Our Academic Leadership Practice

Practice Leader:  Patti Hoffmeir

With 30 years of experience performing quality, high-level executive search assignments for healthcare institutions, Tyler & Company has gained the reputation of being one of the nation’s most successful search firms serving academic medicine. Recruiting the right highly qualified professionals to lead academic medical centers is the key to an organization’s success, especially with today’s quickly changing world of medicine. Tyler & Company excels in recruiting forward-thinking leaders who believe in high-tech, high-touch medicine, and who understand the financial as well as business and operational aspects of leading a successful institution in competitive times.

Whether conducting senior-level searches for leadership positions within medical schools, academic medical centers, community teaching hospitals, research institutes or in the life sciences, our goal is to find strong, talented candidates who can keep up with the needs of the ever-evolving healthcare and life sciences fields.

 

To recruit department chairs and other important clinical leaders, some top-tier institutions may still use the familiar nomination methodology to successfully fill open positions, but the search process is time consuming and labor intensive for search committee members. After decades of experience perfecting the search process, Tyler & Company has streamlined it. The thoroughness of our system, including interviewing and candidate referencing, ensures the search committee and the dean that the hiring decision made is the right choice, and the candidate’s leadership is a fit with the institution’s culture.  

 

As the need for talented professionals and those with specialized skills continues to escalate with increased competition, the days of relying on nomination methodology and promoting from within are becoming less effective. Tyler & Company has the knowledge of academic medicine and the dedication to client success necessary to recruit a wide variety of leaders in all facets of medical education and healthcare delivery nationwide. 

Our experience includes searches for the following positions:

Chairs, Division Chiefs and Medical Directors of Specific Departments

  • Chair, Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Chair, Emergency Medicine
  • Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Chair, Pediatrics
  • Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Chair, Radiology
  • Chair, Surgery
  • Chief of Medicine
  • Director, Brain Injury Services
  • Director, Center of Excellence in GI Malignancy
  • Director, Hematology/Oncology
  • Director, NCI-designated Cancer Center
  • Division Chief, Bariatric Surgery
  • Division Chief, Cardiology
  • Division Chief, Oncology
  • Radiologist-in-Chief
  • Service Line Medical Director

Clinical and Patient Care Management

  • Assistant Vice President, Patient Care Services
  • Chief Nurse Executive
  • Chief Nursing Officer
  • Dean, School of Nursing
  • Director, Critical Care Nursing
  • Senior Vice President, Nursing

Administrative Directors of Departments or Service Lines

  • Administrative Director, Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
  • Administrative Director, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Administrative Director of Operations, Cardiovascular Service Line

Finance and Operations

  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Human Resources Officer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Director, Biomedical Engineering
  • Director, Business Development
  • Director, Corporate Compliance and Privacy
  • Director, Internal Audit
  • Vice President, Operations
  • Director, Operations and Ambulatory Services
  • Director, Patient Accounts
  • Director, Performance Improvement and Regulatory Affairs
  • Vice President, Quality
  • Director, Quality and Clinical Systems Improvement
  • Director, Revenue Cycle Services
  • Director, Strategic Planning

Research

  • Associate Director of Health Operations, Health Research Institute
  • Chief Research Officer/Executive Director, Research Institute
  • Executive Director, Heart Institute

Physician Services

  • CEO, Faculty Practice Plan
  • Director, Medical Education
  • Executive Director, Multi-specialty Physician Practice