Tenured/Tenure-Track: Open Rank - Clinical Nutrition

The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) at Texas A&M University is excited to invite applicants for a full-time, 11-month tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor in clinical nutrition with an anticipated start in the Spring or Summer of 2025. Our Clinical Nutrition Service is part of the Gastrointestinal Laboratory and has 1 tenure-track clinical nutritionist and one licensed veterinary technician with specialization in clinical nutrition. Clinical Nutrition Service faculty play a critical role in student education, patient care, and scholarship.

The successful candidate will devote a major portion of their time (35% effort) to research, clinical instruction, and patient care (40%) in the GI Lab and the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH). The remaining time will be devoted to integrative classroom and laboratory teaching (15%) and service (10%). Clinical responsibilities will include primary management of nutrition cases, instruction of veterinary students and technicians, and mentorship of interns and residents. Classroom and laboratory teaching responsibilities will include the education of professional students in our integrated curriculum and opportunities to interface with graduate students across multiple disciplines. Active supervision of house officers and in-depth participation in intern / resident training (including topic rounds, journal club, and backup support) is expected. Additionally, we expect the successful candidate to establish an impactful research program. Opportunities for rich research collaborations are plentiful, within the Gastrointestinal Laboratory, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and beyond. Texas A&M has a strong biomedical engineering program, a world-class toxicology program, and several medical school campuses (both locally and in Houston). Teamwork is highly valued at Texas A&M University, and candidates are expected to demonstrate institutional citizenship that may include service to committees, working groups, and professional organizations. Faculty members are expected to commit to holding themselves and colleagues accountable to the VMBS code of professional conduct.

The VMTH is a spacious facility with sophisticated diagnostic and patient care equipment. The Small Animal Hospital of the VMTH has approximately 60 board-certified specialists in a wide variety of clinically relevant specialties as well as many technicians in areas such as imaging, surgery, critical care, internal medicine, anesthesia, cardiology, neurology, surgery, dentistry, and others. Capable personnel including, but not limited to talented ICU technicians, an active multidisciplinary interventional radiology service, three in-house pharmacists with compounding capability, and a clinical trials coordinator as well as a clinical trials technician.

A generous start-up package will be available commensurate with the clinical or scholarly needs and record of the individual. Also, the Department currently has more than 10 academic endowed Chairs that provide ongoing support of the chairholder’s research. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to interact with approximately 60 small animal faculty members, 40 large animal faculty members, and more than 100 faculty members in basic sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Beyond that Texas A&M currently has more than 4200 faculty members in a wide range of disciplines. Also, we have an active group of house officers that includes more than 50 interns and residents from other medical and surgical disciplines. The Texas A&M University VMTH values employee quality of life and well-being as well as the sustainability of our missions.

Texas A&M University is the oldest public institution of higher education in Texas and the nation’s largest single university with more than 78,000 students (over 10,000 of whom are pursuing professional or graduate degrees) in residence at the College Station campus. Texas A&M University is a major research university with a growing international focus, and outstanding public and private support. The community of Bryan-College Station (BCS), population 250,000, is a growing and diverse college town with a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities, excellent public and private schools, and a relatively low cost of living. BCS is centered in the Texas Triangle, a megaregion consisting of the state’s five largest cities (Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, and Austin).

Applicants must have a DVM degree (or equivalent) and must be a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)-Clinical Nutrition or must have completed an ACVIM-Clinical Nutrition approved residency and have met the requirements to take the board examination in clinical nutrition. Applicants must be licensed or eligible for a regular or special license to practice veterinary medicine in the state of Texas.