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Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director, Data Science, Genomics.

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is the region’s pediatric medical center serving San Diego, Imperial and southern Riverside counties, treating children from birth to 18 years old as well as a small number of adults with certain conditions that are served by Rady’s specialized services.

In addition, Rady Children’s Hospital is:

The largest children’s hospital in California (based on admissions)
The only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare
The region’s only designated pediatric trauma center
Provider of care to 91 percent of the region’s children

Rady Children’s, in partnership with UC San Diego School of Medicine, is also the region’s teaching hospital for the next generation of pediatric physicians. Each year, Rady trains more than 550 residents, 240 medical students and 150 fellows.

Rady Children’s is a major pediatric clinical research center, with more than 770 active research studies underway, including more than 170 active clinical trials.

Rady collaborates with world-class institutions, including:

UC San Diego
The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
The Scripps Research Institute
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine is a non-profit research organization embedded within Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. The Institute assembles a team of world-class scientists, researchers and clinicians who focus their talents on preventing, diagnosing, treating and curing childhood disease through genomics and systems medicine research.

Senior Director, Data Science, Genomics Position Overview

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine is seeking a Senior Director, Data Science, Genomics to serve as head of data science for the organization.

This is a new position reporting to the VP of Research and Clinical Management of the Genomics Institute.

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced leader to implement state of the art approaches to analyze next generation genomic sequencing and other “omics”.

The Senior Director will have the opportunity to build a team of data scientists.

The Senior Director will also:

Execute data analyses for multiple research studies across a broad range of pediatric health conditions
Provide expertise on study design
Lead analysis and interpretation of next generation genomic sequencing data to advance precision medicine
Lead the development of products and data models to support the strategic growth of a state of the art rapid genome laboratory

There is a lot of tenure within the organization, and for an individual committed to making a difference, this is a great position.

Qualifications

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine seeks candidates with strong training in the analysis and interpretation of next generation genomic sequencing data to advance precision medicine.

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate their ability to build and sustain a stellar team of data scientists, contribute and participate in internal and external presentations, peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference proceedings, and applications for extramural funding.

Minimum Qualifications:

PhD required in an area of study in a field related to the position
10+ years of related experience
5+ years of experience providing data science leadership in the field of Genomic Medicine
3+ years of leadership experience
Expert level familiarity with data science and statistical modeling (e.g. Python, R, Stark, SAS and equivalent)
Familiarity with the data science challenges facing the modern genomics laboratory and healthcare settings including common workflow models; capable of planning for future growth and change
The ability to use machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods

Preferred Qualifications:

PMI Certification
Research Administration Certification
Clinical Research Coordination Certification
Membership in regional or national research administration professional organization

For more information about the organization, the Senior Director, Data Science, Genomics position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett .

Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Genomics Research & Projects.

In addition, Rady Children’s Hospital is:

The largest children’s hospital in California (based on admissions)
The only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare
The region’s only designated pediatric trauma center
Provider of care to 91 percent of the region’s children

Rady Children’s is a major pediatric clinical research center, with more than 770 active research studies underway, including more than 170 active clinical trials.

Rady collaborates with world-class institutions, including:

UC San Diego
The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
The Scripps Research Institute
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Director, Genomics Research and Projects Position Overview

Reporting to the VP of Genomics Research and Clinical Management, the Director Genomics, Research & Projects functions as both a collaborative and independent administrator, strategic planner, and project manager.

The Director will design, implement, maintain, and monitor institute-wide research and project priorities, initiatives, activities and policies and procedures that optimize day-to-day operations, promotes research, and builds a positive culture to support research across the institute.

Responsibilities include seeking new extramural funding sources and communicating with external funding agencies.

Additionally, this person oversees the regulatory aspects of research and ensures with ongoing compliance. As a skilled technical writer, the director facilitates and mentors team members developing scientific presentations and articles.

