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School of Medicine Leadership Position
Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

Open Faculty Position – Associate or Full Professor Rank

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine invites applications for the position of Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). The successful candidate must have an MD or DO degree. The candidate needs to be organized with a detail-oriented approach and a collaborative approach to leadership. The incumbent will have a concurrent academic appointment in an appropriate department in the School of Medicine and participate in teaching and research or creative activities. The successful applicant must qualify for an academic appointment in Professor Clinical X or Health Sciences Clinical series at the associate or full professor ranks.

The CMIO is the clinical and informatics leader with the responsibility to lead the design, implementation, and adoption of clinical information systems and tools to achieve clinical quality, safety, efficiency, and patient experience goals. The CMIO will facilitate key clinical leadership groups in the creation of required clinical content, decision support, protocols, and workflows. The CMIO will ensure that clinical information systems follow national, local, regional, and best practices for standards, terminology, interoperability, and performance. The CMIO will provide leadership for continuous advancement and optimization of clinical systems including the Epic EHR platform. The CMIO will operate as a leader in helping to establish and communicate a vision and plan for the use of clinical systems and the EHR, serving as the primary liaison between IT and clinical communities.

The CMIO will support the optimization of clinician productivity, efficient use of time, and achieving the goals of clinical care. The CMIO will be responsible for developing innovative approaches to training, adoption, and system use, including workflow-based, clinical-goal-based training and simulations. The CMIO will ensure the provision of consistent comparable education, training, and support, including real-time support to all individuals at multiple clinical sites; identifying the learners that assimilate skills, knowledge, or behaviors at sub-standard rates and developing remedial actions that result in measured outcomes that achieve the goals of the program. The CMIO will support clinicians in maximizing communication with affiliates, partners, and referring physicians. The CMIO is the data and analytics leader that supports the organization’s goals to use data as an asset. The CMIO will lead the design and development of dashboards, reports, analytics, and advanced analytics capability including approaches to design, and use of AI-based systems. The CMIO will be responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and use of clinical information systems to assist clinicians in the delivery of the highest quality and most appropriate patient care.

The CMIO is expected to maintain an active clinical practice in their specialty at a UCR Health clinical site. This position is primarily administrative with 80% FTE devoted to the CMIO role. The remainder 20% effort will be dedicated to the candidate’s clinical academic department in clinical service and other academic pursuits. This clinical practice time is important as it helps the CMIO understand how the design of clinical information systems affects practice, and how physicians and staff use clinical systems in the provision of care. Successful candidate will also be expected to show a strong commitment to education of medical students and residents, as well as participate in creative activities, University and public service. The CMIO will seek and maintain a faculty appointment at the associate professor level or above within a department of the School of Medicine based on their academic experience.

Founded in 2013, the School of Medicine at UCR is the sixth University of California Medical School and serves the rapidly growing Inland Southern California region by training a much-needed physician workforce and catalyzing innovations in research, education, and healthcare delivery. The UCR School of Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the community in the Inland Empire, one of the most ethnically diverse and medically underserved areas of the country. UCR is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification. Advancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input.

The posted UC salary scales (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/compensation/index.html ) set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See Table 5 for the salary range. The budgetary range for this position is $121,100 - $320,100. This position includes membership in the health sciences compensation plan
(https://somacademicaffairs.ucr.edu/sites/g/files/rcwecm2346/files/2021-02/2021-02-11HSCP%20Plan.pdf), which may provide eligibility for additional compensation.

Initial review of applications will begin on June 20, 2024, and the position will remain open until filled.

TO APPLY: http://medschool.ucr.edu/employment/faculty/

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM-20.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.

The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status.

For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy please visit: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, State, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.