Application Window Open date: October 14, 2026
Next review date: Friday, Nov 13, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Apr 14, 2028 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position descriptionUCSF School of Medicine and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals
Department of Pediatrics
HS Clinical Faculty
The Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (BCH) are recruiting for the next Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety (EMD for Q&S). The successful candidate will be appointed at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank in the Health Sciences (HS) Clinical faculty series, commensurate with experience.
The selected candidate will serve as the Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, the senior clinical executive responsible for designing and advancing a unified, high-reliability pediatric quality and safety strategy across BCH. The EMD for Q&S will integrate deep pediatric clinical expertise with strategic, system-level leadership to advance equitable, high-value care, reduce preventable harm, and strengthen a culture of safety and continuous improvement across all BCH sites.
The EMD for Q&S will partner closely with BCH executive leadership and leaders across UCSF Health and the UCSF School of Medicine to translate institutional priorities into measurable outcomes and ensure the consistent delivery of excellent, patient-centered, and equitable care across the pediatric enterprise.
The selected candidate will join a major academic medical center and established training program and will actively contribute to the Department of Pediatrics' mission of excellence in research, education, and patient care. The position may include clinical responsibilities at both the San Francisco and Oakland campuses.
Strategic Leadership & Impact
The EMD provides enterprise-level vision and direction for BCH's quality and safety agenda, ensuring alignment with UCSF Health's strategic goals and national pediatric standards. The role reports to the BCH Chief Medical Officer and, in dyad partnership with the BCH Executive Director of Quality & Safety:
- Serves as the architect of BCH's high-reliability journey, embedding safety culture, reliability behaviors, principles of human factors, and learning systems across all pediatric care settings.
- Leads the systemwide strategy for harm reduction, clinical effectiveness, care-variation reduction, and value optimization, ensuring BCH delivers consistently excellent, evidence-based, and equitable care.
- Drives cross-bay alignment of structures, processes, and best practices, establishing unified standards that support reliable, high-quality care across all BCH locations.
- Champions equity as a core quality aim, embedding inclusive access measurements, and transparent reporting into all QI and safety initiatives.
- Strengthens organizational capability by coaching leaders, clinicians, and interprofessional teams in improvement science, human factors, and data-driven decision-making, building a workforce skilled in high-reliability behaviors.
- Represents BCH as a national leader in pediatric quality and safety, actively participating in SPS, CHA collaboratives, and other national forums to advance pediatric safety science and elevate BCH's visibility and influence.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Quality & Safety Strategy
- Co-lead BCH's integrated Quality & Safety function with the Executive Director of Q&S, CMOs, and CNOs, setting systemwide priorities and ensuring operational execution.
- Oversee essential domains including clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, patient safety event review, and harm reduction.
- Direct the annual BCH Q&S strategic goalsetting process, including True North Scorecard deployment and SPS-aligned harm-reduction initiatives.
- Establish systemwide expectations for standardization of clinical pathways, prevention bundles, and evidence-based practices.
Governance & Committee Leadership
- Chair the BCH Quality Improvement Committee, ensuring mission clarity, accountability, and alignment with institutional priorities.
- Cochair the BCH Patient Safety Committee, shaping agendas, priorities, and oversight of harm-reduction work.
- Provide executive oversight for quality and safety committees at both SF and Oakland campuses.
- Represent BCH at major UCSF Health forums including EMB, MEC Oakland, QIEC, Chairs & Chiefs, Pediatrics Executive Leaders, and the Quality & Safety Committee of the Board.
Operational Excellence & Clinical Effectiveness
- Lead the development and maturation of BCH's clinical effectiveness strategy in partnership with analytics, informatics, and physician leaders.
- Partner with perioperative quality and safety leadership to advance systemwide alignment and targeted improvement efforts.
- Drive digital quality modernization, including real time dashboards, predictive analytics, and Epic optimization to support proactive safety surveillance and clinical effectiveness.
Culture, Capability Building & Workforce Development
- Mentor and develop emerging leaders and champions across BCH to strengthen improvement capability and embed high-reliability behaviors.
- Lead systemwide education in improvement science, human factors, and safety culture for leaders and frontline teams.
- Partner with BCH leadership to ensure improvement inclusive access to care outcomes.
- Support psychological safety, leader rounding, and safety coaching programs to reinforce a culture of learning and transparency.
Data, Analytics & Regulatory Stewardship
- Leverage advanced analytical acumen to identify opportunities, mobilize insights, and drive clinical and operational effectiveness.
- Ensure BCH meets or exceeds expectations from regulatory and measurement bodies including The Joint Commission, CMS, SPS, and CHA.
- Oversee accurate, timely reporting of organizational quality and safety metrics to QSEC, the BCH and UCSF Boards, EMB, and other governance bodies.
- Partner with analytics and informatics teams to strengthen BCH's digital quality infrastructure and real-time performance visibility.
Systemwide Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with BCH administrative and clinical leadership, departmental chairs, service line leaders, and operational executives to accelerate improvement, reduce harm, and optimize value.
- Support divisions and service lines in achieving quality and safety goals through data-driven improvement, evidence-based practice adoption, and real-time visualization of performance.
- Serve as a trusted spokesperson for BCH on quality and safety issues, representing the organization with professionalism and clarity.
- Represent BCH in national collaboratives, contributing to pediatric quality and safety scholarship and thought leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES
Required Qualifications:
- Medical degree (MD, DO, or equivalent) and eligibility for medical licensure in California.
- Board certification or eligibility in a clinical specialty or subspecialty relevant to the care of pediatric patients.
- Formal clinical training and demonstrated expertise in the care of pediatric patients.
- Successful candidates will show interest in a career in academic pediatrics.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience guiding interdisciplinary teams in complex healthcare environments and academic teaching institutions.
- Proven track record in quality improvement, patient safety, harm-reduction initiatives, and high-reliability transformation.
- Expertise in safety event review, categorization, and improvement implementation.
- Training in improvement/implementation science (Lean, Six Sigma, IHI Model for Improvement).
- Strong understanding of hospital efficiency, operations, EHR analytics, finance, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with clinical effectiveness, utilization management, and value-based care.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in participating in or leading national collaboratives (e.g., SPS, CHA).
The total compensation for this position ranges from $244,600-$470,500.
Total compensation at the University of California, San Francisco includes your base salary, which is determined by your rank and step at appointment, and negotiated pay for Health Sciences Compensation Plan members. Faculty who are members of the Health Sciences Compensation Plan may also be eligible for additional incentive pay.
Please click here to apply with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for 3 references. Applicant materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission. The selected candidate must meet all of the qualifications at the time of appointment.
For more information contact:
Peter Oishi, MD
Associate Chief Medical Officer, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Peter.Oishi@ucsf.edu
Application RequirementsDocument requirements - Cover Letter
- Curriculum Vitae - CV must clearly list current and/or pending qualifications (e.g. board eligibility/certification, medical licensure, etc.).
- Statement of Research (Optional)
- Statement of Teaching (Optional)
Reference requirements- 3 required (contact information only)
Job location San Francisco and/or Oakland, CA
