[Hiring] Vice President, Clinical Quality & Safety @DaVita Kidney Care

Role Description

DaVita is seeking an experienced nephrologist to serve as Vice President, Clinical Quality & Safety within the Office of the Chief Medical Officer. This national role provides physician leadership across three connected areas:

• Clinical quality, patient safety, and infection prevention
• Medication and clinical protocol development
• Clinical evaluation of new therapies, devices, and diagnostics

This is a role with unusual reach – you will lead DaVita’s approach to multiple critical clinical initiatives, improving outcomes for more than 200,000 patients.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Quality, Patient Safety, and Infection Prevention
  • Serve as the physician executive for DaVita's AHRQ-certified Patient Safety Organization.
  • Provide physician leadership to dialysis quality improvement.
  • Provide clinical direction to the national patient safety agenda.
  • Educate senior executives on key patient safety findings.
  • Serve as the clinical leader on infection prevention.
  • Provide clinical leadership and strategy for immunization initiatives.
• Medication and Clinical Protocol Strategy
  • Serve as the physician lead for medication management and clinical protocol development.
  • Serve as Co-Chair of the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Committee.
  • Provide clinical expertise on anemia therapies and bone mineral disease management.
  • Evaluate novel therapeutics in anemia and mineral bone disease.
  • Provide clinical guidance on additional pharmacotherapy topics.
  • Partner with research and development colleagues on protocol design.
• Clinical Evaluation of New Therapies, Devices, and Diagnostics
  • Serve as the clinical partner to DaVita's laboratory leadership.
  • Provide clinical leadership to the evaluation of new dialysis machines and devices.
  • Develop and steward DaVita's clinical relationships with academic medical centers.
• Broader Clinical Leadership
  • Represent DaVita as a clinical leader in national forums.
  • Contribute clinical expertise to related enterprise priorities.
  • Lead or support additional clinical initiatives at the direction of the Chief Medical Officer.
  • Identify emerging clinical risks and quality opportunities.

Qualifications

• M.D., D.O., or MBBS degree, with board certification in Nephrology.
• Active, unrestricted medical license.
• Minimum 10 years of post-training experience as a practicing nephrologist.
• Demonstrated leadership in patient safety and quality improvement.
• Working knowledge of anemia management and dialysis pharmacotherapy.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with non-physician leaders.
• Ability to interpret complex clinical data and translate findings into recommendations.
• Credible and confident communicator across various audiences.

Requirements

• Preferred: publication record in patient safety or dialysis outcomes.
• Experience evaluating devices or diagnostics.
• Experience partnering with academic medical centers.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off.
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace®, backup child and elder care.
• Professional development programs: Variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career.