Clinical Compensation Plan
Overview
Achieving excellence across all elements of our mission is at the core of what we do at UVA Health, and our exceptional faculty are critical to our success. We want to create an energizing and enriching experience for faculty, starting with a compensation plan that is market-competitive, equitable, and easily understood. In a multi-year endeavor, we have redesigned the School of Medicine Clinical Compensation Plan, which allows us to:
- Better recruit and retain top-tier physician faculty;
- Ensure consistent, transparent, simple, and fair compensation for all faculty;
- Provide chair and department leadership autonomy in developing key metrics to create incentives to meet the unique needs of departments.
- Establish flexibility to allow for market adjustments that maintain competitive compensation among peer institutions.
Learn more about the new Clinical Compensation Plan in this overview video.
Contact Us
Please send your questions to clinicalcompplan@uvahealth.org.
Clinical Compensation Plan
The School of Medicine’s Clinical Compensation Plan rewards excellence in our mission areas and supports the work of our faculty based upon five guiding principles. Our plan will:
- Be fair, transparent, simple, and explainable.
- Require and recognize professionalism, collaboration, service, and citizenship.
- Align, incentivize, and reward productivity, quality, and excellence across all missions.
- Provide total compensation that will allow UVA to recruit and retain the best clinical faculty, aligned with nationally recognized compensation and productivity benchmarks.
- Follow all applicable laws and regulations.
As part of the new Clinical Compensation Plan process, several leadership groups were established across UVA Health and School of Medicine and regularly report to clinical department Chairs and Administrators. These leadership groups include:
- School of Medicine Project Management Team
- Jeremy Sibiski, Chief Operating Officer
- Allison Holt, Associate Dean for Finance and Administration
- Brentley Kellum, Director, Business Intelligence Projects and Operations
- Anelia Farhi, Director of Budget, Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Executive Council
- Melina R. Kibbe, MD, Dean, UVA School of Medicine
- Wendy Horton, PharmD, CEO, University Medical Center
- Scott Just, MD, CEO, UVA Physicians Group
- Cliff Iler, University Counsel
- Matthew Connors, Deputy University Counsel for Health Affairs
- Project Steering Committee
- Susan Pollart, MD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
- Joe Cardella, MD, Clinical Department Chief Operating Officer
- Gina Engel, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Ambulatory
- Mitchell Rosner, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine
- Allan Tsung, MD, Chair, Department of Surgery
- Christopher Moskaluk, MD, Chair, Department of Pathology
- Paola Gehrig, MD, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Nabil Elkassabany, MD, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations
- Kathleen McManus, MD, Chair, Committee on Women in Medicine and Science
- Tracy Downs, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- James Larner, MD, President, UVA Physicians Group
- John Bennett, MD, Chief Ambulatory Operations Officer
- Scott Just, MD, CEO, UVA Physicians Group
- Madhusmita Misra, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics
The Clinical Compensation Plan redesign includes four distinct phases. The goal is to develop a faculty-influenced plan that rewards excellence and is based on best practices.
- Phase 1: The overarching Clinical Compensation Plan principles and structure were developed. (Completed)
- Phase 2: Department-level planning commenced to develop the departmental metrics of the Clinical Compensation Plan. (Completed)
- Phase 3: A focus on analysis and modeling, during which feedback will be provided to each department. (Begins in September)
- Phase 4: A shadow period during which time individual faculty total cash compensation on the redesigned Clinical Compensation Plan will be modeled and compared to total cash compensation on the department’s current compensation plan. (Estimated to begin third quarter FY25).
Full implementation of the redesigned Clinical Compensation Plan is scheduled for FY26, provided that no further adjustments are required.