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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…