Responsibilities
- Provide strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership for obstetric anesthesia services
- Partner closely with obstetric and hospital leadership to advance safety, quality, and operational excellence
- Support education and team development within the labor and delivery environment
- Promote best practices for high-risk obstetrics, including complex placental pathologies
- Support an educational culture of clinical excellence, safety, and mentorship
- Participate in and help lead institutional quality initiatives, including OBQI Committee, Perinatal Quality Committee, Surgical Quality Council
- Contribute to development and implementation of policies, procedures, and standards
- Engage in QVR and RCA processes to drive continuous improvement
- Maintain a close partnership with the OB Director of Quality & Safety
- Provide operational and administrative oversight for obstetric anesthesia
- Collaborate with OB leadership and hospital administrators on service line goals, staffing, and performance
Requirements
- Accomplished, collaborative physician leader
- Leadership experience in obstetric anesthesiology
- Ability to provide strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership
- Experience in high-acuity, high-throughput obstetric anesthesia practice
- Commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence
- Experience supporting education and team development
- Experience with high-risk obstetrics and complex placental pathologies
Nice to Have
- Physician leader for a major service line
- Affiliation or collaboration with academic institutions
- Experience with institutional quality initiatives (e.g., OBQI, Perinatal Quality, Surgical Quality Council)
- Experience in policy and procedure development
- Experience in QVR and RCA processes
Additional Information
- Approximately 8,000 deliveries annually at Swedish Medical Center
- Swedish is a quaternary referral center offering full spectrum of maternal care
- On-site Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) department
- High-volume Placenta Accreta Spectrum service
- Established OB/Gyn residency program
- Rotating anesthesia residents from University of Washington and Virginia Mason Medical Center
