Medical Director Jobs in Texas
Medical Director jobs in Texas are among the most active in the country, concentrated in managed care, large integrated health systems, and academic medicine, with openings at every level from physician leadership pipeline roles through senior executive positions. Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio anchor the bulk of hiring, home to major systems like HCA Healthcare, UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Baylor Scott and White Health. The most consistent demand is in utilization management, population health, and quality and patient safety leadership. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Under the direction from the Chairs of the Departments of Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Neurosurgery will provide strategic direction and oversight for all aspects of pain medicine including clinical practice, education and research. Will provide clinical services in their scope of practice.Job Description:
Medical Director, Interventional Pain & Spine Center
Department: Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management
Location: Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA
Reports To: Chair, Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Chair, Neurosurgery
Position Summary :
Lahey Clinic is actively seeking a visionary, collaborative, and growth-oriented physician leader to serve as Medical Director of Interventional Pain & Spine Center . This individual will provide strategic, clinical, operational, and academic leadership for the Pain Center, with responsibility for advancing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program dedicated to the treatment of acute, chronic, cancer-related, and complex spine pain conditions.
Key Responsibilities :
As the clinical leader for the division, you will oversee patient care delivery and develop high-quality clinical services that enable the team to effectively manage complex pain conditions through pharmacologic, interventional, and non-interventional approaches. You will ensure evidence-based, patient-centered care while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and clinical excellence.
Working closely with Department Chairs and institutional leadership, you will lead the strategic expansion of outpatient pain clinics, interventional procedure locations, and related service lines to improve patient access, operational efficiency, and regional market presence. This includes growth of advanced procedural offerings such as image-guided spine interventions, neuromodulation, minimally invasive pain therapies, and other emerging techniques, while also strengthening non-procedural services including medication optimization, rehabilitation, behavioral health integration, pain psychology, and multidisciplinary chronic pain pathways.
A critical priority of the role is to build strong internal partnerships across the health system. You will work closely with Oncology to expand services for cancer-related pain management and collaborate with the Director of Acute Pain to enhance inpatient care pathways for patients with chronic pain and complex perioperative pain needs. Additional collaboration with Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Primary Care, PM&R, Behavioral Health, Rheumatology, Palliative Care, and Rehabilitation Services will be essential to creating seamless, coordinated care models.
In education and research, you will help shape the future of the program by developing a Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program and promoting faculty engagement in resident and trainee education. You will also support scholarly activity, clinical innovation, outcomes research , and participation in regional and national academic initiatives.
Additional responsibilities include oversight of quality, safety, patient experience, provider recruitment and mentorship, operational performance, and program growth. The successful candidate will be a respected clinician and leader with strong relationship-building skills, entrepreneurial vision, and a demonstrated commitment to advancing multidisciplinary pain care through collaboration, education, innovation, and excellence.
Time Allocation & Reporting :
Nonclinical Time: 20% dedicated administrative time (at the discretion of the Chairs).
Clinical Time: 8 0% (at the discretion of the Chairs).
Reporting: Regular meetings with the Department Chairs or their designees.
Skills & Requirements :
Education: Medical Degree (MD/DO) from an accredited school.
Training: Completion of an accredited Pain Fellowship .
Certification: Board Certification and a valid license to practice.
Experience:
5-10 years of clinical experience preferred.
3 + years of clinical leadership experience prefer red .
Strong skills in:
Leadership, communication, and collaboration
Data analysis and decision-making
Healthcare systems, quality, and safety metrics
About Lahey Clinic:
A ward-winning, UMass Chan Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital.
Located in Burlington, MA (30 minutes from downtown Boston).
Highly desirable area with superb educational opportunities, abundant cultural and social amenities, and excellent recreational activities.
To Apply:
Submit your CV and Letter of Introduction to:
R enee Castro, Physician Recruiter
Beth Israel Lahey Health Burlington, MA 01805
Renee.Castro@lahey.org
c/o Michael Kaufman, MD, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Dr. Zoher Ghogawala, MD, Chair, Division of Neurosurgery
Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve . All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment . Please see here for more information about our purpose and values (https://bilh.org/about/purpose-values) and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (https://bilh.org/careers/eeo-policy).
Pay Range:
$485,000.00 USD - $515,000.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Under the direction from the Chairs of the Departments of Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Neurosurgery will provide strategic direction and oversight for all aspects of pain medicine including clinical practice, education and research. Will provide clinical services in their scope of practice.Job Description:
Medical Director, Interventional Pain & Spine Center
Department: Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management
Location: Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA
Reports To: Chair, Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Chair, Neurosurgery
Position Summary :
Lahey Clinic is actively seeking a visionary, collaborative, and growth-oriented physician leader to serve as Medical Director of Interventional Pain & Spine Center . This individual will provide strategic, clinical, operational, and academic leadership for the Pain Center, with responsibility for advancing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program dedicated to the treatment of acute, chronic, cancer-related, and complex spine pain conditions.
Key Responsibilities :
As the clinical leader for the division, you will oversee patient care delivery and develop high-quality clinical services that enable the team to effectively manage complex pain conditions through pharmacologic, interventional, and non-interventional approaches. You will ensure evidence-based, patient-centered care while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and clinical excellence.
