Job Description

Position Details

Title Division Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine Specific Title Associate/ Professor of Medicine Appointment Type Open Department IUSM - Medicine - General Internal Medicine Campus IU School of Medicine Indianapolis Position Summary

The Opportunity

The Department of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) seeks an accomplished academic physician leader to serve as the founding Chief of a new Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine. Two new divisions are being established through the strategic restructuring of the current Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, the second being the new ‘Division of Aging, Geriatric Medicine, and Palliative Care’. This restructuring is a deliberate investment in focused leadership intended to sustain and accelerate academic growth and excellence in the Department’s generalist and acute care missions.

The founding Chief will lead approximately 280 faculty members organized into three sections, each with its own strategic plan and identity, and will report directly to the Chair of the Department of Medicine. This is a rare opportunity to define, from the outset, the structure, culture, and strategic direction of one of the largest general medicine and hospital medicine enterprises in American academic medicine.

The Division:

An Overview of Sections and Research Centers

Division faculty have the opportunity to engage in the service, research, and education missions of the Department and IUSM. Faculty practice and teach across the full continuum of undergraduate and graduate medical education and hold impactful Departmental and School educational leadership roles, including the internal medicine residency program directorship, multiple Key Clinician Educator appointments, and clerkship and course leadership positions.

Research faculty maintain deep partnerships with various Research Centers including the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health Services Research at the Regenstrief Institute, the Center for Health Communication and Information at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, the IU Center for Biomedical Ethics, the Center for Global Health, and the Regenstrief Center for Health Equity Research at Eskenazi Health. Researchers have consistently secured close to $3M dollars in federal and non-federal funding annually over the last three years. Examples of current research include diabetes prevention, improving the care of individuals with rare diseases, implementation of survivorship care plans, and the deployment of large-scale decision aids to guide colorectal cancer screening.

• Section of Hospital Medicine (approximately 180 faculty members). The largest section in the Department, with faculty engaged in clinical care, scholarship and research, and teaching in hospital medicine care across IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center.
• Section of General Internal Medicine (approximately 15 faculty members). The academic home for general internal medicine, including research faculty in health services research, biomedical informatics, global health, health equity, and medical ethics, and faculty who hold key educational leadership roles across the Department of Medicine and IUSM.
• Section of Primary Care Internal Medicine (approximately 85 faculty members). Ambulatory internal medicine practice and general internal medicine care is an area of critical workforce need statewide and a stated development priority of the division’s faculty. Faculty provide general internal medicine and medicine-pediatrics care across IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center.

A retrospective of the Division’s activities in the academic year 2025-26 can be viewed here.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Medicine, the Division Chief provides academic, clinical, financial, and operational leadership for the division across all sites and sections. The Chief recruits, develops, and retains faculty; sets and executes the Division’s strategic plan in alignment with both the Department of Medicine 2026 to 2031 Strategic Plan and IUSM’s strategic priorities; oversees the division’s budget and clinical performance in partnership with our health system partners; advances the Division’s research, scholarship, and educational missions; and represents the Division within the Department, the School, our affiliated health systems, and nationally.

This leadership role is expected to reflect a mix of clinical practice and research or scholarly activity, configured with the Chair to fit the successful candidate’s academic profile.

Key Responsibilities

Vision and strategy

• Develop, in partnership with faculty, staff, and the Chair, the founding strategic plan for the Division and for each of its three sections.
• Build a Division leadership team with clear accountability and create visible leadership development opportunities for faculty across all three sections.
• Align the Division’s missions across sites, employer groups, and stakeholders, and represent the Division’s interests in health system planning.

Education

• Elevate the Division’s undergraduate and graduate medical education mission, in close partnership with the internal medicine residency, the medical student clerkship, and IUSM educational leadership.
• Support the academic advancement of clinician educators, including scholarship in teaching and education, and build the infrastructure that makes educational scholarship sustainable.

Clinical care and primary care growth

• Elevate academic internal medicine primary care, including recruitment, panel growth, practice model innovation, and the visibility of primary care within the Division and the health system.
• Partner with IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the VA on hospital medicine operations, quality and safety, throughput, care transitions, and value-based care.
• Evaluate clinical workloads and targets and work with clinical partners to align them with academic success and clinician wellbeing.

Research and scholarship

• Sustain and grow research and scholarship infrastructure across education, general medicine, and hospital medicine, including strategic recruitment.
• Foster scholarship collaborations across sections, Divisions, and Departments, supporting the Departmental goal of advancing IUSM’s national NIH funding position.

Faculty development and culture

• Create dedicated pathways and supportive infrastructure for faculty advancement in teaching, clinical excellence, leadership, quality improvement, scholarship, and research at every site.
• Advance clinician wellbeing as an explicit division priority.
• Develop a centralized, equitable process for academic recruitment across sites.
• Retain and grow collegiality, community, and connection among sections, divisions, and the school.

