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Primary Duties

A. Administrative and Educational Duties
The Vice Chair of Emergency Resuscitation and Innovation (ERI) will be a senior leader and member of the executive
faculty within the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM). At the direction of the Chair of the
DEM, the Vice Chair of ERI will work closely with DEM faculty, stakeholders throughout Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center and LA County DHS, as well as outside policy, operational, government, funding, and academic stakeholders
to execute program development, innovation, and implementation and help shape DEM’s strategic
priorities. The Vice Chair of ERI will leverage the DEM’s strong ties with partner agencies while fostering new
relationships to expand care delivery, operational efficiency, research, and education. Specifically, the Vice
Chair of ERI will focus on developing, implementing, and optimizing programs including but not limited to:
best practices in the immediate and longitudinal resuscitation of critically ill emergency patients, prehospital
care, community first aid and bystander care, creative delivery of value-based out-of-hospital emergency care,
DEM research and project infrastructure, hospital and regional disaster preparedness, and broad educational
outreach for prehospital clinicians and the public. The incumbent will supervise DEM Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) faculty who are responsible for EMS medical direction through the hospital’s base station, direct
other DEM prehospital and disaster functions, and aid in EMS fellow education. The incumbent will grow the
DEM’s critical care presence and collaborate across the enterprise to build collaborative critical care from the
point-of-injury through definitive treatment. The Vice Chair of ERI will coordinate closely with the Vice Chair of
Clinical Operations on a variety of DEM patient care issues.
As a full-time faculty member at a premier academic institution with emergency medicine resident and fellow
training, and student educational programs, the Vice Chair of ERI will be expected to: attend EM Faculty and
DEM Executive Council meetings, collaborate with the clinical operations leadership and other relevant clinical
departments, interview residency applicants, contribute regularly to the residency didactic curriculum, attend
DEM conferences, in addition to clinical shift coverage. Additional meetings and duties may be assigned by the
Chair. Faculty are expected to dedicate sufficient effort to administrative duties to achieve excellent results.

B. Clinical Duties
The Vice Chair of ERI will provide clinical coverage in the Adult and/or Pediatric Emergency Departments, and
will be assigned shifts providing direct patient care, including on nights, weekends, and holidays, according to
DEM practices. The shift load may vary, at the discretion of the Chair, based on Department needs. During
these clinical shifts, the faculty member will be responsible for the education and supervision of various learners,
including medical students, nurse practitioners, resident physicians, fellows, as well as the provision of
direct patient care, as appropriate. Critical care certified faculty may have the option to perform part of their
clinical duties in the Surgical ICU at the discretion of the DEM Chair and Department of Surgery. The faculty
member will be expected to evaluate learners.

C. Scholarly and Academic Activities
The Vice Chair will be expected to produce academic and creative work. The creative work may span a variety
of areas including original research, quality improvement, health services research, educational research,
or policy creation. The incumbent will work with the Chair and research faculty to plan and guide scholarly
activities. These efforts should result in peer-reviewed publications that advance knowledge and demonstrate
the impact of the faculty member’s work.

The Vice Chair of ERI will also be appointed as a non-tenured faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A successful candidate for the Vice Chair position
should merit appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor.

Required Qualifications

Faculty candidates must be board certified in Emergency Medicine by either the American Board of Emergency
Medicine or the American Board of Osteopathic Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine subspecialty
training and a graduate degree in a related health services or public health field is preferred. The candidate
should possess strong medicine clinical skills, demonstrate excellence and commitment as an educator,
and experience and ongoing interest in research and scholarship. The successful candidate for the Vice Chair
of ERI position should possess exceptional skills and experience in teamwork and coalition building, program
development and implementation, creative work, leadership, funding acquisition and fiscal stewardship, and
out of hospital emergency care delivery. A track record of work with government agencies is preferred. Specific
subject matter expertise in critical care, EMS, and/or operational medicine is highly desirable.

The County of Los Angeles is an active equal opportunity employer.

Applicants should send a letter of interest and CV to:
Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, MHCDS, FACEP
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
cgoolsby@dhs.lacounty.gov

About Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Harbor-UCLA) is a Level 1 Trauma Center and Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center inTorrance, California. Harbor-UCLA serves as a crucial Department of Health Services (DHS) safety net hospitalfor the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, and it boasts a decades-long track record of exceptional caredelivery, education, and innovation. The Los Angeles County DHS is the nation’s second largest metropolitanhealth system. The DHS mission is to, “advance the health of our patients and our communities by providingextraordinary care,” and its vision is to be, “recognized nationally as a model integrated health system.” TheDepartment of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Harbor-UCLA has more than 90,000 patient visits annually froma largely underserved population. The DEM has a storied history as one of the nation’s first Emergency Medicineresidencies, the site of the first formal paramedic training program and has a track record of outstandingtraining and highly influential faculty contributions in clinical care, education, leadership, and research.Harbor-UCLA is a key teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. UCLA consistentlyranks as one of the ...nation’s top medical schools and health systems, and its mission is to, “deliver leadingedgepatient care, research, education, and community engagement.”

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