International Opportunities
and Fellowship Program
UPMC is hiring at facilities in Palermo, Sicily, and Doha, Qatar.
For more information about international
career opportunities, contact:
Michael Anderson
Director, Human Resources
International and Commercial Services
UPMC
Forbes Tower, Suite 8084
200 Lothrop St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-647-7760
andersonmp@upmc.edu
Eric McIntosh
Recruiter
International and Commercial Services
UPMC
Forbes Tower, Suite 8084
200 Lothrop St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-692-2655
mcintoshed@upmc.edu
Dublin, Ireland
In February 2008, UPMC partnered with Beacon Medical Group to operate the independent Beacon Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. This is UPMC’s first contract to manage a hospital in Ireland.
About Beacon Hospital
Located south of Dublin, Ireland, in the city of Sandyford, Beacon Hospital is a 238,000 square foot full-service hospital. The hospital offers treatment ranging from minor injuries to emergency care.
Beacon Hospital’s services and departments include:
- Cancer Center
- Cardiology
- Critical Care
- Emergency Department
- Endoscopy
- General Medicine
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmic
- Orthopaedic
- Radiology
- Urology
- Women’s Center
Number of Beds
- 183 total beds
- 108 beds among four wards
- 20 day unit beds
- 14 Critical Care Unit beds
- 41 beds among the Emergency Department and recovery areas
Technology
Beacon Hospital’s state-of-the-art information technology systems offer electronic medical record capabilities and remote access to clinical information, allowing physicians to access patient information from virtually any location.
Career Opportunities
Due to UPMC’s rapid overseas growth, a number of exciting international career opportunities are available. To search for international career opportunities, visit www.upmc.com, click on Careers at UPMC, search job openings, and enter the job number listed next to the position in the job opening identification field.
- Vice President of Operations-1033487
For More Information
For more information about Beacon Hospital or international career opportunities, contact:
Denise Cole
Director of Human Resources
Beacon Hospital
Sandyford
Dublin 18
353-1-293-8693
denise.cole@beaconhospital.ie
ISMETT
Located in Palermo, Sicily, the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT) serves the region of Sicily and the Mediterranean. Available positions are listed on their website at http://www.ismett.edu/. Eligible candidates should send a curriculum vitae via e-mail to gpadovano@ismett.edu or via mail to:
Giulia Padovana
Director of Human Resources
ISMETT
Piazza Sett’Angeli, 10
90134
Palermo, Italy
Doha, State of Qatar
Due to UPMC’s rapid overseas growth, a number of exciting opportunities are available. Open positions are listed below. To apply online, visit www.upmc.com, click on Careers at UPMC, search openings, and enter the job number listed next to each position in the job opening ID field.
- EMS Supervisor-1031684
- Trauma Surgeon-1031667
- Trauma Registrar-1029791
- Trauma Nurse Coordinator-1025447
- Emergency Physician-1028446
- Emergency RN-1025572
- Emergency RN-1025448
- Emergency Physician Obstetrics/Gynecology-1031670
- Emergency RN Obstetrics/Gynecology-1031671
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
International Leadership and Management Administrative Fellowship Program
UPMC announces the newly-formed International Leadership and Management Administrative Fellowship Program. With the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), and the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, the program provides fellows with practical experience in international health executive management.
The 18-month program identifies talented individuals with management expertise to support the knowledge and technology transfer of our international programs and cross fertilize our UPMC domestic and overseas operations.
Program Structure
The first 12 months of the program consist of rotations in key areas such as cultural preparedness, finance, clinical operations, physician practice management, clinical support services administration, nursing, and human resources. The remaining six months of the rotation comprise a five-month on-site placement at one or two of our international sites in an executive leadership role. The remaining month is spent in the International and Commercial Services Division. The project assignment is specific to the host facility.
GSPH provides a seven-week course in late summer/early fall which covers global public health care issues in each of the countries in which UPMC has established an ongoing relationship. GSPIA, the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), and the Katz International Business Center collaboratively provide a nine-week course from October through early December to cover cultural sensitivities about the regions in which UPMC operates, the internal politics, and the historical and ongoing economic relationship between the country and the United States.
