Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Job title:
Medical Director, Ross Tilley Burn Centre
Company
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Job description
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre · Medical Director, Ross Tilley Burn CentreApplications are invited for the position of a Medical Director of the Ross Tilley Burn Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a fully affiliated academic health sciences facility of the University of Toronto, located in Toronto, Ontario. This appointment is for a 5-year term, renewable once.The Medical Director of the Ross Tilley Burn Centre is responsible for providing leadership to the Burn Centre’s Medical team including burn surgeons. This will be done in close collaboration with the Burn Centre’s Patient Care Manager to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality of care. Equally important, the Medical Director will foster excellent working relationships within the team, the broader Sunnybrook community, and our referral partners. The Medical Director will report jointly to the Program Chief and the Executive Vice President accountable for the Tory Trauma Program.It is anticipated that the Medical Director of the Burn Centre will have completed a burn fellowship and has acquired extensive experience in the surgical care and critical care of patients with burns, from hospital admission through discharge, have excellent leadership skills, and demonstrated excellence in at least one scholarly domain, such as teaching, research, or quality improvement.The successful candidate will hold an MD/equivalent and have certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or equivalent qualification. This role requires all candidates to be able to function proficiently in English, to be qualified to hold a clinical full-time academic appointment at the University of Toronto at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in an appropriate clinical department and have, or be eligible for, certification with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.About the Ross Tilley Burn CentreThe Ross Tilley Burn Centre is a state-of-the-art facility providing tertiary care for the vast majority of burn injury patients in Ontario. We are the only program in the province that provides a complete range of services, from admission to follow-up and reconstructive surgery. We are the largest burn centre in Canada and admit an average of 300 patients annually. Approximately 30 per cent of patients treated at the burn centre come from the Greater Toronto Area, and 70 per cent come from other areas of Ontario.We are equipped with a dedicated intensive care unit and operating room. We are home to the only tissue bank in Ontario that stores temporary skin to treat major burn injuries. We also care for patients with large and complex wounds. The Ross Tilley Burn Centre was the first burn centre in Canada and the second outside the United States to achieve American Burn Association Verification, which provides a true mark of distinction that a Burn Centre meets rigorous standards and provides high quality patient care from time of injury through rehabilitation.Our patient care team is made up of a group of highly skilled health-care professionals. This includes four burn surgeons, nurses, a nurse practitioner, physician assistants, a pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a rehabilitation physician (physiatrist), respiratory therapists, a dietitian, social worker, speech language pathologist, psychiatry, geriatric physician, critical care physicians and other staff.Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is a fully affiliated hospital of the University of Toronto with over 1,250 beds, of which 677 are dedicated to acute care. Sunnybrook includes Canada’s first and largest trauma program. Sunnybrook plays a leadership role in the Ontario health care system and in caring for its community through ten comprehensive programs: Tory Trauma; St. John’s Rehabilitation; Integrated Community; Holland Bone and Joint; Hurvitz Brain Sciences; Odette Cancer; DAN Women and Babies; Schulich Heart; Precision Diagnostics and Therapeutics, and Veterans. Sunnybrook’s four strategic directions for our include developing personalized and precise treatments, integrating sustainable models of care across the health system, improving quality and creating a better care experience; and, building high performing teams. Sunnybrook is also committed to high quality inter-professional education and is the home of one of the University’s four academies for undergraduate medical education in addition to providing postgraduate and fellowship training in virtually all disciplines.The Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is one of the fastest growing hospital-based research enterprises in Canada with well-established programs in basic and applied research, conducting $100 million in research each year. Sunnybrook and SRI jointly develop innovations that improve care for the more than one million patients treated annually, and its passionate faculty provides rewarding educational experiences for more than 2,000 students each year.Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto are strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcome applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.Income for clinical and academic activities will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and based upon a range of components, including fee-for-service billings and a specific stipend for the role of Medical Director, which is estimated at approximately 0.3 full-time equivalent (approximately 1.5 days per week).Please contact Dr. Rob Fowler [ ] for further information. For those who wish to apply, please submit a letter of intent, the name of three referees and an updated curriculum vitae to Ms. Nadine Thompson [ ] at Sunnybrook Hospital.For more information about the University of Toronto academic environment, please visit the respective home pages for Departments of , and in the .All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Applications are requested to be submitted by October 31, 2024. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity and to build a career in an innovative and dynamic organization, submit your resume by clicking on Apply Now below.Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodation for disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please indicate this in your cover letter.Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is strongly committed to inclusion and diversity within its community and welcomes all applicants including but not limited to: visible minorities, all religions and ethnicities, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
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Location
Toronto, ON
Job date
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:04:07 GMT
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