Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Tenure Track

Job Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Tenure Track
Status: Full-Time
Job Location: Houston
Requisition Number: 150205

JOB SUMMARY: The School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has multiple tenure-track positions in the following areas at assistant, associate, or full professor level. We are particularly interested in:

(1) Translational Bioinformatics, with a focus on utilizing bioinformatics theories, methods, and tools to address clinical and health problems as individual and population levels.

(2) Big health data informatics, with a focus on integrating, mining, and using data from multiple sources (e.g., clinical, genomic, population, and environmental data) to address challenging problems in clinical practice, health prevention, and biomedical discoveries.

The successful applicant will join a dynamic faculty at SBMI who are active in research, education, and applying informatics to clinical practice. UTHealth is in the world's largest medical center - the Texas Medical Center (TMC), located in cosmopolitan Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States. SBMI is one of the largest biomedical informatics programs in the nation with 24 regular faculty, 65 adjunct faculty, and nearly 200 graduate students. SBMI offers one PhD degree and two Master's degrees, along with three graduate certificate programs in biomedical and health informatics.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will be expected to conduct funded research, participate in teaching activities at the graduate level, and provide service at the school, university, national, and international levels. Collaborative research with other faculty in the school and across UTHealth and the Texas Medical Center is expected.

REQUIREMENTS: The individual should possess a PhD and/or MD in biomedical informatics, bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, public health informatics, healthcare management, computer science, medicine, or related disciplines. For applicants at the associate or full professor level, a strong track record of teaching at the graduate level, extramural funding and published research is required. For applicants at the assistant professor level, a strong record of research publications and potential for obtaining extramural funding are required. Candidates who are likely to develop collaborative research with other SBMI faculty and faculty at UTHealth are preferred.

All interested parties should provide their curriculum vitae with the names of three references along with a letter describing applicant's qualifications and career goals. Also, please provide a research and teaching statement.

SALARY: Competitive and dependent upon qualifications and experience.

APPOINTMENT/BENEFITS: These positions are 12-month full-time appointments in the tenure-track.

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