Core Functional Rotations
- 1. Clinical Operations
This rotation exposes fellows to the key components of clinical operations such as physician relations, nursing, clinical staffing, regulatory compliance, patient care initiatives, process improvement, medical records, and health information management.
- 2. Finance
This rotation exposes fellows to management in various financial and revenue cycle initiatives including registration, coding, billing, collections, financial modeling/forecasting, budgetary development and variance reconciliation, and business plan development.
- 3. Physician Practice Management
This rotation offers fellows a management opportunity in various outpatient clinics, procedure areas, same-day surgery, and the medical center’s largest physician practice, University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP). This rotation includes participation in the 12-week UPMC-Katz Physician Leadership and Management “Mini-MBA” Certificate program.
- 4. Patient Care Services Administration
This rotation exposes fellows to the many facets of nursing operations and administration. Fellows are involved with ongoing strategic initiatives with business unit directors to help improve patient care, workflow, staffing, and scheduling issues.
- 5. Support Services Administration
This rotation allows fellows to work on projects that address the current needs of support services administration to gain an understanding of medical center-wide initiatives in key support services areas including facilities planning, construction, and maintenance.
- 6. Human Resources and Cultural Preparedness
This rotation exposes fellows to the many facets of translating the UPMC corporate culture to the overseas experiences. This rotation includes cultural preparedness training and in-depth education on political, economic, and public health issues in the countries that host our international facilities. Opportunities to increase the fellow’s second language proficiency also are available.
The remaining six months of the fellowship offer additional opportunities to develop satisfying career objectives in a global environment. Based on the organization’s needs and available opportunities, the fellows are assigned an administrative rotation at one of our international sites. The fellow works under the direction of one of our senior executives at our host site, with project work addressing the current administrative and operational needs at the site. A minimum of a five-month oversea stay is required.
International Leadership and Management Administrative Fellowship Program Overview
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, UPMC is one of the leading nonprofit medical centers in the United States. Affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh schools of the health sciences, UPMC includes 20 hospitals, 5,000 physicians and 48,000 employees, an award-winning health plan serving 1.2 million members, and a broad array of diversified health care services. An integrated health care enterprise, it has the medical expertise, geographic reach, and financial stability that allow it to develop models of excellence that are transforming health care nationally and internationally.
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs is a professional school distinguished by the presence of public administration, international affairs, and international development in its academic mission. In 2007, Foreign Policy ranked GSPIA at number 15 among the top master’s programs for international relations. The school also is ranked 21st among the best schools in the nation for public affairs and nonprofit management, according to U.S.News & World Report. For public affairs specialty areas, GSPIA’s nonprofit management program was ranked 11th. The University Center for International Studies is home to a European Union Center of Excellence, one of only ten so designated in the United States partially funded by the European Union. UCIS works closely with most of the professional schools at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Graduate School of Public Health is world renowned for contributions that have influenced public health practices and medical care for millions of people. GSPH is one of 37 U.S. schools accredited by the Council on Education for Public health, and the first accredited school of public health in Pennsylvania. Among all public and private schools of public health, GSPH ranks third in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding. GSPH is home to more than 20 interdisciplinary research, practice, and service centers. The Center for Health Environments and Communities, the Center for Minority Health, and the Center for Healthy Aging are only a sample of the more recent community service activities coordinated by GSPH centers.
The Executive MBA programs at the Katz Graduate School of Business are the second oldest in the world. The Katz EMBA program is accredited by AACBS International — the premier accrediting agency for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting. The programs are consistently ranked in the top five percent of all MBA programs worldwide by U.S.News & World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Financial Times of London. The EMBA Worldwide program, designed for the business leader balancing global perspectives with local expertise, is ranked 35th in the world and 17th in the United States according to the Financial Times 2006 survey of EMBA programs.
