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Responsibilities:
-Clinical ethics consultation service: 18-20 on-call weeks including both 24/7 primary and daytime-only call responsibilities.
-Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
-Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records and contribute to QI/QA efforts.
-Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
-Participate in ongoing clinical ethics programming, including ethics education, professional development of caregivers, and community outreach.
-Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
-Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
-Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.

The successful candidate will:
-Provide high-quality ethics consultation services, including high complexity cases on a high-volume team-based service.
-Facilitate and lead meetings, utilize appropriate techniques for conflict engagement, and build consensus.
-Collaborate professionally with members of multidisciplinary clinical teams and leadership, engaging multiple points of view and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
-Contribute to the Center’s mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
-Demonstrate commitment to professional growth and development.
-Demonstrate orientation toward relationship-centered collaboration, teambuilding, and patient-centered care, and the ability to work collaboratively and inclusively to inspire and motivate others.
-Practice consistently with the characteristics central to Cleveland Clinic and the Center for Bioethics’ values: honesty, integrity, humility, courage, tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, balanced judgment and demeanor, accountability, and good stewardship of resources.

The Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is responsible for clinical ethics services at several affiliated hospitals, and so preference will also be given to applicants with experience in hospital ethics processes, including consultation, policy creation, review, and education. To build on the Institute’s three decades of work in health information technology, the ideal candidate will expertise in biomedical informatics, including artificial intelligence, and familiarity with academic medical center operations, including clinical, research and public health informatics. Areas of particular interest may include the development and use of artificial intelligence techniques in medical education, healthcare delivery, health-related research, and quality improvement activities; ethical issues related to the use and design of digital health applications, including eHealth tools such as patient portals; and the ethical, legal and social implications of genomic medicine, including bioinformatics, and public health informatics or digital epidemiology.

The successful candidate should have evidence of leadership experience, national recognition as a scholar and researcher in bioethics, with an exemplary record of funded research and publication in bioethics with experience in medical education and the role of clinical, research and public health ethics and the humanities in the medical curriculum. Candidates must have an M.D., Ph.D., MD/Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree and a record commensurate with appointment at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor. They should also have documented experience of cross-disciplinary collaboration, as the Institute’s director is expected to work with colleagues from business, law, engineering and other schools, and with community and government partners.