Chief Medical Officer - Part Time - Hartford, CT

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior physician executive responsible for the clinical quality, safety, operational performance, and governance of the medical staff across Connecticut Children’s. The CMO reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the President of the Connecticut Children’s Specialty Group (CCSG) to ensure alignment across hospital and employed physician enterprise priorities.

The CMO works in close partnership with the Physician-in-Chief and Surgeon-in-Chief, ensuring coordinated leadership across all physician domains, including hospital-based, academic, and surgical services. This role requires strong collaboration and shared accountability across the executive physician leadership team to drive consistency in clinical standards, performance expectations, and care delivery.

The CMO ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered care, while aligning medical staff performance with organizational strategy. The role acts as the primary liaison between hospital administration and the medical staff, providing leadership across quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and medical staff governance, and ensuring integration of clinical excellence with operational execution.

The CMO owns hospital medical operations, including patient throughput, flow, and inpatient care delivery, and serves as the final escalation authority for physician behavior impacting operations and care delivery.

In close partnership with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Chief Quality Officer (CQO), and in alignment with executive physician leaders, the CMO is jointly accountable for clinical outcomes, while maintaining clear physician leadership authority over medical staff performance, credentialing, and peer review processes.