Physician Relations Liaison

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Position Summary:

With strategic expansion into the communities, the role of a Physician Liaison is critical in developing and sustaining relationships with referring physicians and office staff.  The Physician Liaison is responsible for the targeting, developing, and strengthening relationships between external physicians and City of Hope clinical sites.  The Liaison will support the overall growth strategies for the community practice locations, as well as Duarte campus; engaging physician involvement and participation in key City of Hope programs as outlined in the Strategic Plan.  In this position, the Liaison will visit physician offices regularly with updates on hospital services and ensure that physicians are satisfied with the hospital's level of care following recent referrals.
The successful Liaison provides and recommends clinical trials, specific knowledge about treatments and background on City of Hope physicians.  Success is measured by the number of new and retained referring physicians, number of new patients and by specialty.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• In partnership with the City of Hope community practice site physicians, the Liaison will develop and create strategic opportunities to promote outreach, grow referrals and increase City of Hope recognition.  Drive assigned business lines to achieve projected patient volumes and revenue goals.  
• Enhance relationships with community physicians through events, office contacts, written communications and other strategic approaches.  Answer physician questions about facility, availability, capabilities, terms, treatment solutions and clinical trials.  Troubleshoot complaints, as necessary.
• Support attendance to continuing medical education (CME) events.
• Contacts, meets with and orients each new community practice provider.
• Assist physicians as needed with open enrollment and community relations events.
• Regularly maintain and update database for all non-City of Hope physician and office staff contacts.  Provide reports for frequent distribution to leadership.  Ensure compliance according to Stark Law.  
• Analyze market to determine the highest value doctors, identify geographic areas of opportunities by zip and physician, as well as ROI.
• Collaborate with others on clinical marketing team, Foundation, community practice sites, physicians in Duarte, and CME department.

Your qualifications should include: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, or Healthcare; 4 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education.
• Professional experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience in physician relations or sales in healthcare/hospital setting.  Well-versed in oncology and treatment solutions. 

•  Driver’s license 

   

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