Executive Director, Clinical Institute of Behavioral Health

Position Overview

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center seeks a nationally recognized physician leader to serve as Executive Director of the Clinical Institute of Behavioral Health. This enterprise-level role is responsible for defining and executing the strategic vision, clinical excellence, academic advancement, operational performance, and growth of behavioral health services across the Cedars-Sinai Health System.

The Executive Director will lead the development of a comprehensive, integrated behavioral health platform spanning inpatient, ambulatory, emergency, consultative, and virtual care settings, ensuring consistent standards of quality, safety, access, and patient experience across all sites.

Reporting Structure

This role operates within a matrixed executive structure, reporting to:

• Executive Vice President for Medicine and Health Sciences / Dean (academic & research)
• Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs / Chief Medical Officer (clinical quality)
• Executive Vice President, Hospital Operations / Chief Operating Officer (hospital operations)
• Executive Vice President, Medical Network (ambulatory operations)

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Leadership

• Provide executive oversight for all clinical, academic, and operational aspects of the behavioral health service line
• Lead transformation into a unified, system-wide behavioral health enterprise
• Serve as primary liaison to executive leadership, medical staff, and external stakeholders
• Drive policy development, system-wide care models, and large-scale performance improvement initiatives

Strategic Growth & Program Development

• Define and implement a multi-year strategic roadmap for behavioral health services
• Expand a regional and nationally recognized behavioral health network
• Standardize care pathways and operating models across the system
• Lead growth through partnerships, affiliations, joint ventures, and digital health innovation

Clinical Quality & Workforce

• Maintain accountability for clinical quality, safety, and patient

Experience

• Oversee medical staff governance, credentialing, and performance
• Lead recruitment, development, and retention of top-tier behavioral health clinicians
• Establish clear performance metrics and accountability frameworks

Academic & Education Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight for residency, fellowship, and interprofessional training programs
• Partner with Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University to expand workforce pipelines
• Ensure national distinction and accreditation excellence in training programs

Research Enterprise (In close collaboration with academic Chair)

• Set strategic direction for a robust behavioral health research portfolio
• Expand funding through federal, industry, and philanthropic sources
• Promote interdisciplinary and translational research aligned with institutional priorities

Financial & Operational Management

• Maintain full accountability for financial performance and long-term sustainability
• Optimize resource allocation, workforce models, and operational efficiency
• Lead capital planning, infrastructure strategy, and philanthropic initiatives
• Drive integration across inpatient, ambulatory, and virtual care platforms

Organizational Environment

Cedars-Sinai is a nationally recognized academic health system known for:

• High-value, patient-centered care and top-tier clinical outcomes
• Leadership in research, innovation, and translational medicine
• A growing integrated network across inpatient, ambulatory, and virtual care settings

Physicians and leaders are expected to uphold the highest standards of clinical excellence while advancing Cedars-Sinai’s mission as a regional and national leader in healthcare delivery, education, and discovery.

The Cedars-Sinai Health System

The Cedars-Sinai Health System includes the nationally recognized Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai) and its affiliated physician network, major programs in physician and health professions education and the highly regarded Burns and Allen Medical Research Institute.

The Cedars-Sinai Health System also includes the Marina del Rey Hospital; Torrance Memorial Medical Center and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Torrance and the beach cities of Los Angeles; and Huntington Health and its affiliated physician network, the leading healthcare organization serving Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.

Through the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Cedars-Sinai Health System is also a joint venture partner with Select Medical in the California Rehabilitation Institute, and Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California.

Cedars-Sinai Mission Statement

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.

• We deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and

education

• We prioritize high-quality care for all with equity and compassion
• We transform biomedical discoveries and innovations for better health

• We educate tomorrow’s physicians, nurses, researchers, and healthcare professionals

Our mission is founded in the Judaic tradition, which inspires our devotion to the art and science of healing.

Vision

Trusted and respected worldwide, Cedars-Sinai will advance health and healthcare in Los Angeles and beyond.

To Achieve This Vision, Cedars-Sinai Will

• Demonstrate superior quality, equity, safety, affordability, and patient experience across the care continuum.

• Serve populations in this service area through enhanced ambulatory, primary and specialty care networks.

• Strengthen and advance excellence in biomedical research and graduate academic and professional education programs.

• Align with the best physicians and providers through collaborative care teams and pluralistic physician relationship models.

• Position Cedars-Sinai as the preferred healthcare employer in the Los Angeles region and among the most preferred in the nation.

• Advance the health status of the communities through health equity initiatives.

• Innovate and integrate the use of emerging digital and medical technologies.

• Ensure overall growth, financial performance and philanthropy to advance the mission and vision of the institution.

Nationally Recognized High-Quality Care Delivery

Detailed attention to quality of patient care, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, patient satisfaction and a high number of preventive health screenings are hallmarks of Cedars-Sinai. Clinical programs range from primary care to specialized treatments for rare, complex and advanced illnesses.

In addition, Cedars-Sinai serves the community through its Medical Network and through a variety of programs that improve the health of the most vulnerable residents of Los Angeles.

Cedars-Sinai has been named to the Honor Roll for the 10th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Hospitals 2025-26" rankings. Cedars-Sinai ranked in the top ten nationally in six specialties: Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (#2); Orthopaedics (#5); Pulmonology and Lung Surgery (#5); Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Surgery (#6); Obstetrics and Gynecology (#8, tied), Diabetes and Endocrinology (#9). Three specialties were also #1 in California:

Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, and Orthopedics.

In 2025, Cedars-Sinai received its eight consecutive five-star rating in the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings by CMS, the highest distinction by the federal agency. Of the more than 2,891 U.S. hospitals rated, only about 10% earned five stars.

Cedars-Sinai has received the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award twenty years in a row for providing the highest quality medical care in Los Angeles and has the longest-running Magnet Designation for Nursing Excellence in California. Cedars-Sinai continues to excel in patient experience, receiving top scores in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, exceeding both the national and California averages for both the “overall rating” questions and the “would recommend” question.

Across all survey areas (inpatient, medical practice and emergency department), Cedars-Sinai performed in the top quartile of all hospitals nationwide.

Breakthrough Research

Discovery is a core value to Cedars-Sinai’s mission. The institution’s laboratories and clinics generate ideas, therapies, devices and systems that contribute to biomedical progress around the world. More than 2,000 current research projects explore the full breadth of biomedical research.

Examples include investigating how high-fat diets promote liver cancer, the effects of near weightlessness on iPSCs in conjunction with NASA, connections among diabetes and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, and the genetic underpinnings of disease, exploiting the potential of stem cells, leveraging nanotechnology, parsing big data, and assessing how gender and metabolism impact health.

During the last six years, Cedars-Sinai has more than doubled its federal awards. Cedars-Sinai’s FY24 federal awards totaled $158 million, with 2,300 publications and 2,200 active research projects. Cedars-Sinai is ranked 10th among non-university hospitals that receive NIH funding.

Cedars-Sinai is home to 19 academic departments, with faculty in anesthesiology, biomedical sciences, cardiac surgery, cardiology, computational biomedicine, emergency medicine, imaging, medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedics, patho