Date Posted: 10/26/2025
Closing Date: 12/01/2025, 11:59PM ET
Req ID: 45734
Job Category: Faculty - Clinical
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Medicine
Hospital Affiliation: University Health Network (UHN) & Sinai Health System (SHS)
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Description:
The Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Division of Cardiology at the University Health Network (UHN) and Sinai Health System (SH) are seeking to recruit a visionary adult Cardiologist to lead the UHN - SH Division of Cardiology, a Division of the Joint Department of Medicine. The successful candidate must be eligible for a full-time clinical academic appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor at the University of Toronto and be eligible to hold the Pfizer Chair in Cardiology Research. This hospital Division Head position is for a 5-year term, renewable once following a successful review. Effective start date for the date of appointment is March 1st, 2026, or can be negotiated.
The Division of Cardiology within the Department of Medicine at University Health Network – Sinai Health aspires to be a leader across many subspecialty areas. The successful candidate will be charged with developing a vision for the Division, building on and enhancing its outstanding academic reputation and delivering the highest quality cutting edge clinical care. The Division is presently comprised of sixty-five cardiologists in fifteen subspecialty areas.
The successful applicant should be a visionary leader with sophisticated interpersonal skills, leadership or equivalent work-related / lived experience and a track record of achievement in one or more of research, education, creative professional activity, system design, quality and safety, equity and diversity and/or medical leadership.
Reporting to the Physicians in Chief at UHN and SH, the Division Head will be expected to support evolution of excellence in equitable, patient-centered care and quality and safety programs, to work collaboratively with diverse groups and lead with empathy and compassion in advocating for the advancement of patient care and the Division and across the Department and Hospitals. The successful candidate is also expected to work in close alignment with the Program Medical Director, the Senior Director and the Vice President Clinical of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (UHN), and the Vice President of the Urgent and Acute Care Program at SH to support successful and accountable program operations.
They will support Division recruitment at the hospitals to optimize both clinical care and the academic agenda. They will advance an academic and clinical strategic action plan and fundraising program to support all members of their Division, aligned with hospital strategic plans. They will demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of their work and will uphold equity as a central component of high-quality patient care.
They will also work with the University of Toronto Departmental Division Director of Cardiology, to optimize citywide activity by supporting faculty growth and development across the continuum, focusing on advancing the academic strategic plans of both the hospitals and city-wide divisions, assisting with city-wide educational responsibilities of the Division, and promoting scholarship and research.
The successful candidate must hold an MD degree; have or be eligible for certification in Cardiology/Internal Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and have or be eligible for licensure to practice from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Academic rank, salary and contractual arrangements will be commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. Compensation will be commensurate with rank and experience and within the range of Academic Physician Leaders at the University of Toronto teaching hospitals.
Applications will be accepted until December 1st, 2025 or until the position is filled.
Should you be interested in this exciting opportunity, please email your letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of 3 referees to
Dr. Kathryn Tinckam Physician In Chief, UHN and
Dr. Chaim Bell, Physician In Chief, Sinai Health System
via email to Ms. Joelinda Gomes Joelinda.Gomes@uhn.ca
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For more information about the University of Toronto Department of Medicine please visit our website at http://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca.
