Executive Medical Director Medical Group Surgical Quality

Endeavor Health | Evanston, Illinois (Chicago suburbs) and system-wide

Endeavor Health is seeking a practicing surgeon leader to serve as Executive Medical Director of Surgical Quality - a key partner to our Department of Surgery who will provide the strategic and operational leadership behind our system-wide surgical quality initiative. This physician executive sets the strategy for surgical quality, patient safety, and clinical outcomes across all surgical service lines system-wide.

Working alongside surgeons, hospital and nursing leadership, and quality and operational teams, you will standardize care, reduce clinical variation, and build a durable culture of continuous improvement - while serving as the senior advisor to executive leadership on surgical quality strategy, performance, and accreditation readiness.

Structure: 0.6 FTE administrative, 0.4 FTE clinical. Full time, Monday-Friday, with flexible scheduling. System-wide travel required

Weare open on the specialty. Urology, Plastics, Cardiac, Vascular, General Surgery, ENT, or Thoracic.

Core Responsibilities

• Set and lead the system-wide surgical quality and patient safety agenda across all surgical specialties
• Develop specialty-specific clinical pathways and operational playbooks; drive cross-specialty benchmarking to spread best practices
• Own surgical quality and safety metrics, dashboards, and reporting in partnership with analytics and IT (Epic)
• Oversee Morbidity and Mortality Conferences across the system
• Lead safe introduction of new procedures and technologies; partner with risk management on event review and prevention
• Ensure clinical care and documentation meet regulatory and accreditation standards
• Align quality metrics with payer, value-based care, and system goals
• Advance patient access, throughput, and experience across surgical services

Benefits

• Competitive salary + incentives
• CME days and allowance
• malpractice coverage with tail
• time off
• Medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• retirement plan with company match
• PSLF eligibility
• extensive wellness
• family
• and lifestyle benefits
• free parking at designated locations
• and community involvement opportunities and much more

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited institution; Doctorate Medicine Required
• Board certification in a surgical specialty within the Department of Surgery - Urology, Plastic Surgery, Cardiac, Vascular, General Surgery, Otolaryngology, or Thoracic
• Illinois medical license or eligibility
• 5+ years of practice with demonstrated leadership in surgical quality improvement
• Experience with clinical quality data, EMR/Epic optimization, and population health
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, with a collaborative, action-oriented approach

Endeavor Health is an equal opportunity employer.