Job Description Opportunity
Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as the next Department of Radiation Oncology Chair. The chair will fill a key executive role at nationally-ranked Cedars-Sinai. This is an outstanding opportunity for an accomplished clinical leader to oversee innovation and the highest quality clinical care across Cedars-Sinai. The chair will direct all facets of the department, ensuring that the overall strategic vision and direction aligns with the broader Cedars-Sinai mission.
The chair will achieve success by providing expert leadership in the following areas:
• Strategic, operational, and fiscal oversight • Managing all aspects of the department, including administrative, clinical, research, and educational initiatives • Managing a complex departmental budget, optimizing throughput at satellite locations, and ensuring revenue growth through efficient resource utilization and business development • Clinical innovation and subspecialized expertise • Patient care and quality improvement • Research distinction and extramural funding • Education and training • Faculty mentorship and development • Multidisciplinary collaboration
Cedars-Sinai Radiation Oncology
As a cornerstone of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, the Department of Radiation Oncology is a hub of clinical innovation and compassionate care in the heart of Los Angeles. The department serves a diverse patient population, offering the Chair an opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary team of world-renowned radiation oncologists, physicists, and researchers.
The incoming Chair will assume leadership of a department with a thriving culture characterized by clinical excellence and multidisciplinary collaboration. Faculty work in close partnership with surgical and medical oncology colleagues to provide excellent integrated care.
Subspecialized Expertise
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai, which includes 28 faculty and 117 staff, is recognized for its high-volume, academic-driven approach, holding the prestigious APEx accreditation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Building on a foundation of ultra-precise technology and site-specific clinical mastery, our new chair will identify areas of clinical excellence and implement cutting-edge services and technologies.
Innovation and Research
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai is committed to redefining the standard of care through the development of next-generation imaging and therapeutic modalities. By integrating cutting-edge research across our Divisions of Medical Physics and Radiation Biology, we aim to enhance therapeutic efficacy while minimizing off-target toxicity.
Our program leverages AI-driven computational models and precision medicine frameworks to translate laboratory discoveries into investigator-initiated clinical trials, ensuring that advanced, site-specific therapies are delivered with unprecedented accuracy and biological optimized dosing.
For Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), the department successfully enrolled 37 patients into clinical protocols led by Radiation Oncology Principal Investigators. The program maintains an active portfolio of investigator-initiated and cooperative group trials, spanning diverse disease sites including genitourinary (GU), head and neck, lymphoma, and myeloma.
Research efforts remain centered on the advancement of biomarker-driven precision medicine and therapeutic de-intensification strategies aimed at optimizing patient survival and quality of life.
The department has an excellent track record of external funding and academic productivity. Reflecting a robust commitment to academic dissemination, we aim to continue our upward trajectory in research quality and output.
Our FY25 academic accomplishments include:
• Federal Award Funding: $2,524,117 • Total Award Funding: $3,012,117 • 42 total publications • 21 publications appearing in journals with an Impact Factor (IF) greater than 10 • Faculty have achieved consistent placement in top-tier medical literature, including multiple contributions to the Journal of Clinical Oncology
Quality
The Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai upholds a rigorous commitment to patient safety and therapeutic excellence, underscored by its prestigious APEx (Accreditation Program for Excellence) designation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
This accreditation validates the department's adherence to over 200 stringent quality standards, encompassing exhaustive staff training, rigorous equipment maintenance, and standardized clinical documentation.
To operationalize a proactive culture of safety, the department has implemented more than 60 specialized policies designed to ensure that every patient receives a personalized, evidence-based treatment plan verified through multidisciplinary peer-review protocols.
By integrating sophisticated image-guided technologies and continuous real-time monitoring, the clinical team-comprising radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and therapists-ensures the precise delivery of radiation while meticulously sparing adjacent healthy tissue.
Locations
Main Campus Capital Enhancements:
A significant expansion of the main campus is scheduled for completion in 2028, which will introduce a fourth treatment vault, a new linear accelerator, and an MR simulator. This expansion further includes augmented examination facilities and a dedicated inpatient holding suite to enhance clinical workflow.
Throughput Optimization (Tarzana):
The Tarzana site is currently under evaluation for expansion to mitigate throughput bottlenecks following a substantial increase in patient volume, which rose from approximately 15 daily encounters in 2021 to over 40 per day in 2025.
Regional Integration (Huntington Hospital):
The modernization program at Huntington Hospital involves the planned implementation of a Varian TrueBeam platform, with a projected clinical go-live date in 2026.
