The Penn State College of Medicine (PSCOM) and Penn State Health (PSH) – Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (MSHMC) are seeking an accomplished, collaborative academic physician leader and dedicated educator to further build upon a strong research portfolio and serve as the Chair of the Department of Radiology. The Chair will have the opportunity to advance the department across all four mission areas (Clinical, Education, Research, and Outreach), broaden its impact on the health of the communities throughout Central Pennsylvania, and build upon the school’s national and international impact in education and research programs within Penn State University, PSCOM, and PSH.
For over 50 years, PSCOM and MSHMC have been serving as the only university medical school and medical center in central Pennsylvania. With a history of innovative research, they have played a prominent role in driving scientific discovery and meeting the region’s needs for tertiary and quaternary care, and have served as one of the region’s largest employers and economic drivers. Amid a rapidly changing health care landscape, PSH has evolved into a comprehensive university health system encompassing primary, specialty, and acute care locations across the region. Among its core goals is to ensure patients receive high-quality, accessible, cost-effective care, close to where they live.
Reporting to the Dean of the College of Medicine, the Chair will lead, build, and sustain a strong academic department. Overseeing radiology services at the health system level, the Chair will ensure effective, efficient clinical operations in partnership with the Chief Clinical Officer across tertiary hospitals, community-based facilities, ancillary sites, and a clinically integrated network. In addition to managing radiology services across complex health systems, the Chair will successfully balance the demands of achieving academic rigor, clinical quality, operational experience, and excellence, as well as system-wide alignment.
Leading the Department of Radiology, the next Chair will be a nationally recognized physician leader and scholar in radiology with a proven commitment to research and innovation, clinical care, medical education and training, and community engagement. They will have the knowledge and ability to effectively inspire, mentor, and lead physicians, researchers, and educators while embracing the values of diversity and belonging, quality, financial sustainability, and the wellness of faculty, staff, and trainees. The successful candidate will have experience partnering with key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including senior leadership.
In addition to bringing a strong track record of leadership and mentorship of diverse faculty at all stages of career development, the successful candidate will also demonstrate an understanding of sponsored research and aim to expand the department’s research portfolio. Candidates must have the leadership experience required to oversee a complex, multi-site, and busy clinical department across PSH. The successful candidate will have integrity, intellect, the ability to work collaboratively with numerous stakeholders, a core value of inclusive and equitable leadership, and a vision of how a modern academic department of radiology thrives in the current health care landscape.
Over the past several years, PSH has meaningfully expanded its hospital network by adding both newly built and newly integrated community facilities, strengthening its regional footprint and integrated care model. This growth includes St. Joseph Regional Health Network joining PSH in 2015 and the opening of PSH Hampden Medical Center in 2021 and PSH Lancaster Medical Center in 2022—two modern acute care hospitals designed to bring high-quality inpatient and specialty services closer to growing communities outside Hershey—as well as the integration of Holy Spirit Medical Center in 2020, which significantly expanded access across the West Shore and surrounding counties. More recently, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute became fully part of PSH in 2023, deepening the system’s behavioral health capabilities, and in 2026, the system assumed full ownership of the Surgery Center of Lancaster, reflecting continued expansion into outpatient and ambulatory care. Together, these additions underscore PSH’s deliberate strategy to extend academic-quality care across diverse community settings while operating as a unified, integrated health system.
Leading within a five-hospital network spanning academic and community settings, the Chair will model and advance a vision of systemness—bridging and standardizing the delivery of clinical care, research, and education across an increasingly unified medical group and a growing health system. This is an outstanding opportunity for a dynamic academic leader, alongside a cohort of collaborative and innovative chairs and a newly-appointed CEO of PSH, to actively engage and participate in further developing a regional system of care delivery during a period of strategic renewal and forward progress.
The successful candidate for this role will be a scholar and systems thinker—someone curious about discovery and new ways to lead as a physician in an integrated academic health system, and energized by the opportunity to influence care at scale. As an important part of its governance structure, PSCOM and PSH have strategically implemented a model of physician leadership for its health system through which the Chair will play a central role in shaping not only the department’s future but also the broader trajectory of the organization. For a leader who values collaboration, innovation, and purpose-driven change, this is an opportunity to build on a strong foundation and help define what academic radiology can look like in a modern, integrated health system.
APPLICATIONS, INQUIRIES, AND NOMINATIONS
Penn State Health has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist the Search Committee in identifying and reviewing candidates. Applications, inquiries, and nominations may be submitted online:
https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/pennsylvania-state-university-college-medicine/chair-radiology
Patricia Hastie, Partner
Tiffany Weber, Managing Associate
Sarah Sweeney, Senior Search Coordinator
Isaacson, Miller
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