CareerPhysician, Wesley Millican, Child Health Advisory Council

The CareerPhysician Difference

CareerPhysician is the national leader in executive search and leadership development in academic pediatrics with 24 years of unprecedented success supporting the complex faculty and executive leadership needs of Departments of Pediatrics and Child Health Organizations. No one understands the pediatric leadership paradigm and its inherent supply, resource and system challenges better. The firm’s innovative talent acquisition and retention processes are recognized as the gold-standard in academic pediatric recruitment and leadership development. Through its Core Leadership Competencies and partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, CareerPhysician is exclusively committed to the continued development of current and future physician leaders.

Executive Search

Recognized as the gold-standard in executive search and leadership development, our Child Health team represents more than 50 years of search excellence in academic pediatrics successfully connecting our client partners to transformational faculty and physician leaders. Learn more.

Institutional Reviews

In partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, we offer leading-edge institutional review services to facilitate preparedness and ensure self-awareness prior to the inception of critical leadership talent acquisition endeavors. Learn more.

New Leader Engagement Program

The New Leader Engagement Program is offered in partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, represent an invaluable part of CareerPhysician’s innovative talent recruitment and retention process and are proven to ensure and bolster the success of new leaders and their programs. Learn more.

Core Leadership Competencies

Over the last 24 years of meeting the executive search and leadership development needs of child health organizations, ten leadership competencies have been constants in the candidate attribute requirements of our institutional partners and their search committees. As a key part of its commitment to pediatrics, CareerPhysician recognizes the need for professional development resources and training in its Core Leadership Competencies and has partnered with the Child Health Advisory Council to facilitate the transfer of invaluable wisdom and experience from one generation of leaders to the next. Expertise in each of these competencies will be required of all next generation leaders seeking to advance their programs, cultures and teams into the future. Learn more.

Securing quality pediatric physician and executive leaders requires far more than simply sourcing a known talent pool or database. CareerPhysician’s approach has always included systematic organizational preparation and thoughtful consideration of both hospital and department cultures. Over the last 20 years of our partnership, their innate ability to find leaders whose management style fits well within in an established culture, always immersing themselves in the daily life of an organization to understand the inner workings and personalities of the leadership team, and their proven ability to complete complex leadership assignments is what sets them apart from other executive search firms.
Peggy Troy, RN, MSNEmerita President & Chief Executive Officer Children's Hospital and Health System, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“CareerPhysician worked collaboratively with our search committees to synthesize, prioritize and focus our efforts on the most critical characteristics needed in a physician leader-clinical excellence, leadership acuity and cultural fit, personality traits, managerial experience and core competencies. As a result, we were able to hire outstanding physician leaders able to bring their programs to the next level.”
Joseph E. Kerschner, MDDean of the Medicine School and Executive Vice President, Professor of Otolaryngology, Medical College of Wisconsin
CareerPhysician has played a critical role in Cook Children’s Medical Staff development initiatives for more than twenty years. Their proven ability to facilitate often tenuous and politically sensitive assignments has enabled us to successfully recruit from among the Nation’s top pediatric talent. In the milieu of consulting and search firms, CareerPhysician stands out as one of the best.
Nancy Cychol, RN, MSNChief of Hospital Services and Affiliate Ventures Cook Children’s Health Care System, Fort Worth, Texas
CareerPhysician’s integrated approach is unique in the marketplace and key to the future development of pediatric leaders, pediatric research and integration across pediatric institutions.
Arnie Strauss, MDEmeritus Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center