Working closely with Department Chairs and institutional leadership, you will lead the strategic expansion of outpatient pain clinics, interventional procedure locations, and related service lines to improve patient access, operational efficiency, and regional market presence. This includes growth of advanced procedural offerings such as image-guided spine interventions, neuromodulation, minimally invasive pain therapies, and other emerging techniques, while also strengthening non-procedural services including medication optimization, rehabilitation, behavioral health integration, pain psychology, and multidisciplinary chronic pain pathways.
A critical priority of the role is to build strong internal partnerships across the health system. You will work closely with Oncology to expand services for cancer-related pain management and collaborate with the Director of Acute Pain to enhance inpatient care pathways for patients with chronic pain and complex perioperative pain needs. Additional collaboration with Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Primary Care, PM&R, Behavioral Health, Rheumatology, Palliative Care, and Rehabilitation Services will be essential to creating seamless, coordinated care models.
In education and research, you will help shape the future of the program by developing a Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program and promoting faculty engagement in resident and trainee education. You will also support scholarly activity, clinical innovation, outcomes research , and participation in regional and national academic initiatives.
Additional responsibilities include oversight of quality, safety, patient experience, provider recruitment and mentorship, operational performance, and program growth. The successful candidate will be a respected clinician and leader with strong relationship-building skills, entrepreneurial vision, and a demonstrated commitment to advancing multidisciplinary pain care through collaboration, education, innovation, and excellence.
Time Allocation & Reporting :
Nonclinical Time: 20% dedicated administrative time (at the discretion of the Chairs).
Clinical Time: 8 0% (at the discretion of the Chairs).
Reporting: Regular meetings with the Department Chairs or their designees.
Skills & Requirements :
Education: Medical Degree (MD/DO) from an accredited school.
Training: Completion of an accredited Pain Fellowship .
Certification: Board Certification and a valid license to practice.
Experience:
5-10 years of clinical experience preferred.
3 + years of clinical leadership experience prefer red .
Strong skills in:
Leadership, communication, and collaboration
Data analysis and decision-making
Healthcare systems, quality, and safety metrics
About Lahey Clinic:
A ward-winning, UMass Chan Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital.
Located in Burlington, MA (30 minutes from downtown Boston).
Highly desirable area with superb educational opportunities, abundant cultural and social amenities, and excellent recreational activities.
To Apply:
Submit your CV and Letter of Introduction to:
R enee Castro, Physician Recruiter
Beth Israel Lahey Health Burlington, MA 01805
Renee.Castro@lahey.org
c/o Michael Kaufman, MD, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Interventional Pain Management and Dr. Zoher Ghogawala, MD, Chair, Division of Neurosurgery
Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve . All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment . Please see here for more information about our purpose and values (https://bilh.org/about/purpose-values) and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (https://bilh.org/careers/eeo-policy).
Pay Range:
$485,000.00 USD - $515,000.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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Medical Director Job Market in Texas
A snapshot from current Texas openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Supplied Talent12
- VCA Animal Hospitals8
- HCA Houston Healthcare6
- US Department of Veterans Affairs6
- TeamHealth5
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services11
- Education3
- Animal Care & Pet Services2
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals2
- Insurance1
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in medical director jobs across Texas.
- Active Texas Medical Board license or eligibility for Texas physician licensure required
- MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school with board certification in a clinical specialty
- Minimum five years of clinical practice experience prior to transitioning into a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience in quality improvement, utilization review, or clinical operations management
- Familiarity with Texas Health and Human Services regulations and managed care compliance standards
- Strong working knowledge of value-based care models and population health management principles
Medical Director Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a medical director in Texas?
Becoming a medical director in Texas starts with obtaining an unrestricted physician license through the Texas Medical Board, which requires completing an accredited residency and passing USMLE or COMLEX board exams. Most employers also expect board certification in a recognized specialty. From there, candidates typically build several years of clinical experience before moving into leadership through roles in quality, utilization management, or department administration. An MBA or MPH can strengthen candidacy at larger health systems.
Which companies hire medical directors in Texas?
Employers hiring medical directors in Texas right now include Supplied Talent, VCA Animal Hospitals, and HCA Houston Healthcare, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Texas's size and mix of large integrated systems, managed care organizations, and academic medical centers means demand is distributed across both metro markets and regional health networks.
Which Texas cities have the most medical director jobs?
Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio have the most medical director openings in Texas. Houston leads because of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, while Dallas and Fort Worth are anchored by UT Southwestern, Baylor Scott and White, and a dense concentration of managed care and insurance headquarters that consistently hire physician leadership.
Are there remote medical director jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most clinical roles, since medical director work is often leadership and administrative rather than hands-on patient care. About 48% of medical director openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting demand from managed care organizations and telehealth companies. Utilization management, quality review, and population health director roles are the most likely to be fully remote.
How can I get hired as a medical director in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a physician leadership development program, which large Texas systems including UT Southwestern and Baylor Scott and White offer to clinicians transitioning out of full-time practice. Lateral moves from roles like department chair, quality committee lead, or medical staff officer build the administrative record most employers require. Completing a managed care or physician executive certificate through a Texas graduate medical education program, or earning a Certified Physician Executive designation, strengthens an application without requiring prior director experience.
Where can I find and apply to medical director jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to medical director jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to Texas employers. Search the listings by city or specialty area, find roles that fit your background, and apply directly to each one.
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