Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief

Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Health

New Haven, Connecticut

Yale School of Medicine invites applications and nominations for the position of Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief for Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and Yale New Haven Health. This is a distinctive opportunity to lead a large, complex, and highly collaborative academic department at one of the nation’s premier academic medical institutions and to serve as the senior physician leader for pediatrics across an integrated academic health system.

The Department of Pediatrics serves as the academic and clinical backbone for pediatric care, research, and education across Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health. Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital is the primary site of pediatric inpatient and specialty care and the core teaching hospital, anchoring a pediatric enterprise that spans the health system, encompasses every pediatric subspecialty, and sets systemwide standards for children’s health.

Over the past decade, the department has expanded its clinical footprint, strengthened its research enterprise, and sustained a nationally respected educational mission. Demand for pediatric subspecialty care continues to grow across the region, placing increased emphasis on coordination across inpatient, ambulatory, and community-based settings. At the same time, collaborations with departments such as genetics, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, medicine, the Child Study Center, and the Yale Cancer Center have deepened the department’s academic foundation, contributing to rising research activity, a growing pipeline of early-career faculty, and new opportunities for interdisciplinary impact.

The department enters this search at a moment of accelerating momentum across all missions. The next Chair and Pediatrician-in-Chief will play a central role in shaping the future of pediatrics across Yale New Haven Health by guiding strategic growth within a distributed clinical enterprise, championing research and education, advocating for investments that support access and excellence, and aligning departmental priorities with systemwide goals for quality, equity, and innovation.

The next Chair of Pediatrics will join a supportive institutional environment at Yale School of Medicine, a closely aligned partnership with Yale New Haven Health, and a department poised for its next era of impact in children’s health.

Candidates must hold an MD or equivalent degree, be board-certified in a pediatric specialty, and be eligible for appointment at the rank of professor at YSM.

Applicants should submit a CV and a letter of interest to the Yale Interfolio website: apply.interfolio.com/178500. Inquiries, nominations, and referrals can be sent through the Isaacson, Miller website: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/yale-school-medicine/chair-department-pediatrics

The final candidate, upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment/faculty appointment, may be required to disclose whether they are, or have been, the subject of any disciplinary proceeding (investigation, hearing, etc.) at previous institutions or employers, and may also be subject to a background screening. Candidates who materially misrepresent information on their resume or other application materials are ineligible for hire/appointment. Final candidates may also be required to sign a release to allow Yale to solicit information regarding any substantiated conduct violations from current and/or past employers.

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