Physician Executive/CEO - Temple Faculty Physicians

Temple Health – Temple University Health System; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Temple University Health System seeks a physician executive to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Temple Faculty Physicians (TFP), the multispecialty academic practice plan. The CEO will lead TFP's strategic, operational, financial, and cultural performance and work closely with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

Reporting to the President & CEO of Temple University Health System, the role requires building partnerships with the medical school, department chairs, and system leaders to advance

Qualifications

• MD or DO required from an accredited medical school.
• Progressive executive leadership in a large multispecialty physician group or academic enterprise.
• Track record of leading operational and financial improvement in a complex environment.
• Experience partnering with medical school leadership and department chairs.

Responsibilities

• Lead TFP's strategic, operational, financial, and cultural performance in alignment with TUHS and LKSOM.
• Oversee revenue cycle, provider compensation, workforce strategy, quality, and patient access.
• Staff and develop the TFP leadership team with clear accountability and succession planning.
• Drive governance, funds flow, and academic collaboration between TFP, Temple Health, and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.
• Manage annual operating budget and long‑term financial plan.

Skills

Executive leadership

P&L accountability

Healthcare system integration

Partnership with medical school

Education

MD or DO from an accredited medical school

MBA or business credential

Job description

Temple University Health System is seeking a physician executive to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Temple Faculty Physicians (TFP) — the multispecialty academic practice plan through which Temple's clinical faculty deliver care across Temple Health.

The CEO is responsible for the overall leadership and performance of TFP and partners closely with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

About Temple Faculty Physicians

• 800+ physicians and advanced practice providers across the full range of medical and surgical specialties
• Care delivered at Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Jeanes Campus, Episcopal Campus, Chestnut Hill Hospital, and ambulatory sites throughout the Philadelphia region
• Physicians are dually employed by TFP and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM), holding faculty appointments while practicing through TFP
• A payer mix and acuity profile that demand disciplined, creative physician enterprise leadership — and make that leadership matter

Position Summary

Reporting directly to the President & CEO of Temple University Health System, the CEO is accountable for TFP's strategic, operational, financial, and cultural performance — clinical operations, financial results, provider compensation and workforce strategy, quality and access, and compliance.

A successful leader in this role is experienced in leading through influence and building effective partnerships with the medical school, department chairs, operational leaders, and all parts of the integrated health system.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop a multi-year strategy for TFP aligned with the TUHS strategic plan and LKSOM's academic priorities
• Integrate practice plan operations — payer contracting, revenue cycle, access, care standards, shared services — into the broader clinical enterprise while preserving departmental identity
• Partner with system leadership on ambulatory growth, network development, service lines, and physician-facing capital investment

Academic Partnership and Governance

• Establish a structured, trusted working relationship with the Dean of LKSOM, including a clear framework for joint decisions on funds flow, recruitment, effort allocation, and chair searches
• Serve as the principal executive partner to clinical department chairs and co-lead the Council of Chairs
• Staff the TFP board and keep governance structures current and effective
• Lead TFP's operating budget, multi-year financial plan, and results
• Design and administer a transparent, defensible academic funds flow model
• Drive revenue cycle performance and partner on payer strategy, including value-based and risk-bearing arrangements
• Build provider- and department-level analytics on productivity, margin, access, and cost

Provider Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention

• Oversee physician recruitment strategy jointly with chairs and the Dean's office
• Champion faculty wellness, development, and retention
• Make the practice plan transparent and legible to the physicians it serves
• Build the next generation of physician leaders

Quality, Access, and Patient Experience

• Set and achieve access targets — new patient availability, third-next-available, referral capture, continuity
• Align TFP incentives to system quality and population health goals
• Own patient experience performance across TFP sites
• Sponsor ambulatory EHR and digital access strategy: scheduling, telehealth, messaging, provider efficiency

Operations and Organizational Development

• Standardize ambulatory operations — staffing, templates, site management — where it improves performance
• Develop a TFP leadership team with clear accountability and succession depth
• Establish a disciplined operating rhythm with transparent scorecards and closed-loop follow-through

Qualifications

Required

• MD or DO from an accredited medical or osteopathic medical school
• Progressive executive leadership in a large multispecialty physician group, academic practice plan, or integrated physician enterprise, including P&L accountability
• A track record of leading operational and financial improvement, integration, or large-scale change in a complex, matrixed environment
• Substantive experience partnering with medical school leadership and clinical department chairs

Preferred

• MBA or equivalent business credential
• Experience in an academic health system serving a complex urban or safety-net population
• Experience with value-based and risk-bearing contracting
• Experience leading through governance transition, employment consolidation, or practice plan restructuring
• Experience negotiating and administering funds flow between separately governed academic and clinical entities

About Temple Health

Temple Health is an academic health system with a deeply rooted mission: exceptional care for a community that needs it, education of the next generation of clinicians, and research that moves medicine forward. The people who thrive here are drawn to hard problems and the belief that disciplined, humane leadership changes outcomes for patients and providers alike. As CEO of TFP, you will have the platform, the partnership, and the mandate to do exactly that.

Temple Faculty Physicians, the academic practice plan of Temple Health, is made up of more than 500 employed physicians who are the cornerstone of clinical care and teaching for Temple's healthcare enterprise. These physicians practice in 20 academic departments encompassing virtually every subspecialty in modern medicine. While remaining committed to our mission of serving patients in our North Philadelphia community, in recent years, Temple Faculty Physicians has expanded its geographic reach beyond Temple University Hospital's Health Sciences campus. Today, Temple faculty physician offices are located at Temple University Hospital and its campuses, satellite offices located in Center City Philadelphia, Fort Washington, PA, Oaks, PA, and various other outpatient settings. This expanded reach has brought Temple medical care closer to home for many of our patients.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.