Application Process
Interested applicants are required to have a master of health administration (MHA), a master of public or business administration (MPA/MBA), or an equivalent master-level degree from an accredited graduate program in a health- and/or business-related field. Applicants should have a minimum of three to five years of experience in a mid-level management position. Preference will be given to candidates with health care experience. Candidates should be highly motivated and self-starting, possess excellent analytic and communication skills, and fluent in English and one additional language. Preference will be give to candidates with Italian, French, and Greek language skills.
To apply, the following items must be
postmarked by April 15, 2008:
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most recent copy of resume (or curriculum vitae)
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graduate transcripts (originals required)
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personal statement of how the fellowship program will help you to achieve your career goals
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three letters of recommendation
Please send application materials to:
Dr. Anna M. Roman
Vice President, Administrative Services and Physician Relations, Physician Services Division
Director, UPMC International Leadership and Management Administrative Fellowship Program
3600 Forbes Ave. at Meyran
Suite 9035 Forbes Tower
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
For more information about the International Leadership and Management Administrative Fellowship Program, e-mail: Internationalfellowship@upmc.edu.
Applications will be reviewed, and selected applicants will be contacted to participate in first-round interviews to take place in early May. First-round interviews may be conducted via teleconference. Second-round interviews will take place in early June. Successful candidates will be notified by no later than June15, 2008 of their acceptance to the Fellowship Program. The fellowship will begin on August 1, 2008.
Salary and Benefits
UPMC provides a competitive salary and full benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance as well as generous relocation, retirement, and paid time off programs.
UPMC International
ITALY
- ISMETT (Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Highly Specialized Therapies) located in Palermo, Italy is a specialty hospital established in 1996 through a partnership between UPMC and the Region of Sicily. The global partnership brings together resources, intellectual capital, and the most advanced technologies to offer world-class care for the cure and treatment of end-stage organ failure.
- Managed and operated by UPMC, ISMETT has become one of the leading organ transplant centers in Italy and a major referral center for other Mediterranean countries with more than 500 transplants performed over the past decade and outstanding clinical results. ISMETT has the highest one-year survival rate in Italy for liver transplants.
- An organization-wide, state-of-the-art communications network — one of the first of its kind in Italy — allows for the exchange of all information and documentation by the institute’s clinicians and real-time access to UPMC hospitals and physicians, including world-renowned transplant surgeons at UPMC’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.
- ISMETT’s capabilities have expanded to include an advanced medical simulation center that provides hands-on training to medical professionals and a major cell factory to advance research in regenerative medicine.
- The partnership remains one of the world’s largest, most advanced and most successful international ventures ever undertaken by a U.S. academic medical center.
- A new $350 million research center funded by the Italian government, but managed by UPMC has been approved.
IRELAND
- UPMC Whitfield Cancer Centre and Beacon Cancer Centre opened in fall 2006. Radiation oncology facilities are located in Waterford and Dublin, Ireland respectively. The centers bring the expertise and cutting-edge technology of UPMC Cancer Centers’ most advanced cancer diagnostic and treatment services to populations whose access to these services historically has been limited.
- UPMC Whitfield Cancer Centre is a joint program of UPMC Cancer Centers and Euro Care International, an Irish-based health care development company. The centre is the first private facility to sign an agreement with Ireland’s Health Service Executive to provide radiotherapy for cancer patients who do not have private health insurance. Beacon Cancer Centre is a joint program of Triad Hospitals Inc. and UPMC Cancer Centers.
QATAR
- Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) located in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and UPMC have formed a partnership to evaluate, improve, and achieve excellence in emergency care for the citizens and residents of the State of Qatar.
- UPMC physicians and nurses provide hands-on training in emergency medicine and work side-by-side with their local counterparts to provide world-class emergency care at four HMC hospitals.
UNITED KINGDOM
- UPMC is working closely with several NHS Hospital Trusts in the development of clinical operations and the implementation of commercial products in England
- UPMC is actively pursuing opportunities in clinical operations in a variety of other countries. UPMC International has headquarters in Rome and Dublin.
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