Academic institutions shape leaders and drive innovation.

Combining access and technology to find the leaders of tomorrow

As the undisputed leader in permanent leadership and physician recruitment, placement, and innovation in the industry, your search partner —Kaye/Bassman Academic Leadership — has unparalleled access to visionary professionals and physician leaders at a multitude of AAMC and AACOM medical schools, academic medical centers, research institutions, health systems, and hospitals. Your dedicated team of leadership recruiters collaborates every day to streamline the recruitment process, resulting in quicker placements of Executive leadership, Chief Medical Officers, Vice Presidents of Medical Affairs, Founding Deans, Department Chairs, and Division Chiefs across all specialties and sub-specialties.

Our network connects you with the leaders of the future

The Kaye/Bassman Academic Leadership practice was formed over 20 years ago with a focus on academic medicine and leadership recruiting. Over the last two decades, we have developed strong relationships with premier institutions coast-to-coast, especially in rural and underserved areas and have full access to a diverse slate of active and passive candidates at all organizational levels and specialties within academic medicine.

Your search firm partner is led by a leadership staff of 30+ partners boasting an average tenure of over 14 years with Kaye/Bassman – all niche focused with an established GLOBAL network of contacts. We are proud to have a diverse staff that reaches clients across the globe building strong partnerships.

We are headquartered in the Dallas Metroplex area, with offices in most major cities and across the U.S., and operate under Starfish Partners, an international investment and ownership platform for niched professional and mid to upper-management search specialists. With its growing family of companies, Starfish Partners has built a comprehensive recruiting team fostering excellence within the recruitment industry.

Whether it is a single position or large-scale staffing initiative, our patented Client Focused Search™ and Market Mastery™ approaches enable us to identify, attract, evaluate, and acquire the most viable candidates for your institution.

Kaye/Bassman looks forward to developing a beneficial and lasting partnership with your institution.

  • Important elements KBIC brings to your executive search:

  • Since we are a neutral third party, we are able to help the Search Committee see your Institution through the eyes of others and help develop a suitable search strategy.
  • We will represent your Institution in balanced, honest terms to attract those distinguished physician candidates suspicious of the bias that originates from university insiders.
  • Because of the relationship between candidates and their search consultant, candidates find it easier to ask the tough questions, feeling that they will get a fair and honest answer.

  • We will leverage our professional internal and external networks to broadcast your opening. This can include various social media channels, email marketing campaigns, and advertising in industry publications. Our experience includes a full understanding that the best prospects are not likely to voluntarily apply for most roles because they are happily serving in their current positions.
  • We are able to capture and garner the attention of prospects that would otherwise go unnoticed and, in past experiences, have risen to the top of a short list.
  • We serve to help convince the best candidates to explore the opportunity while maintaining the strictest of confidentiality.

  • We have experience organizing and carrying out permanent placement searches through successful completion, and post-placement follow-up.
  • We have experienced a large array of physician searches and lend our substantial expertise when hard choices need a seasoned perspective or when a crisis occurs.
  • We fully understand the importance of consensus building and guide stakeholders through a careful analysis of the institution’s current and future needs.
  • We have extensive experience developing and screening an array of diverse candidates in terms of gender, ethnicity, and perspective.
  • We offer relief from time intensive labor that would add to an already intense workload of ancillary responsibilities passed to the evaluation committee or other faculty.