Program Chief and Medical Director, Neurosciences/MSK Program
Position
Program Chief and Medical Director, Neurosciences/MSK ProgramDescription
The Program Chief and Medical Director (Chief), together with the Clinical Program Director, will be responsible for the leadership of the Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal (Neuro/MSK) Program, which brings together Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedic Surgery. This Program plays a critical role in advancing THP’s mission of “a new kind of health care for a healthier community” by delivering high-quality, specialized and high-volume services across the continuum of care for patients with neuro/MSK needs.
The Neuro/MSK Program delivers both high-volume community-based services and specialized regional care in stroke, spine, and neurosurgery across all three THP sites. The Program supports a large and complex platform of inpatient and ambulatory services, requiring strong clinical governance, consistent standards, and integrated models of care that enable safe, timely access and excellent patient outcomes.
The successful candidate will help design, implement, evaluate and scale human-centred, evidence-informed solutions that leverage AI, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches to improve health outcomes and enable THP’s strategy. As the most senior Professional Staff leader for the Program, the Chief will set and communicate a clear, unifying vision that strengthens program identity and coherence across divisions and sites. The Chief will champion best practices and continuous quality improvement across the full continuum of Neuro/MSK care, including acute, ambulatory, sub-acute, rehabilitation, and community transitions, ensuring that models of care remain contemporary, evidence-informed, and aligned with evolving system realities.
Key leadership priorities for the Chief and Medical Director, Neuro/MSK Program, will be to:
- Develop and implement a unified vision that advances alignment across Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedic Surgery, while strengthening a cohesive program identity across all three THP sites.
- Advance best practices and continuous quality improvement across the full continuum of Neuro/MSK care, including acute, ambulatory, sub-acute, rehabilitation, and community transitions, to improve outcomes, experience, and access.
- Strengthen clinical integration, care pathways, and transitions across services and settings to improve navigation, continuity, and timely access for patients with complex neurosciences and musculoskeletal needs.
- Provide forward-looking leadership as care delivery models expand beyond the hospital setting by shaping integrated approaches that strengthen quality, oversight, and continuity across settings, and support sustainable access for patients and families.
- Support and expand THP’s academic mandate by strengthening structured teaching and training opportunities, fostering interprofessional learning, and advancing a coordinated approach to research priorities and academic engagement.
- Foster a supportive, team-oriented culture that emphasizes communication, inclusivity, and shared accountability, while modelling THP’s values of compassion, excellence, and courage.
Experience Required
The successful candidate will be an experienced, inclusive, and visionary leader with experience in medical leadership, clinical practice, strategy, and operations. Recognized as an effective change leader, you have demonstrated your commitment to improving service and operations in a clinical setting as well as participating in broader systems-level change. You are a physician licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or eligible for licensure, with an academic appointment at the University of Toronto or eligibility for such appointment. Candidates with experience in both hospital and community settings will be considered an asset.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman or Heather Spiegel, at resumes@promeus.ca.
Employer
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is the largest academically affiliated community-based hospital network in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, and the Queensway Health Centre, THP serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities. THP is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. THP is committed to meaningfully advancing health systems and population health research and innovation and is home to the Institute for Better Health, THP’s research institute. THP currently operates 1,457 budgeted beds and employs 11, 322, staff and 1,503professional staff (physicians, midwives, dentists). Its annual operating budget is approximately $1.59 billion.
THP’s vision is to create a new kind of health care for a healthier community. Guided by its values of compassion, excellence, and courage, THP’s Strategic Plan envisions a new approach to health – as a learning health system, working in partnership to improve community population health and create an inter-connected system that is organized around the patient, both inside the hospital and beyond its walls, by balancing quality, access, and sustainability. Our strategic goal at THP is to advance digitally enabled care, using community insight, advanced analytics and responsible, human-centred AI to create a fully integrated, seamless health system that wraps care around each person.
Note to Applicants
If you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code to consider this opportunity.
Trillium Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing, based on our values of compassion, excellence and courage. To be Better Together, we commit to fostering a respectful workplace culture that promotes a safe and supportive environment for everyone who provides care, supports caregiving, receives care or visits the hospital.
In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.
Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada. We would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Trillium Health Partners is recognized under the French Language Services Act.
As a condition of employment, we require all staff to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, in addition to other vaccinations required by the Public Hospitals Act.