Division Chief for Pulmonology & Critical Care

The Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin is seeking an exceptional Pulmonology & Critical Care leader to join the Department of Medicine as the Division Chief for Pulmonology & Critical Care. Successful applicants will be eligible for appointment at the Associate or Professor level, tenure track and should have significant expertise in medical education, clinical program development, and scholarship. Applicants must be board-certified in Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine.

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Role of the Division Chief

The Division Chief will collaborate with key internal and external partners and report to the Chair of Internal Medicine. They will be responsible for designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving all aspects of the pulmonology and critical care medicine experience. Additionally, the Chief will work with the Associate Chairs and Department Director on initiatives related to our clinical, educational, research, and faculty development missions.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Recruiting and mentoring outstanding faculty physician and non-physician pulmonary and critical care medicine providers, including annual appraisement and promotion and tenure activities.
• Collaborating with UT Health Austin, Dell Seton Medical Center, and Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, community health systems and other Dell Med clinical leaders and partners to develop new models of care and deliver outstanding care.
• Working closely with academic leaders of the Dell Medical School and Department to grow an innovative, highly successful pulmonology and critical care medicine fellowship.
• Working with students, residents, and fellows in our clinical settings.
• Communicating and coordinating with leaders in the Department and school to ensure excellent undergraduate education in general and pulmonology and critical care medicine.
• Creating a supportive environment for, and collaboration with, investigators to conduct pulmonology and critical care medicine research that advances the aims for research-focused faculty as well as the division through recruitment of research faculty and setting the agenda for research at the division level.

Benefits:

• Full comprehensive benefits
• Retirement plan TRS/ORP
• PTO
• CME
• Professional development assistance
• relocation assistance