IU School of Medicine is committed to being a welcoming campus community and we seek candidates whose research, teaching, and community engagement efforts contribute to robust learning and working environments for all students, staff, and faculty. We invite individuals who will join us in our mission to improve health equity and well-being for all throughout the state of Indiana.

Vibrant City, Exceptional Suburbs

Indianapolis offers a thriving downtown and family-friendly suburbs. Many faculty choose to live in Carmel, Zionsville, and Fishers, which are frequently ranked among the best places to live nationally. The region combines top-rated public and private schools, affordable housing, and cultural amenities with a strong life sciences economy. For additional information on life in Indy, please visit click here.

• Comprehensive benefits package through Indiana University, one of the state’s largest employers.
• Dual-employment offers unique investment opportunities (401(k) plus 457(b) and 403(b), dual Roth contributions, HSA rollover).
• Tuition benefit for dependent students attending Indiana University.
• Relocation assistance and dual-career support.

The Institution and Research Centers

Indiana University School of Medicine is the largest medical school in the United States, with campuses distributed across Indiana. The Department of Medicine is among its largest departments and delivers care and education in partnership with IU Health, Eskenazi Health, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, with a longstanding research partnership with the Regenstrief Institute. Indianapolis offers a substantial metropolitan setting with a low cost of living, an established cultural and culinary scene, and easy access to the region.

Indiana University Health represents the largest network of clinicians in the state of Indiana with facilities across the state. Eskenazi health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County and the VA serves our country’s vets.

Spread across seven sites, hospitalist clinicians in our Division provide care to nearly a quarter million patients annually. Hospital medicine anchors the educational experience for our internal medicine inpatient rotations for medical students and residents. Hospital medicine faculty also serve as leaders in hospital operations, quality, and process improvement efforts.

Primary care similarly spans the state through our health partners and includes medicine-pediatrics trained clinicians. All Eskenazi Health primary care locations are designated Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and serve as a critical healthcare safety net and ensure access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare for underserved and vulnerable populations. The Roudebush Indianapolis downtown VA provides primary care to nearly 24,000 veterans. Our primary care sites also serve as the educational and training anchor for general medicine outpatient rotations.

Research centers affiliated with this Division currently include the Center for Health Services Research, the Center for Biomedical Informatics, the Center for Global Health, the Center for Bioethics, the Regenstrief Center for Health Equity Research at Eskenazi Health, and the Center for Health Information and Communication.

Basic Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Terminal degree or doctorate degree required, with board certification and continuous certification in internal medicine.
• Eligibility for medical licensure in the State of Indiana.
• Credentials commensurate with appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. Appointment may be on the tenure track or on a non-tenure track; tenure track eligibility is welcomed but not required.
• A record of clinical activity in general internal medicine, primary care internal medicine, or hospital medicine sufficient to sustain credibility with and insight into the working lives of clinicians and clinician educators.
• Progressive and successful operational leadership within a large, complex academic or health system environment, including demonstrable success developing and deploying a program across multiple sites and stakeholder groups and leading people through organizational change.
• A record of scholarship, which may be in education, general internal medicine, hospital medicine, health services research, or a related domain, sufficient to command the respect of a large and academically varied faculty.
• Demonstrated success in mentorship and in faculty or staff development.

Department Contact for Questions

Stephanie Wallace, Associate Director of Academic Administration

slw@iu.edu

Additional Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Leadership or sustained participation in formal faculty development programming.
• Regional or national leadership in societies relevant to general internal medicine, primary care, or hospital medicine, and/or editorial or peer review leadership in relevant journals.
• Extramural funding in undergraduate or graduate medical education, general internal medicine, hospital medicine, or health services research.
• Completion of formal training, coursework, or degrees that strengthen financial, communication, leadership, mentorship, or management skills, reflecting a personal commitment to lifelong learning.
• Experience leading in a multi-site environment that includes academic, safety net, and Veterans Affairs settings.

Attributes We Value

Division faculty and staff were surveyed during the design of this position. They asked for a leader characterized by empathy, genuine listening, a collaborative approach, respect, problem solving skills, flexibility, and approachability, and for communication and presentation skills that both inspire the team and enable effective advocacy on its behalf.

Special Instructions

Application Process

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter of interest describing their vision for academic general internal medicine, primary care, and hospital medicine, and their leadership philosophy. Finalists will present a seminar on their assessment of the way forward for academic general internal medicine and will participate in panel conversations with faculty and staff from across the division.

Priority Application Review Deadline Expected Start Date Posting Number IUSM-02531-2026