EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESEARCH FACULTY - ASSISTANT & ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR

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Work type: Multi-Track Faculty

Location: Jacksonville Campus

Categories: Executive/Director/Management, Medicine/Physicians

Department: 30290000 - JX-EMERGENCY MEDICINE-JAX

Classification Title:

AST/ ASO/FULL PROF

Job Description:

The University of Florida Department of Emergency Medicine - Jacksonville is seeking a full-time board-certified emergency physician leader with experience in federally funded research and industry clinical trials. Located in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida, the Department of Emergency Medicine is one of the oldest and well-established Emergency Medicine programs in the country. Tenured and non-tenured academic multi-mission tracks are available dependent on applicant experience and background. Responsibilities include research, patient care, and teaching. This position will be supported by a robust existing departmental research infrastructure with protected time and potential for transition to an assistant or associate chair leadership position.

UF Health Jacksonville’s main clinical campus includes a 639-bed urban teaching hospital, ACS accredited Level 1 Trauma Center, separate pediatric emergency and observation units, regional poison center, and simulation center located in downtown Jacksonville. The department supports a nationally recognized residency training program and fellowships in pediatric emergency medicine, ultrasound, research, education, and patient safety. UF Health North is a rapidly growing community hospital with over 200 beds and a 35-bed emergency department. Additional clinical sites include 3 new state of the art freestanding transitional EDs and UF Health Wildlight Urgent Care. Our clinical sites offer diverse patient populations providing ideal environments for clinical practice, teaching, and research with combined ED visits of over 195,000 patients per year. The University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville includes Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, an Office of Research Affairs, the Center for Data Solutions, and the Institute for Population Health. To learn more about UF Health Jacksonville visithttps://ufhealthjax.org/assets/media/about/uf-health-jacksonville-fact-sheet.pdf.

This position will offer opportunities to expand on the current emergency medicine research portfolio while providing vision and leadership for the department's continued journey as a national leader in federally funded grants (NIH, HRSA, CDC, SAMHSA, etc.) and industry sponsored clinical, device, and biomarker studies. Current areas of research focus include pain management, adult and pediatric EMS, pediatric asthma, heart failure, pharmacogenomics, posttraumatic sequelae, toxicology, sepsis and infectious diseases.

The Division of EM Research manages approximately 80 projects and 60 active IRBs with annual funding of $9 million in federal, private foundation, and industry funded grants and programs including an EM Research Biosafety Level 2 laboratory for specimen processing and storage. Experienced clinical research coordinator coverage is provided 7 days per week including evenings. Departmental research staff include a PhD associate director, assistant director of clinical trials, research administrative specialist, IRB and REDCap coordinator, full and part-time clinical research coordinators, program managers, and student interns. All coordinators are certified phlebotomists. The Division administers the successful Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI) and the Florida Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) State Partnership Program.Research faculty have ongoing collaborations with numerous University of Florida colleges and departments for successful cross campus research. The Department participates in several multi-university research networks.

With more than 6,200 faculty and staff, UF Health in Jacksonville is the largest UF campus outside of Gainesville. UF Health physicians offer primary care and specialty services in practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, tallying more than 650,000 outpatient visits and more than 40,000 inpatient admissions annually.

UF Health in Jacksonville, Florida, is comprised of:

• UF Health Jacksonville, an academic health center near Downtown Jacksonville and home to the area's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma program

• UF Health North, a 92-bed hospital and outpatient medical campus in North Jacksonville

• UF Health Science Center Jacksonville, which encompasses three UF colleges in Jacksonville: Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy

• UF Jacksonville Physicians, Inc., a network of primary and specialty care centers offering exceptional patient care throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. We excel in education, research and patient care that expresses our steadfast values of compassion, excellence, professionalism and innovation. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 450 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 384 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.

Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.

To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visithttps://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.

Expected Salary:

Salary and academic appointment is negotiable and the benefits are excellent.

Minimum Requirements:

MD/DO and board-certified emergency physician leader with experience in federally funded research and industry clinical trials.

Preferred Qualifications:

A history of successful clinical research (funded or unfunded) in an EM setting is preferred.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

The Search Committee will begin to review applications as soon as an applicant pool is identified. Please provide letter of intent and Curriculum Vitae.

Please direct questions and inquiries to Dr. Phyllis Hendry, Associate Chair of Emergency Medicine Research atphyllis.hendry@jax.ufl.eduor 904-244-4986.

The final candidate will be required to provide an official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered "official" if a designation of "Issued to Student" is visible. Degrees earned from an education institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found athttp://www.naces.org/.

The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to nondiscrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations, genetic information and veteran status in all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training.

The University of Florida is a public institution and subject to all requirements under the Florida Sunshine and Public Records laws. If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call (352) 392-2HRS or the Florida Relay System at (800) 955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.

Health Assessment Required:Yes

Advertised: 22 Aug 2024 Eastern Daylight Time

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