Professor of Pediatrics in Los Angeles, CA

Director of Clinical Research
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Children's or CHLA), a nonprofit, academic, medical center located in the heart of Los Angeles, seeks an experienced health-science research leader to serve as Director of Clinical Research. As the primary pediatric teaching center for the Keck School of Medicine (Keck School) at the University of Southern California (USC), CHLA delivers over 350,000 high-quality pediatric health care visits to more than 97,000 children every year. The hospital has a robust platform of clinical research focused on cancer, diabetes, obesity, and other children's health challenges and is home to The Saban Research Institute, which generates nearly $40 million in research funding per year. Reporting to D. Brent Polk, MD, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of The Saban Research Institute at CHLA, and Chair of Pediatrics and Vice Dean for Child Health at the Keck School of Medicine, the Director of Clinical Research will oversee the continued growth and aggressive development in the clinical research enterprise at CHLA. By strengthening an integrated support framework that spans the hospital's divisions, and by leveraging CHLA's distinctive strengths ? including its location in one of the most demographically diverse cities in the world, and its partnership with USC ? the Director will transform CHLA into a world-class center for innovative treatment and approaches to improve children's health.
The Director of Clinical Research will be expected to dramatically grow the integrated clinical research enterprise at CHLA, and help the institution in its mission to create hope and build healthier futures. The Director will work with physician-researchers across the hospital, and with academic leaders at the Keck School and other departments, to forge a highly effective, efficient operational framework that will help CHLA bring health-care solutions from bench to bedside to improve the health of children in Southern California and around the world. The Director will provide internal leadership, ensuring a seamless research infrastructure that supports staff and faculty in advancing clinical research; and s/he will work externally, engaging with an array of partners and stakeholders to enhance clinical research across the campuses of USC. The successful candidate for the Director of Clinical Research will be an MD with a highly successful and productive track record in clinical research either in industry and/or academia; s/he will be an academic researcher with experience as a principal investigator or a medical professional from the bio-medical industry, pharmaceutical industry, or a clinical research organization.
USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, or veteran status.
Inquiries, nominations, and applications should be directed to David Bellshaw or Bernard Jones at Isaacson, Miller at (click to respond) or 415.655.4900.
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