Chief Medical Officer/Faculty Physician

Physician Pivot; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor College of Medicine's Baylor Medicine group is seeking a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead clinical strategy, quality initiatives, and physician relations within a dynamic academic practice in Texas.

In collaboration with executive leadership, the CMO will drive performance dashboards, value-based care, and enterprise growth while supporting BCM’s education and research missions and mentoring future leaders.

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school with active Texas license and DEA registration.
• Board certification in a recognized medical or surgical specialty.
• MBA, MHA or MPH preferred to manage enterprise business operations.
• 10+ years of clinical practice with 5+ years in healthcare leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead ambulatory infrastructure, set performance targets, and promote care standards.
• Align physicians and clinical programs; drive continuous quality improvement.
• Collaborate on budgets, forecasting, and financial modeling for Baylor Medicine.
• Develop actionable clinical dashboards; ensure performance data reaches stakeholders.
• Mentor future leaders and strengthen physician relations while upholding BCM values.

Skills

Collaborative leadership

Clinical quality improvement

Patient safety

Strategic growth planning

Revenue cycle awareness

Education

MD/DO with Texas license

Board certification in medical/surgical specialty

MBA/MHA/MPH preferred

Job description

Summary

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the primary physician executive for Baylor Medicine, the College’s group medical practice, and works within a leadership triad with the Baylor College of Medicine Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs and the Baylor Medicine Chief Operating Officer (COO). In partnership with the COO, the CMO advances a market-relevant, patient-centered, high-performing group practice in support of the Baylor College of Medicine Baylor Medicine Brand Promise.

Reporting Structure

Reports directly to the Executive Vice President (EVP) of Clinical Affairs, or designee. The CMO works in collaboration with Baylor Medicine’s Chief Quality Officer (CQO) and COO, and works closely with Department Chairs, President’s team, and Medical Directors to support BCM physicians and teams.

General CMO Duties

• Ensures that ambulatory infrastructure keeps pace with current and future practice operations. Establishes consistent performance targets and metrics, promotes common standards of care, measures and improves clinical outcomes, and disseminates best practices.
• Works with key physician leaders to align physicians and clinical programs; integrates standards of care; and drives continuous improvement of quality.
• In collaboration with the EVP or designee, will work collaboratively with the Baylor Medicine Council and the CPC to support the work of relevant task forces, including a Baylor Medicine Council Advisory Group consisting of medical staff leaders identified by the EVP to serve in support of developing optimized Baylor Medicine practices.
• Leads the process of medical director supervision, goal setting and assessment and oversees the professional development of medical directors. Works with the EVP and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Quality Officer to produce actionable, timely, and accurate clinical dashboards; ensures that performance information is received by applicable stakeholders and actively used to drive performance improvement.
• Works with BCM leadership to build necessary infrastructure and systems to compete in a value-based reimbursement environment; leveraging the resources of all system affiliate partners.
• Works in collaboration with appropriate teams in preparation of internal and external reporting, budgeting, forecasting, capital budgeting, and financial modeling of the Baylor Medicine group practice.
• Assures that the clinical environment in which physicians practice is supportive of Baylor College of Medicine’s academic missions in education and research.
• Works to identify, develop, and mentor future leaders across the enterprise.

Physician Relations

• Updates leadership on policies and procedures and brings physician concerns to the attention of the EVP and the BCM President.
• Initiates conversations with physicians about improvement when requested by a Baylor Medicine Medical Director.
• Models BCM core values and leads efforts to improve physician relations within the group.

Education

Minimum Qualifications:

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school and active, unrestricted Texas medical license and federal DEA registration.
• Current board certification in a recognized medical or surgical specialty.
• Preferred: A Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Health Administration (MHA), or Master of Public Health (MPH) is strongly preferred to manage enterprise business operations.

Experience

• 10+ years of clinical practice experience with at least 5 years of healthcare leadership experience such as serving as a clinical department chair, division chief, or medical director within an academic setting.
• Eligibility for or appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor within the affiliated medical school.

Core Competencies And Skills

• Ability to collaborate effectively with academic deans, College executives, and clinical department chairs.
• Expertise in clinical quality improvement, patient safety protocols, and compliance with standards from bodies like CMS and The Joint Commission.
• Experience with faculty practice budgeting, revenue cycle metrics, clinical compensation plans, and strategic growth planning.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.