Professor- Division Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Description

Universityof Colorado – School of Medicine

Department of Psychiatry

Chief, of the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences located at Children’s Hospital Colorado

The University of ColoradoDenver l Anschutz Medical Campus seeks individuals with demonstrated commitmentto creating an inclusive learning and working environment. We value theability to engage effectively with students, faculty and staff of diversebackgrounds.

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, one of four campuses in the University of Colorado System, is the major academic medical center in the Rocky Mountain region. The Anschutz Medical Campus is home to the University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado and a new Veterans Affairs Hospital, making it one of the largest and most comprehensive biomedical research and clinical care centers in the western United States. With world-class health sciences research, educational and clinical facilities, the CU School of Medicine has established distinctive and highly productive programs, receiving research awards of more than $350 million per year, including more than $200 million from National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies. The School's total annual clinical and research revenue exceeds $1.2 billion per year. The University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry has recently welcomed Department Chair, C. Neill Epperson, MD. Since her arrival in 2018 the department has grown substantially with the addition of foci in women’s behavioral health, stress and trauma, workforce expansion, affective disorders, brain imaging and substance dependence research, and integrated care. Since 2018 the department has added 65 new faculty and increased the annual budget from $65M to $70M including increase in clinical and research funding.
The Department of Psychiatry seeks a Chief, of the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences located at Children’s Hospital Colorado. One of the largest divisions in the Department of Psychiatry with 128 faculty and a $15M budget, the Child and Adolescent Division has quadrupled in size over the past eight years. Children’s Hospital Colorado is extremely invested in the provision of behavioral health to children in the Denver Metro and surrounding areas and is committed to expanding the work of the Pediatric Mental Health Institute. The service includes a multitude of programs including inpatient, partial programs, ambulatory services, a 7 day psychiatric emergency service, a robust consultation liaison program, integrated services, and is very active in community services and education through the Partners for Children’s Mental Health and the pediatric primary care consultation program. In addition, the division has a robust and growing research focus including anxiety, developmental disabilities, integrated care, and brain imaging.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Oversight of the clinical and administrative activities of the department to optimize the provision of high quality, efficient, and effective care and child health advocacy.


• Integration of the division into the overall functions of the organization in matters affecting patient care including personnel, supplies, special regulations and facilities.


• Leadership in strategic planning regarding the provision of psychiatric and behavioral services at Children’s Hospital Colorado and throughout the State of Colorado, working collaboratively with hospital leadership. Serves as the head of Pediatric Mental Health Institute, works as a team member with faculty, nursing, and administrative leadership .


• Development and implementation of policies and procedures that guide and support the division and department.


• Enforcement of the Hospital bylaws, policies and procedures.


• Maintaining a sufficient number of qualified and competent staff to provide care.


• Transmitting the criteria developed for clinical privileges by the department to the Medical Board.


• Transmitting to the Medical Board through the Credentials Committee department recommendations concerning the staff classifications, the reappointment delineation of clinical privileges in the division.


• Monitoring the professional performance of all individuals who have clinical privileges in the division.


• Determining the