Assistant Professor

Department

SOM Wichita Department of Population Health

Population Health Faculty

Position Title

Assistant Professor

Job Family Group

Academic

Job Description Summary

The Department of Population Health seeks candidates of exceptional potential and emerging scholarship to enhance our research and educational portfolio by joining our faculty on the Wichita campus. This position is for 12-month, full-time appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor.

Located in the School of Medicine, the Department provides a robust, interdisciplinary environment in an academic medical center setting. With faculty on three campuses – Kansas City, Wichita, Salina – the Department is the academic home for nationally-ranked, accredited graduate educational programs leading to the MHSA and MPH, as well as the MSCR and PhD. We are committed to addressing rural and urban health inequities through strong partnerships with community organizations, government agencies and other parties in different communities- and across the care delivery continuum- across a rapidly growing, multicultural Midwest context. We seek faculty eager to build collaborations with our clinician colleagues at KU, community hospitals Via Christi and Wesley HCA, and social services organizations and other stakeholders in public health and healthcare.

Our faculty make meaningful contributions to all mission areas of the University: teaching, research scholarship, and service. Competitive candidates will have demonstrable content expertise and teaching capabilities. The Wichita campus values its strong ties to community both local and regional; research and scholarship in the public service is a hallmark of the Department of Population Health.

In addition to a strong record of partnership with state and regional health authorities, the Department has access to exceptional SOM resources to support diverse community engagement and recruitment, quantitative analytics and health informatics. Opportunities abound for collaboration through KUMC’s Frontiers Clinical & Translational Science Institute, the KU School of Health Professions, School of Nursing, KU Alzheimer’s Disease Center, and the KU Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Job Description

Required Qualifications:

Education: Doctorate in population health or related field (e.g. nursing, medicine or public health; health-related behavioral or social sciences)

Work Experience

• Articulated commitment to interdisciplinary graduate teaching and mentoring in respective methods and areas of expertise.
• Potential for extramural funding via participation in recent grants and/or contracts, appropriate to rank.
• Record of scholarship in peer-reviewed publications, appropriate to rank.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Work Experience:

• Demonstratable research focus
• Evidence of principal investigator status.
• Evidence of effective teaching relevant to graduate level courses
• Experience supervising and mentoring doctoral students.
  
  

Job Duties Outlined

• Maintain an ongoing program of research and training, with external funding, appropriate to expertise.
• Collaborate with other faculty members via interdisciplinary research teams.
• Teach and participate in graduate courses and curriculum development.
• Participate in the intellectual life of the Department and School of Medicine, e.g. faculty and departmental committees and activities. Provide other service to the school, university, profession, and community, as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Chair.
  
  

Required Documents

• CV
• Cover Letter addressing preparation and vision for graduate teaching, research, and service in our academic medical center setting
• Professional statement: please describe how your prior experience could contribute to our academic mission to encourage first-generation learners, those from rural communities and other backgrounds to advance science of population health (approx. 1 page)
• No more than 3 sample publications
• Name and contact information of 3 potential academic references. We will discuss with you prior to any contact.
  
  

If selected as a final candidate for this position, you may be required to complete the Association of American of Universities Representations and Warranties document and sign a release of records that will allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to conduct a further background check with former employers. A copy of the Representations and Warranties document can be found here.

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

Employee Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time