The Cedars-Sinai Health System
The Cedars-Sinai Health System includes the nationally recognized Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai) and its affiliated physician network, major programs in physician and health professions education, and the highly regarded Burns and Allen Medical Research Institute.
The Cedars-Sinai Health System also includes the Marina del Rey Hospital; Torrance Memorial Medical Center and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Torrance and the beach cities of Los Angeles; and Huntington Health and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.
Through the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Cedars-Sinai Health System is also a joint venture partner with Select Medical in the California Rehabilitation Institute, and Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California.
Cedars-Sinai Mission Statement
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.
We deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education
We prioritize high-quality care for all with equity and compassion
We transform biomedical discoveries and innovations for better health
We educate tomorrow's physicians, nurses, researchers, and healthcare professionals
Our mission is founded in the Judaic tradition, which inspires our devotion to the art and science of healing.
Vision
Trusted and respected worldwide, Cedars-Sinai will advance health and healthcare in Los Angeles and beyond.
To achieve this vision, Cedars-Sinai will:
• Demonstrate superior quality, equity, safety, affordability, and patient experience across the care continuum • Serve populations in this service area through enhanced ambulatory, primary and specialty care networks • Strengthen and advance excellence in biomedical research and graduate academic and professional education programs • Align with the best physicians and providers through collaborative care teams and pluralistic physician relationship models • Position Cedars-Sinai as the preferred healthcare employer in the Los Angeles region and among the most preferred in the nation • Advance the health status of the communities through health equity initiatives • Innovate and integrate the use of emerging digital and medical technologies • Ensure overall growth, financial performance and philanthropy to advance the mission and vision of the institution
Values
In the pursuit of our vision, the actions of leadership, staff and other physicians will be guided by the following values:
• Excellence • Integrity • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion • Respect • Compassion • Teamwork • Innovation • Accessibility • Affordability • Stewardship
Nationally Recognized High-Quality Care Delivery
Detailed attention to quality of patient care, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, patient satisfaction and a high number of preventive health screenings are hallmarks of Cedars-Sinai.
Clinical programs range from primary care to specialized treatments for rare, complex and advanced illnesses.
In addition, Cedars-Sinai serves the community through its Medical Network and through a variety of programs that improve the health of the most vulnerable residents of Los Angeles.
Cedars-Sinai has been named to the Honor Roll for the 10th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2025-26 rankings.
Cedars-Sinai ranked in the top ten nationally in six specialties: Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (#2); Orthopaedics (#5); Pulmonology and Lung Surgery (#5); Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Surgery (#6); Obstetrics and Gynecology (#8, tied), Diabetes and Endocrinology (#9).
Three specialties were also #1 in California: Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, and Orthopedics.
In 2025, Cedars-Sinai received its eight consecutive five-star rating in the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings by CMS, the highest distinction by the federal agency.
Of the more than 2,891 U.S. hospitals rated, only about 10% earned five stars.
Cedars-Sinai has received the National Research Corporation's Consumer Choice Award twenty years in a row for providing the highest quality medical care in Los Angeles and has the longest-running Magnet Designation for Nursing Excellence in California.
Cedars-Sinai continues to excel in patient experience, receiving top scores in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, exceeding both the national and California averages for both the "overall rating" questions and the "would recommend" question.
Breakthrough Research Discovery
A core value to Cedars-Sinai's mission, the institution's laboratories and clinics generate ideas, therapies, devices and systems that contribute to biomedical progress around the world.
More than 2,000 current research projects explore the full
Cedars Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the United States, and it is the largest private academic medical center in the Western United States. The Cedars Sinai main campus, which encompasses nearly 24 acres, is located at the point where the cities of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood meet. Cedars Sinai has been recognized annually by U.S. News & World Report’s top 10 best hospitals in the U.S. The institution most recently placed No. 7 among a select group of 20 Honor Roll hospitals and ranked nationally in a dozen specialties. In addition, Cedars Sinai ranked No. 3 in California and No. 2 in the Los Angeles metro area.
Within Cedars Sinai, the Institute for Research on Health Aging conducts multi-disciplinary research that prioritizes the prevention of cardiovascular disease, neurocognitive disease, and cancer. Our focus is on translating new research discoveries into pragmatic interventions aimed at promoting healthy aging across diverse populations. Our approach involves human physiology, cohort, and clinical trial studies and our team includes established experts in population, clinical, translational, basic, and data science.