Vice Chair of Quality and Safety - GI Oncology

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GI Oncologist

Job Description:

🩺 Vice Chair of Quality and Safety, GI Oncology

Beth Israel Lahey Health – Lahey Clinic

📍 Burlington & Peabody, MA

About the Opportunity

The Division of Hematology/Oncology at Lahey Clinic (LC), a member of Beth Israel Lahey Health, is seeking a full-time, Board-Certified or Board-Eligible Medical Oncologist specializing in Gastrointestinal Malignancies to serve as Vice Chair of Quality and Safety, Oncology.

This role offers a unique balance of executive clinical leadership and active patient care. The Vice Chair will advance a culture of high-quality, safe, equitable, and patient-centered oncology care across the Lahey Cancer Institute (LCI), with a primary clinical focus on GI malignancies.

The position will be based at Lahey Clinic in Burlington and Lahey Medical Center Peabody, with opportunities to collaborate across the broader BILH health system.

Key Leadership & Clinical Responsibilities

• Strategic Quality Leadership: Lead the development, implementation, and continuous evaluation of quality and safety initiatives within the Division of Hematology/Oncology.

• Metric Establishment & Monitoring: Define and track key performance indicators for clinical quality, safety, patient access, timeliness, health equity, and patient experience.

• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Partner closely with medical, surgical, and radiation oncology, pathology, radiology, pharmacy, nursing, APPs, genetics, palliative care, and supportive services.

• Process & Safety Improvement: Direct clinical improvement projects focusing on care coordination, treatment safety, symptom management, hospitalization prevention, care transitions, and clinical trial access.

• Informatics & EHR Integration: Collaborate with clinical operations and informatics teams to optimize documentation, clinical decision support, treatment planning, and EHR-driven quality measurement.

• Culture & Governance: Foster a "just culture" supporting event reporting, safety learning, and process improvement. Participate in institutional quality, safety, pharmacy, tumor board, and cancer committee activities.

• Mentorship & Scholarship: Mentor faculty, trainees, APPs, and staff in quality improvement methodology and oncology care delivery. Support scholarly dissemination through publications and national presentations.

• Clinical Practice: Maintain an active GI oncology practice, structured to fully support executive leadership responsibilities.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education & Boarding: MD or DO degree with Board Certification or Eligibility in Medical Oncology.

• Clinical Focus: Demonstrated clinical expertise in the multidisciplinary care of gastrointestinal malignancies.

• Licensure: Eligible for an unrestricted medical license in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• Experience: Experience in quality improvement, patient safety, clinical operations, care pathway development, or oncology program leadership.

• Preferred Background: Formal training or demonstrated experience in quality improvement, patient safety, health care administration, or clinical informatics.

• Academic Eligibility: Academic accomplishments appropriate for a faculty appointment through UMass Chan School of Medicine, commensurate with experience.

About Lahey Clinic & Lahey Cancer Institute

• World-Class Institution: Lahey Clinic is a 317-bed tertiary medical center, outpatient clinic, Level I trauma center, and physician-led group practice of over 600 physicians.

• Expansive Cancer Network: LCI encompasses programs across Burlington, Peabody, Beverly, Addison Gilbert, Winchester, and affiliated regional hospitals, diagnosing and treating over 5,000 new analytic cancer cases annually.

• State-of-the-Art Care: Sites offer advanced infusion services, radiation oncology, genetics, specialized outpatient surgery, and in-house next-generation sequencing. LCI active research includes membership in SWOG and NRG.

• Teaching & Training: Participate in training medical students from the UMass Chan-Lahey Regional Medical Campus and fellows in the LC Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program.

Location & Lifestyle Benefits

• Work-Life Balance: Generous compensation/benefits package with infrequent night and weekend call expectations.

• Prime New England Location: Located just north of Boston, Burlington and surrounding communities offer top-ranked public schools, vibrant cultural activities, and immediate access to New England’s beaches and mountains.

• Inclusive Culture: Beth Israel Lahey Health is committed to building an inclusive, equitable working and learning environment for all staff.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit a CV and cover letter to:

Janet Waters, Physician Recruiter, [email protected]

Pay Range:

$450,000.00 USD - $540,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.  In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses. 

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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