Cortica Inc Looking for Area Medical Director at Glendale, California Full Time

We are seeking a full-time physician to join our team as the Area Medical Director (Area II, Los Angeles and Marin, East Bay)

As the AMD, you will have the opportunity to work hand in hand with administrative leaders to support your sites’ medical staff and family wellness counselors in their delivery of care. This includes support for interviewing candidates, supervising onboarding, training, and clinical care, career mentorship, and participation in clinic team building.

This position offers significant opportunities to work closely with an elite administrative team that includes healthcare executives that have a track record of success in starting and growing companies in diverse healthcare industries. The role also provides physicians with the opportunity to broaden their clinical knowledge across disciplines through collaboration with master practitioners across sensory, motor, communication, and behavior therapies. As our research program grows, physicians will have the opportunity to participate in designing and carrying out research protocols and publishing study results. This role can be performed at 80% to 100% of a full-time schedule.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Care

  • Player/Coach role:

    • Completes direct patient care and time for chart review, encounter documentation, and patient-care related activities done on the same day as a billed patient visit. *Patient care activities will be prorated based on number of direct reports.

  • People

    • Recruit new physicians and nurse practitioners

      • This includes interviewing following our rigorous screening process by Talent Acquisition and/or Executive teams.
      • Welcoming prospective physicians and/or nurse practitioners to visit your home site for direct patient care observation supporting orientation experience.

    • Quality

      • Supervision and onboarding of new physicians and nurse practitioners (site directors or others as needed) from date of hire to establishment of physician as site medical director at their permanent site

        • Ensuring new physicians and nurse practitioners complete established Medical Practitioner Training curriculum in timely manner
        • Establishing Cortica’s presence as a leader in neurodevelopmental care through business development, community outreach, and payer relations
        • Providing clinical support each week for each direct report

      • Participate and/or lead team meetings, program-building, supervision, mentorship, and employee engagement. Team meetings may include, not limited to:

        • NDM faculty meeting
        • Area weekly rounds
        • Site leadership meeting
        • Collaborative case conference
        • Area Medical team meeting (Site Medical Directors)

      • Results

        • Ability to lead, inspire and motivate area medical team to align and execute on the organization’s vision. and provide performance coaching as needed for individuals not meeting goals.
        • Develops a deep understanding of clinical and operational KPIs set for the medical program and executes to goal across all sites within your Area

          • Clinical metrics (whole child scorecard,)
          • Operational metrics (*ex.: NEV’s, RVU’s, research enrollment)

Role Requirements:

• Completed Medical School from an Accredited University.
• Completed a Residency or Fellowship in Child Neurology.
• Board-Certified or Board-Eligible in Child Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, or other related specialty.
• Currently possess an unrestricted in the corresponding states (California) medical license or have the ability to obtain one before the start date.
• Previous experience in a clinical leadership position preferred

Benefits:

Cortica cares deeply about each team member and their wellbeing! We strive to foster an outstanding employee experience and culture. We also provide a terrific benefits package. Full-time employees enjoy a variety of company subsidized medical and dental insurance options, 401K with company match and rapid vesting, Personal Time Off those increases based on tenure, paid holidays, company-paid life insurance, disability insurance options, tuition reimbursement for continuing education and professional development, employee referral bonus awards, and more.