Open Rank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Job Info

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Department:

TraCS Institute - 429801

Posting Open Date:

05/19/2022

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Position Type:

Permanent Faculty

Working Title:

Open Rank

Appointment Type:

Open Rank

Vacancy ID:

FAC0004054

Full-time/Part-time:

Full-Time Permanent

Hours per week:

40

FTE:

1

Position Location:

North Carolina, US

Hiring Range:

Dependent on Qualifications/Experience

Proposed Start Date:

01/01/2023

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

Position Summary:

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, in collaboration with departments in the School of Medicine and across the entire University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, seeks outstanding faculty candidates to join our Program in Health and Clinical Informatics. These positions will be expected to help build a premier program in clinical informatics research. Newly recruited faculty members are expected to play an active role in campus-wide collaborations in teaching, mentoring, and research initiatives in clinical informatics, as well as helping to build a robust clinical informatics research community and contributing to the overall School of Medicine clinical informatics roadmap. We also expect that faculty recruited under this mechanism will ultimately obtain independent funding as a principal or co-investigator on research grants and contracts.

Candidates are expected to be physicians or PhDs with expertise and experience in research and training in clinical and health informatics. Applicants should have a strong record of recent accomplishments as a post-doctoral fellow or sustained productivity as an established faculty member. Appointment and rank in an academic department will be determined by the applicant's qualifications. There are several departments with specific interest in recruiting in this area, including (but not limited to) Medicine, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Neurology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Family Medicine, Dermatology, Allied Health, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Urology, ENT, and Anesthesiology.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Doctoral degree is required.

Candidates should have a minimum of 1-2 years of postdoctoral research experience. Candidates are expected to be physicians or PhDs with expertise and experience in research and training in clinical and health informatics.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Candidates with specific expertise in analysis and modeling of electronic health record data are strongly encouraged to apply.

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities:

Not Applicable.

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