Additionally, the Director:

Assists with harmonizing data sets
Engages in decision making which has a positive impact on people, cost, risk and quality of services
Develops and fosters optimal communication and collaboration between leadership, staff, faculty and collaborators

Culturally, Rady Children’s is a mission-driven organization and progressive children’s hospital. They seek out employees who “care about their career as much as they care about kids” and they’ve built an exceptional employee culture of strong performers. There is a lot of tenure within the organization, and for an individual committed to making a difference, this is a great position.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree
7+ years of related experience
5+ years of project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

PhD, in an area of study in a field related to the position
PMI Certification
Research Administration Certification
Clinical Research Coordination Certification
Membership in regional or national research administration professional organization

For more information about the organization, the Director, Genomics Research and Projects position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director of Bioinformatics.

In addition, Rady Children’s Hospital is:

The largest children’s hospital in California (based on admissions)
The only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare
The region’s only designated pediatric trauma center
Provider of care to 91 percent of the region’s children

Rady Children’s is a major pediatric clinical research center, with more than 770 active research studies underway, including more than 170 active clinical trials.

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine is a non-profit research organization embedded within Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. The Institute assembles a team of world-class scientists, researchers, and clinicians who focus their talents on preventing, diagnosing, treating, and curing childhood disease through genomics and systems medicine research.

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine is accelerating the pace of discovery and building the evidence base to advance delivery of Rapid Precision Medicine™ as the standard-of-care for children with genetic diseases.

They are best known for their ability to perform rapid whole genome sequencing among critically ill patients who have underlying rare genetic disorders. In 5 years they have grown from implementing rapid whole genome sequence for critically ill infants and children in one hospital (RCHSD) to 70 hospitals throughout the US and Canada.

Senior Director of Bioinformatics Job Overview

Rady Children’s Hospital leads the field of pediatric genomics, one of the most innovative forces in healthcare today. The Senior Director of Bioinformatics will play a key leadership role as Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) embarks on their vision for the next 5-10 years sequencing genomes of rare diseases.

During the next five years, the Bioinformatics division plans to increase the number of whole gene sequencing from 2,800 to over 10,000.

They also plan to move from diagnostic to therapeutic work while partnering with the pharmaceutical industry to identify new therapeutic agents.

In addition, they plan to disseminate the vast knowledge accumulated through sequencing to benefit the 70 children’s hospitals that use their services.

The Senior Director of Bioinformatics will provide the leadership for the department that includes four service lines:

Genome informatics
Applications and systems engineering
Technical and software development
Data services

The position reports to the VP of Research and Clinical Management and leads a team of four managers and approximately 15 individuals.

The Senior Director will not only grow their team but also grow RCIGM’s premier status in the hottest area of genomics.

Qualifications

Education:

Master’s degree required
Doctorate degree preferred

Experience:

5+ years of experience providing BI leadership in the field of genomic medicine
3+ years of leadership experience
Knowledgeable about BI challenges facing modern genomics laboratory and healthcare settings, including common workflow models, and the capability to lead future growth
Knowledgeable about regulatory, legal, and accreditation standards
Able to work with budgets and planning models
Comfortable operating with tight timelines
Demonstrated experience developing, leading, and mentoring a team
Experience leading the development of products and software to support strategic growth of a state-of-the-art rapid genome laboratory
Experience with agile methodologies

For more information about the organization, the Senior Director of Bioinformatics position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Sharp HealthCare has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for CIO job candidates.

Sharp HealthCare is a nationally-recognized integrated healthcare delivery system with four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, and three affiliated medical groups. Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit healthcare system serving 3.2 million residents of San Diego County.

Sharp is consistently recognized for outstanding achievement and aspires to top decile performance in each of its seven pillars of excellence (Quality, Safety, Service, People, Finance, Growth, and Community). Sharp was recognized with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the Nation’s highest honor for quality excellence in 2007, one of the first health systems in the country to have received this honor.

