Chair of Surgical Specialties

Sutter West Bay Medical Group (SWBMG) is seeking a Chair of Surgical Specialties to provide physician leadership across surgical specialties. This role involves defining the clinical vision, optimizing service line performance, and ensuring the delivery of safe, timely, and high-quality procedural care. The Chair will partner in a dyad leadership model to drive perioperative performance, surgical access, and quality outcomes, while fostering strong physician engagement and aligning with enterprise strategy.

Practice Info

• Physician leader responsible for the clinical vision, service line performance, and physician leadership across surgical specialties.
• Establishes how surgical services are organized, resourced, and optimized to deliver safe, timely, and high-quality procedural care.
• Partners in a dyad leadership model to drive perioperative performance, surgical access, quality and safety outcomes, workforce strategy, and growth.
• Ensures consistent standards, strong physician engagement, and alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Sutter West Bay Medical Group (SWBMG) is a fast-growing, premier, physician-led, multispecialty medical group with nearly 500 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
• SWBMG delivers integrated, patient-centered care across primary through quaternary care, grounded in clinical excellence, collaboration, and innovation, and is a key partner within Sutter Health’s regional care delivery network.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize the Surgical Specialties service line strategy, including ambulatory surgery, inpatient surgical services, and procedural care delivered in hospital and ASC settings.
• Ensure the highest standards of evidence-based surgical care, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish standards for timely surgical access, referral-to-procedure timelines, and case scheduling.
• Champion the role of Surgical Specialties in value-based and bundled payment models, including quality, utilization, and cost management.
• Lead the physician leadership structure for Surgical Specialties.
• Partner with the administrative dyad leader to oversee access, staffing models, productivity, and financial performance across surgical services.
• Identify and sponsor new surgical programs, service expansions, and procedural innovations.
• Ensure clear, consistent communication across Surgical Specialty physicians and leaders.

Compensation

• $400,000 - $550,000 /Yr.

Requirements

• MD or DO with board certification in a surgical specialty.
• Significant clinical experience in surgical practice.
• Demonstrated senior physician leadership experience.
• Experience with perioperative operations, quality improvement, and service line performance.
• Familiarity with value-based care, bundled payments, and utilization management.
• Experience working in dyad leadership models.
• Strong strategic, communication, and change management skills.