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ChristianaCare
Newark, Delaware

Physician Executive, Heart & Vascular Service Line Leader

HealthcareNo callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$710k-$1262k

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Job Description

ChristianaCare seeks an accomplished physician executive to serve as its next Physician Executive, Heart & Vascular Service Line Leader, providing strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership for the prestigious Center for Heart & Vascular Health.

Reporting to the Chief Physician Executive, this leader will guide the vision, growth, and performance of an integrated cardiovascular service line across the continuum of care. Working in close partnership with operational and executive leadership, the Physician Executive will advance clinical excellence, physician engagement, innovation, research, quality, patient experience, and sustainable growth while strengthening ChristianaCare’s position as a leader in heart and vascular care.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategic direction and continued development of ChristianaCare’s heart and vascular service line.
  • Drive growth, integration, access, and market differentiation across cardiovascular services.
  • Advance clinical quality, patient safety, operational performance, and value-based care initiatives.
  • Partner within a dyad leadership model to align clinical, operational, and financial priorities.

Foster physician engagement, accountability, leadership development, and alignment across employed and community-based physicians.

Champion innovation, new technologies, research, and academic initiatives, including medical education and fellowship development.

Build collaborative relationships with physicians, administrators, academic partners, and external stakeholders to advance cardiovascular care.

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will be a highly respected physician leader with significant experience leading cardiovascular programs, service lines, or physician organizations within a large health system, academic medical center, or integrated cardiovascular enterprise.

Candidates Should Possess

  • An MD or DO degree and board certification in a cardiovascular specialty.
  • A distinguished record of clinical excellence and physician leadership.
  • Experience driving strategic growth, physician alignment, clinical integration, and performance improvement.
  • Strong relationship-building, communication, and consensus-building skills.
  • Experience supporting academic medicine, research, and physician education.
  • MBA, MHA, or comparable leadership training preferred.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a visionary leader to shape the future of cardiovascular care within one of the nation's most respected health systems.

To express interest or learn more about this opportunity, please contact ChristianaCareHeartandVascular@SpencerStuart.com

$709,800 - $1,261,600

The above compensation range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting for full-time hours in the respective specialty.

The actual compensation within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation the fair market value for physician services in the relevant specialty and the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, credentials, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.

The compensation range listed may encompass various forms of applicable compensation for this position, including, but not limited to, productivity incentives, value-based incentives and other ancillary forms of compensation dependent upon operational factors such as hours worked, call coverage and other factors.

ChristianaCare will offer compensation at an appropriate point within the above range or, less frequently, may offer a level of compensation outside the listed range as warranted by the circumstances.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

  • Post End Date
  • Jun 30, 2027

EEO Posting Statement

ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit careers.christianacare.org

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree with board certification in a cardiovascular specialty and possess significant experience leading cardiovascular programs within a large health system. A distinguished record of clinical leadership and the ability to build collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders are essential.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Strategic leadershipCardiovascular service line managementChange managementFinancial managementTeam leadershipStrategic planning

Healthcare Professional Career Context

Of the 50 active healthcare listings this role was benchmarked against, 16% are remote, 74% have no call, 46% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Delaware is 99.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$986k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $988k in an average-cost state. 63.5% of Delaware clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the healthcare market look like in Delaware?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$710k–$1262khealthcare median $315k (middle half $269k–$413k)70 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$988k in purchasing powerDelaware index 99.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
healthcare listings in Delaware7 active2,060 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 16% remote · 74% no call · 46% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
healthcare pay trend+11.3% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
ChristianaCare#1 of 13 for payTop Employers work-life index
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, Top Employers work-life index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician Executive, Heart & Vascular Service Line Leader at ChristianaCare a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all healthcare professional listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

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CME allowance
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Relocation assistance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

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Listing-based score
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About ChristianaCare

Hospitals and Health Care
Newark, Delaware
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Employee Assistance Program

Living in Newark

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$325k≈ 0.5× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,036/mo≈ 3% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 6.6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.