SVP/Chief Information Job Overview:

The Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (SVP/CIO) at Sharp Healthcare is an incredible opportunity for an experienced healthcare IT leader seeking a high-profile, strategic position with a highly respected health system in a beautiful location.

The SVP/CIO will oversee infrastructure, applications, risk and information security, analytics, informatics, contracting and vendor management, and special projects. Clinical engineering and bio-medical devices support is outsourced to GE. The technology team is approximately 600 people.

Qualifications:

Ten or more years of experience in a leadership role in a complex information systems environment
Healthcare industry experience is strongly preferred
Experience working closely with physicians and other healthcare providers on strategic IT initiatives
Previous experience with Cerner and Allscripts clinical applications is a strong plus
Visionary leadership and strong tactical and strategic expertise, negotiation and facilitation skills, along with the ability to motivate, persuade and build consensus
Demonstrated value-based leadership skills that emphasize creation of strategic vision, innovation, communication, finance, project management, human resource management and development and ability to be a team player
Experience implementing LEAN management methods aimed at simplifying processes and reducing costs

For more information about the organization, the SVP/Chief Information Officer job, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar) or click here.

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their Senior Director, Chief Technology Officer position.

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD) is the region’s pediatric medical center serving San Diego, Imperial and southern Riverside counties. It is a nonprofit, 524-bed pediatric- care facility dedicated to excellence in care, research and teaching.

RCHSD is the only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and the region’s only designated pediatric trauma center.

Senior Director, Chief Technology Officer Position Overview:

Rady Children’s current CTO is retiring, creating a vacancy in this key leadership role. The new CTO will continue partnering with executive leadership, physician leaders, and clinicians throughout the organization who are striving to provide the best possible care for their patients.

The current CTO says it is a “green field” of opportunity, with many projects, such as deploying VNA and HCI, as well as continuing with HPC for a leader to make a difference in the organization.

Culturally, Rady Children’s is a mission- driven organization and progressive children’s hospital. For an individual strongly committed to making a difference, this is a great position.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in field related to the position
10+ years of IT leadership experience
Experience managing teams of 40+ people
Experience leading a complex, 24×7, mission critical IT
operation
Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets
Evidence negotiating, developing and sustaining collaborative
internal and external partner relationships

Preferred Qualifications:

Graduate degree
Healthcare background
Epic experience
Genomics experience
Clinical/biomedical experience

For more information about the organization, position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar) or click here.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett.

Tower Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their SVP/CIO position.

Leading a team of over 200 professionals, the SVP/CIO will collaborate with Tower Health Executives and Vice Presidents of business lines throughout the enterprise network. This will include senior leadership, physicians, and Department Chairs at each of the facilities. The SVP/CIO will also work with Tower Health Medical Group and Tower Health Partners to advance their initiatives for a Clinically Integrated Network organization.

Organization Overview:

Tower Health is a six hospital, regional, integrated healthcare provider/payer system that offers leading-edge, compassionate healthcare and wellness services to 2.5 million people in Pennsylvania. The newly-formed system has 11,000 employees and includes:

Reading Hospital – West Reading
Brandywine Hospital – Coatesville
Chestnut Hill Hospital – Philadelphia
Jennersville Hospital – West Grove
Phoenixville Hospital – Phoenixville
Pottstown Hospital – Pottstown

Tower Health hospitals have received national recognition for advanced care in areas such as neurosurgery and stroke, cardiac and vascular surgery, trauma, hematology and oncology. Reading HealthPlex, which opened at Reading Hospital in October 2016, combines state-of-the-art technology and world-class design to make the HealthPlex one of the most sophisticated surgical centers and inpatient facilities in the region.

