Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Sciences

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Job Description

Reporting directly to the Dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, this individual will be fully resourced to organize the efforts of the medical college to build the necessary team and to implement the necessary infrastructure and programs that will prepare SKMC for a competitive CTSA application within 1-2 years.

Founded in 1824, Jefferson Medical College, now Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC), has a long history of research and innovation. The medical school currently has over $66 million in total NIH awards and has over $200 million in research expenditures. There are over 400 investigators leading over 1,200 studies. The organization has strong research programs in basic, clinical, health service and population health. The position would look to organize these assets, address gaps and build necessary partnerships to achieve the goal of becoming a CTSA hub and ultimately strategically unite the business of healthcare with the academic and scientific base to enhance medical education and community impact.

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

• Organize SKMC research assets, address gaps and build necessary partnerships to achieve the goal of becoming a CTSA hub.

• Identify opportunities to strategically unite the business of healthcare with the academic and scientific base to enhance medical education and community impact.

• Provide leadership to expand and sustain SKMC's translational research portfolio, including ongoing planning, monitoring, analysis and assessment.

• Oversee dissemination and implementation activities to support innovative approaches to identifying and developing strategies to promote adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies into routine health care and public health settings to improve the impact on population health.

• Identify opportunities to cultivate an environment where CTS and training for clinical research professionals can flourish.

• Identify opportunities to build a community of scientists committed to diversity and inclusive excellence and to advance and sustain a scientific environment and institutional culture that positively impacts faculty development, retention, progression, and eventual promotion.

Key Qualifications & Experiences

• An MD/DO/MD-PhD or equivalent international degree, current board certification, and licensed/eligibility to practice in the state of Pennsylvania.

• National recognition as a senior physician-scientist with demonstrated leadership in large programs in T3 and T4 translational research.

• Experience and involvement in an ongoing CTSA program or a program of similar caliber is strongly preferred.

• Experience leading scientific programs demonstrated by a strong track record of NIH-funding.

• Experience in creating, providing and disseminating innovative research programs and partnerships within an organization, between organizations and with communities to address health equity and deliver the benefits of translational research.

• Experience mentoring and developing trainees and junior faculty members in research careers that enhances equity.

• Experience building comprehensive medical research and educational programs with administrative leadership (including experience as a dean, chair, senior associate dean, center/institute director or comparable position) in a complex academic medical environment.

• Academic accomplishments which merit appointment at the rank of full professor at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Procedure for Candidacy

All applications, inquiries, expressions of interest, and recommendations should be directed to Heather Johnson, Director of Dean's Office Special Initiatives - Sidney Kimmel Medical College via email; Heather.Johnson3@jefferson.edu.

A completed application must contain the following documents:

• Statement of Interest addressing experiences in achieving leadership agendas and demonstrating the desired qualities and characteristics

• A current curriculum vitae

Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled, however, applications received by September 15th, 2024will receive full consideration.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.