The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center is looking for a dynamic leader to serve as the section chief of Hematology/Oncology.

The Section Chief, Hematology/Oncology provides effective leadership of clinical operations and the staff of the Hematology/Oncology section on a day-to-day basis. They work cooperatively with facility leadership and interdisciplinary staff to move the Medical Center and the Hematology/Oncology Section toward achieving their mission, goals, and objectives in patient care, education, and research.

Expected duties include, but are not limited to:

• Delivering care in inpatient and outpatient settings providing full diagnostic evaluation, decision-making regarding chemotherapy and other treatments, and extensive counseling of patients. Managing the care of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, along with benign hematologic.
• Teaching medical school students and residents in various settings, small groups, and at the bedside, stressing problem-based learning. In addition, the ideal candidate mentors Hematology/Oncology fellows in the inpatient, outpatient, and occasionally in the research arena. The candidate must have superb teaching, mentoring, and administrative skills as an integral component of the core curriculum and administration of the Hematology/Oncology fellowship program, and must qualify for an academic appointment at our affiliated university, University of Colorado (CU), Denver.
• In the outpatient setting, supervising hematology/oncology trainees and maintaining a panel of patients. Teaching by role modeling, is particularly important, as is the coordination of care among the many components of the multidisciplinary aspect of hematology/oncology patient care delivery. The Section Chief provides thoughtful counseling of patients and families in the clinic setting and supervises fellows in the performance of bone marrow biopsies and intrathecal administration of chemotherapy.
• Pursuing research opportunities as desired, involving clinical studies, either physician-initiated or multi-institutional collaboratives. This requires administrative responsibility to collect and appropriately maintain patient data and to manage the process required for clinical trial approval as well as oversight of clinical trial personnel.
• Serving as Chair of the Cancer Care Committee.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 40hrs/wk; Provide evening, weekend, and holiday coverage of the hematology/oncology consultation service in rotation with other staff Hematology-Oncologists.

Recruitment or Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Not Authorized

Candidates must be: 1) Residency trained in Internal Medicine, 2) Fellowship trained in Hematology Oncology, and 3) Have a full, unrestricted medical license in any State Preferred Experience: Board Certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology; candidate should have broad clinical experience in both Hematology and Medical Oncology; evidence of progressive growth in leadership and academic experience; VA experience a plus.

Facility Information: 

The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center is a welcomed step forward in meeting the increased health care needs of today's Veteran population. This facility replaced the Denver facility of 670,000 square feet with a new state of the art campus of approximately 1.2 million square feet on 31 acres, providing many new services to Veterans. The Aurora, Colorado location is ideally located on the southeast corner of the former Fitzsimons Army Base just off Interstate 225, immediately west of RTD's light rail station and neighboring Children's Hospital and the University of Colorado Anschutz Health Care Campus. Leading edge technology is designed into every aspect of the new campus, bringing Veterans high quality health care well into the 21st century. Guiding principles for the new campus include patient safety, improving the Veteran's health care experience, promoting the family's role in care delivery, and protecting our environment through green design. The VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System's specialized personal care epitomizes excellence in health care, delivered through a unique combination of medical center-based and local community-focused medicine, that brings innovative and leading-edge care to Veterans throughout the region. 

Community Information:

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Benefits Information:

• The VA supports healthy work-life-family balance by offering a robust menu of employee benefits and features
• The expected range of annual salary is $288,000 to $365,000 and includes biennial longevity pay increases
• Physician staff may be considered for an annual performance pay bonus up to $15,000.00 or 7.5% (whichever is less) 
• Annual Paid time off includes 26 days’ of vacation with pay, 13 days sick leave, 11 federal holidays observed and CME
• Health-Dental-Vision-Life Insurance with premiums partially offset or paid by the government with retirement portability
• Retirement Plans includes Federal Employee Retirement System (DB) and Thrift Savings Plan (DC) with 5% matching

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About Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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