This position is based in Reading, Pennsylvania (about an hour from Philadelphia). Reading, surrounded by the beauty of the Appalachian Mountain foothills and lush farmlands, offers a nice mix of urban and rural living in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Reading, PA

SVP/CIO Position Description:

Responsibilities:

Preside over Information Technology operations for the Tower Health network.
Create a vision for IT strategy for the system.
Assess the current infrastructure and determine what is needed to support the new system.
Identify ways to maximize information technology in the delivery of healthcare.
Report and share information with the Board to ensure they are kept fully informed on the condition of the information technology utilized within the organization and important factors influencing it.
Identify and lead procurement and implementation of new information technology devices, infrastructure, and systems to support the delivery of healthcare.
Ensure highly productive relationships and partnerships for the benefit of the organization.
Set goals, monitor work, and evaluate results for information technology initiatives to ensure that departmental and organizational objectives and operating requirements are met and are in line with the needs and mission of the organization.
Work alongside senior staff/board members, executive directors, and community leaders. Participate in and nurture broad networks of alliances with others to exchange knowledge and information about learning and change in support of change initiatives.
Ensure company policies and procedures are followed by each department.
Attract, retain, and motivate staff.

SVP/CIO Position Qualifications:

Competencies:

Expert knowledge of improvement methods within a healthcare setting.
Experienced and skilled at managing complex technology projects that span across multiple departments, as well as geographic settings.
Excellent writing skills as well as superb interpersonal and verbal communication skills; a master at presenting information, ideas, and results is critical.
Ability to work in a fast moving and, at times, intense environment.
Skilled at building and maintaining relationships at all levels within the organization as well as externally with allies, current partners, and potential partners.

Required:

7+ years experience in health care information technology management and operational experience with a focus on improving the quality and safety of healthcare.
5+ years health care information technology leadership experience at a Sr. Director or Vice President level.
Significant strategic experience within a multi-entity hospital setting or hospital IDN.
Bachelor’s degree

Desired:

Experience in complex multi-site healthcare systems preferred.
An MBA or other applicable graduate degree is strongly preferred.

For more information about the organization, SVP/CIO Position and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar) or click here.

Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer Position.

Organization Overview

Rady Children’s Hospital is a non-profit organization that serves as the largest children’s hospital in California and the only hospital in San Diego dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare. Their mission is to restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy, and they prove their dedication to this cause by providing care to 90 percent of the region’s children. The organization is the region’s exclusive pediatric trauma center and serves over 214,000 children per year. Equipped with 520 beds and a team that consists of nearly 900 physicians, over 5,000 employees, and 500 volunteers, Rady Children’s Hospital is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of the San Diego, Imperial, and southern Riverside counties. Rady Children’s hospital is dedicated to innovation and research, and is affiliated and collaborates with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The organization is a major pediatric clinical research center with over 500 ongoing clinical trials and research studies, and is also the region’s teaching hospital for the next generation of pediatric physicians.

Chief Information Security Officer Position Highlights

Reporting to the Chief Data Officer (CDO)/Sr. Director of Data Strategy, Security, Innovation and Business Technologies, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) provides leadership and oversight in the strategic planning, execution, and assessment of Rady Children’s Hospital information security strategies, policies, procedures and guiding practices to be implemented. With oversight from the CDO, the CISO is responsible for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive organization-wide information security program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected against current, future, internal and external threats. The CISO is responsible for developing, identifying, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements while enabling the organization to develop an anticipatory response to minimize information security risk and breach events. The CISO position acts as the key liaison and focal point in the organization for information security communications and projects, in

addition to operational oversight of application security for enterprise EMR and ERP applications. The CISO will manage a team of 5 information security engineers and analysts.

Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Director of IT, Research, Genomics & Systems Medicine Position.

Organization Overview

Director of IT, Research, Genomics & Systems Medicine Position Highlights

The primary responsibility of the Director of IT — Research, Genomics and Systems Medicine will be to lead the IT initiatives supporting the Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute and to facilitate and coordinate actions by all departments in Rady Children’s Information Management Division in support of Institute researchers and clinical translation programs. The position presents an opportunity for the right person to be one of the nation’s most highly visible and premier children’s hospital IT genomics research directors