The Division of Nephrology and Hypertension seeks a visionary, dynamic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as the next division director.

Key responsibilities of the position include:

Leadership

• Developing and leading transformational clinical, research and educational programs

• Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise

• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff from varied backgrounds and experiences through mentorship and development of academic skills to fulfill the division’s mission and responsibilities, including promoting a culture of collaboration and patient-centered care

• Practicing financial sustainability by managing division budgets, resource allocation, and by identifying funding opportunities and diversifying revenue streams

• Achieving excellence in every activity, including business and support functions

• Providing impartial and visionary leadership by striking a proper balance of “Division and Institution” with uncompromising integrity and ethics

• Continuous and enduring advocacy to garner support and resources for all division members to ensure their success

• Creates transparent internal decision-making systems that foster accountability and enables leaders to set priorities and monitor performance against key strategic and operational goals

• As CCHMC continues to grow its regional, national, and international presence, clinicians may be asked to work at locations outside of the Burnet Campus.

Clinical Care

• Provides leadership for all our clinical care services, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that drive clinical excellence and reputation

• Monitors, ensures, and is accountable for faculty, physician, and staff productivity, wellness, and organizational engagement.

• Ensures compliance with medical center policies and State and Federal regulations.

• Serves as the direct liaison to the Chair of Pediatrics/In-Chiefs/CCHMC Executive Leadership team to promote and share the Division’s success, while promoting the broader institutional success of CCHMC.

Research

• Provides leadership for all our research programs, centers of excellence, destination programs, and multi-disciplinary initiatives that enhance our research reputation and drive clinical innovation

• Discerns and leads ideal blends of basic, translational, clinical, quality improvement, and outcomes research portfolios.

• Provides a strategic vision to lead and cultivate an environment conducive to transformative research.

• Enhances CCHMC’s ability to successfully compete for extramural programmatic funding through collaborative and collegiate research.

• Recruits, develops, and retains research faculty within the Division.

• Oversees research quality and compliance initiatives.

Education and Training

• Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming

• Provides supervision and review of education and training programs in Nephrology and Hypertension for medical students, pediatric residents, and nephrology fellows

• Assesses the quality of teaching by faculty, assuring professionalism.

• Promotes continuing education programs for professionals, including hospital teaching rounds and lectures.

• In conjunction with the clinical fellowship training director and other key stakeholders, is responsible for planning, developing, administering, and evaluating the interdisciplinary professional education programs.

• Overseeing educational/training programs and ensuring effective mentorship and guidance of trainees.

Advocacy

• Assuring professionalism and a positive culture across division faculty and staff, and adherence to the Cincinnati Children’s mission

• Maintaining and expanding the extensive interdisciplinary network of interactions with other Divisions and Departments at CCHMC, University of Cincinnati, other academic centers, and industry partners.

• Serves as an effective and inspirational legislative and policy advocate on behalf of CCHMC.

• Actively participates in and leads community involvement and programs. With representatives of relevant community and state agencies, studies community needs and reviews on a regular basis.

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension:

The division aspires to be the global leader in improving the care and outcomes for children with kidney diseases by providing clinical care to children with kidney and hypertensive diseases across the globe. The division can achieve this high standard because of the innovative basic, data, translational, clinical, and outcomes research it performs, and through education and service to the community and professional societies.

Services provided include inpatient (over 7,000 annual encounters), outpatient (6,500+ encounters, multiple interdisciplinary clinics and destination programs), clinical labs (more than 50,000 nephrologic tests in a CAP/CLIA lab annually), and biomarker services (discovery, development, translation, validation, commercialization of numerous biomarker panels).

The division receives over $2 million in research funding annually in extramural funds. Research focus areas range from acute kidney injury, critical care nephrology, fetal care, chronic kidney disease, complement-mediated kidney disorders, and kidney transplantation, with about 120 peer-reviewed publications each year.

The institution is consistently ranked among the top pediatric nephrology specialties and #1 by reputation by the US News & World Report.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• MD, or MD/PhD, with board certification in Pediatric Nephrology

• Ability to obtain State of Ohio Medical Board licensure

• Rank of Associate or Full Professor with eligibility for appointment as an affiliated faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

• Ability to develop a collaborative vision, with a track record of successfully implementing new initiatives that meet the challenges of academic medicine and clinical care

• Strong record of accomplishment in leadership, people management, and skills in planning and facilitation

• Leads an active research program relevant to pediatric nephrology and hypertension, with a track record of extramural funding and a strong scholarly record

• Demonstration of sustained excellence in research productivity, clinical care,

• Strong national and international reputation in the field of pediatric nephrology and hypertension

• An uncompromising commitment to excellence in mentorship and teaching of trainees and junior faculty

• Experience leading a faculty group

• Ability to develop a collaborative vision, with a track record for successfully implementing new initiatives that advance the field of pediatric nephrology and hypertension

• Financial budgeting and resource management experience

• Knowledge of relevant federal and state laws and regulations

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain trust with all stakeholders

• Experience in a complex, integrated academic medical setting

• Commitment to alignment with Cincinnati Children’s culture and beliefs

• Excellent local, regional, national, and international reputation

• Demonstration of a personal style that facilitates communication, collaboration, trust, credibility, and confidence among divisional faculty and across Cincinnati Children’s

• Genuine understanding and respect for the tradition of collaborative science at Cincinnati Children's

Primary Location

Location T

Schedule

Full time

Shift

Day (United States of America)

Department

Nephrology

Employee Status

Regular

FTE

1

Weekly Hours

40

At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families, and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s.

Cincinnati Children's is:

• Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a top 10 best Children's Hospitals in the nation for more than 15 years

• Consistently among the top 3 Children's Hospitals for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding

• Recognized as one of America’s Best Large Employers (2025), America’s Best Employers for New Grads (2025)

• One of the nation's America’s Most Innovative Companies as noted by Fortune

• Consistently certified as great place to work

• A Leading Disability Employer as noted by the National Organization on Disability

• Magnet® designated for the fourth consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

We Embrace Innovation—Together. We believe in empowering our teams with the tools that help us work smarter and care better. That’s why we support the responsible use of artificial intelligence. By encouraging innovation, we’re creating space for new ideas, better outcomes, and a stronger future—for all of us.

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Cincinnati Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an environment of dignity and respect for all our employees, patients, and families. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, genetic information, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. EEO/Veteran/Disability