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Job description
Overview
Dartmouth Health Cheshire Medical Center is seeking a collaborative, clinically credible physician leader to serve as Chief of Ophthalmology. This leader will guide ophthalmology services at Cheshire Medical Center, strengthen high-quality, patient-centered eye care for the Monadnock Region, and deepen alignment with the Ophthalmology Section at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the broader resources of Dartmouth Health.
Cheshire Medical Center is a nonprofit community medical center in Keene, New Hampshire, and a member of Dartmouth Health, the state's only academic health system. As Cheshire County's only hospital and a major Monadnock Region care hub, Cheshire provides broad primary, specialty, surgical, emergency, inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, population health, and chronic disease management services.
Vision Care at Cheshire offers accessible diagnostic, preventive, medical, optical, and surgical eye care close to home, with coordinated access to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine, and Dartmouth Health subspecialty expertise, advanced procedures, clinical trials, residency education, and academic infrastructure.
Within a triad leadership model, the Chief of Ophthalmology will provide physician leadership for ophthalmology at Cheshire, including clinical quality, access, care coordination, provider engagement, operational performance, patient experience, and alignment with Dartmouth Health standards and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Ophthalmology priorities.
The successful Chief of Ophthalmology will be a visible, approachable, team-oriented physician leader with an active clinical presence and credibility with providers, staff, patients, and community partners. This leader will promote accountability, collaboration, quality, service, and continuous improvement while expanding access, strengthening referral relationships, supporting recruitment and retention, improving clinic, diagnostic, surgical, and optical workflows, advancing care transitions, and ensuring patients benefit from local expertise and Dartmouth Health's advanced specialty resources.
Qualified candidates will possess an M.D. or D.O. from an accredited medical school, completion of an ACGME-accredited Ophthalmology residency, and board certification. The ideal candidate will bring clinical excellence, sound judgment, operational discipline, strong communication skills, and commitment to advancing community-based ophthalmology within an integrated academic health system.
All applications, nominations, and inquiries are invited. Please direct communications to the search consultants assisting Dartmouth Health Cheshire Medical Center, preferably via email: or
Worksite address
keene, NH, 03431, US
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