Infectious Disease - Physician Scientist

Department:
SOM KC Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
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Medicine-Infectious Disease

Position Title:
Infectious Disease - Physician Scientist

Job Family Group:
Academic

Job Description Summary:
Tenure track appointments are full-time with an initial probationary period of seven years. Criteria for promotion includes significant achievements in teaching, research/scholarship, and service. The award of tenure is based on potential for sustained contributions, performing beyond expected duties, and demonstrating leadership and innovation in activities that enhance the reputation of the University.

The Clinical Scholar Track is for full-time faculty members who are heavily involved in clinical service, education, and related scholarship. This track has two career paths: Clinician-Educator concentrating on teaching and Clinician-Investigator for concentrating on research/scholarship. Significant contributions in professional and academic service are required for both paths.

Job Description:
The University of Kansas Health Care System, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases are recruiting candidates for a full-time physician scientist faculty position. The Division of Infectious Diseases seeks strong candidates with a demonstrated track record of funded and published research, including interdisciplinary collaborations, with a broadly defined focus in infectious diseases.

The Department of Internal Medicine has a thriving and rapidly expanding research portfolio that spans the entire spectrum of basic and clinical research from genes and molecules to translation of discoveries in the community. With a new Research Office, the Department has witnessed unsurpassed enthusiasm and support for research over the past year. Internal Medicine active grant funding is over $43M.

The University of Kansas Medical Center is a 1000-bed world-class academic medical center and destination for complex care and diagnosis. The health system includes more than 100 locations, more than 12,500 employees and more than 1,000 physicians.

The candidate will have 60-80% protected research effort. This will include support for staffing, equipment, and laboratory space from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases. Additionally, financial support for program expansion in pursuit of grant funding is available.

The candidate will have 20-40% clinical effort. This includes rotating on the inpatient infectious diseases' consultation service. While on the consultation service responsibilities include seeing new inpatient consultations as well as follow-up patients. These duties may involve a teaching service that typically is comprised of medical students, internal medicine residents, and/or infectious diseases fellows. Clinical teaching is expected when overseeing a teaching service. Additionally, the infectious diseases consult services are support by infectious diseases pharmacists.

Additionally, the candidate will be required to participate in teaching activities. This includes the infectious diseases core lecture series, infectious diseases journal club, infectious diseases case conference, and infectious diseases research conference.

We are seeking candidates who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. Minoritized persons/women/individuals with disabilities/protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

Required Qualifications:
Education

MD and/or MD/PhD or equivalent
Board Certification in Internal Medicine
Board Eligible in Infectious Disease

Work Experience/Skills

Ability to obtain Kansas Medical License
Ability to obtain Missouri Medical License
Ability to obtain clinical privileges at the University of Kansas Health System and Medical Center
Ability to work both individual and collaboratively within a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment
Ability to foster a research culture within the Division of Infectious Disease
Ability to provide mentorship to clinician researchers

Preferred Qualifications:
Education:
Board Certified in Infectious Disease

Work Experience/Skills:
Candidate will have a record of extramural funding
Evidence of high quality, peer reviewed public

Additional Job Duties Outlined:
Rotating on consult service
Teaching med students, residents, fellows and other learners
Perform other duties as assigned by the Chair of Medicine or Director of Infectious Disease Division

Required Documents:
Resume/CV
Cover Letter

Employee Type:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time

Application Instructions:
To learn more and apply online, please visit https://kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-jobs/job/Kansas-City-Metro-Area/Infectious-Disease---Physician-Scientist_JR005041 or go to https://careers.kumc.edu/ and search for position number JR005041.

Applications must be submitted directly through the KU Medical Center website to be considered for this position. Any applications submitted via email or this website will NOT be reviewed or considered.

About KU Medical Center:
The University of Kansas Medical Centers mission is to educate exceptional health care professionals through a full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral and continuing education programs in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions. KU Medical Center also advances the health sciences through world-class research programs; provides compassionate and state-of-the-art patient care in an academic medical center environment; and works with communities in every Kansas county to improve the health of Kansans. Learn more at www.kumc.edu .

Benefits:
KUMC offers a range of great benefits that support employees and eligible family members. Our health insurance benefits begin on hire date and KUMC offers other exciting benefits such as paid parental leave, generous employer retirement contributions and other resources to improve health and well-being. For more information, please visit https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

KU is an EO/AAE. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic information or protected Veteran status. http://policy.ku.edu/IOA/nondiscrimination

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