality leadership with demonstrated ability to ramp on PET-specific quality control).
• Deep, demonstrated understanding of PET/CT accreditation quality criteria and quality best practices (beyond required accreditation criteria) and how to operationalize them in practice.
• Proven experience developing and managing quality improvement programs for cardiac PET, including routine peer review and PET/CT-to-coronary-angiography correlation programs.
• Experience defining and administering quality training and competency requirements for clinicians.
• Strong, practical familiarity with what it takes to run a high-quality cardiac PET/CT program in a community practice setting, and a clear-eyed understanding of the common sources and drivers of care variation and poor-quality imaging.
• 2+ years driving quality improvement across imaging service lines (including cardiac PET), with working fluency in core QI principles and a genuine passion for the work.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Based in the Southeast US or Florida.
• Prior experience standardizing quality across a multi-site network or MSO environment.

Benefits

• At CVAUSA, you’ll help improve and measure quality and advance scientific discovery at a national scale, and as part of the nation’s largest network of cardiovascular care professionals.
• You’ll have an opportunity to work closely with and learn from physician, quality, and imaging leaders.
• Your work will be foundational for our efforts to improve patient care and save lives.
• You’ll join a mission-focused organization dedicated to excellence in cardiovascular care and clinical research.

Location

Remote, with a strong preference for candidates based in the Southeast US or Florida (proximity to the majority of CVAUSA's affiliated practices).

Travel

Up to 50%, primarily to visit affiliated practices and evaluate PET/CT programs on site.