Executive Director, Center for Health Services Research

University Hospitals Health System (UH) seeks a highly accomplished and nationally recognized clinician scientist to serve as the inaugural Executive Director for the UH Center for Health Services Research (HSR), a newly formed health-system-wide research center that will organize and catalyze the growing portfolio of health services, health outcomes, population health, and implementation science research at University Hospitals Health System. The Center will be guided by a new 5 year strategic and financial plan developed in 2023.  The Executive Director will report to the UH President, Academic & External Affairs and Chief Scientific Officer and will also collaborate closely with leaders of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. 

UH has a broad foundation of funded HSR scientists in a wide range of thematic areas, and it has seen significant growth in its sponsored portfolio since 2020.   At present, UH has $95M in health services research and UH HSR researchers currently collaborate across multiple units and disciplines. The Executive Director will guide the integration of research activities into a hub and spoke model with centralized core resources and infrastructure linked to the 19 clinical departments across University Hospitals Health System.  The Center for HSR will grow and support strong research, education/training, and community engagement to improve the impact and delivery of healthcare both in Northeast Ohio and across the country. Under the Center for HSR strategic and financial plan, it is envisioned the Executive Director will recruit 3 associate directors, incremental clinician scientists, medical writers, post-award support staff, and key cores including biostatisticians and epidemiologists.  In addition to HSR grant revenue, University Hospitals Health System will support the new Center for HSR for up to $2 million per year, tied to key performance metrics of increasing HSR research funding and growing academic careers of our HSR researchers.

The Cleveland area has tremendous depth in healthcare research, and this Executive Director will work to develop appropriate partnerships across the region including but not limited to partnerships with Metro Health, Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and city and county public health programs.

The successful candidate will bring evidence of leading, coordinating, and facilitating interdisciplinary research teams, be a clinician scientist (MD, MD/PhD, PhD), and will bring strong expertise with formal training in health services research. The Executive Director will have appointments at UH and within the CWRU School of Medicine, in the appropriate department and with the appropriate rank based on the candidate’s research background. The candidate should bring expertise in nationally recognized health services research, along with a strong record of scholarly, peer-reviewed publications.  

All applications, inquiries, nominations/referrals, and resumes with cover letters should be submitted electronically below.

Ariannah Mirick is leading the search with Haley Burrowes. 

It is the policy of University Hospitals to provide equal opportunity to all of our employees and applicants for employment. Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions or other conditions of employment are all made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, veteran status, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status in accordance with Federal and Ohio law. A qualified individual with a disability will be considered for employment on the same basis as non- disabled applicants if he/she can perform the essential functions of the job sought, with or without a reasonable accommodation, and without imposing a direct threat to the health or safety of others or him/herself.