The Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, invites applications for a full-time faculty position to serve as the Assistant/Associate Director of Medical Microbiology. The academic appointment may be at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level, in the Health Sciences (HS) Clinical or Clinical X series, depending on experience and extent of research and teaching effort. Both HS and Clinical X faculty provide patient care; teach fellows, residents, and medical students; perform public and University service; and contribute to scholarly activities. Clinical X faculty are expected to conduct more substantial research and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. An academic appointment in the Clinical X series confers membership in the UCI Academic Senate.
Candidates should have an MD, DO or PhD degree and significant experience and/or fellowship training in clinical microbiology. Applicants with an MD or DO degree should be eligible for a California medical license and be board certified in Clinical Pathology and preferably also in Clinical Microbiology, whereas those with a PhD degree should have American Board of Medical Microbiology certification or eligibility. Applicants with expertise in diagnostic molecular microbiology will be highly considered.
The successful applicant will have a track record of working cooperatively and collegially within an academic and clinical environment and will contribute to the teaching, clinical service, and research missions of the department. Along with the Director of Medical Microbiology and other department leaders responsibilities include all administrative and regulatory requirements of managing a full service clinical microbiology laboratory, new test implementation, and teaching of residents, fellows, and professional students.
This position will serve the microbiology laboratory needs of UCI Health which includes the 400+ bed state-of-the-art tertiary/quaternary care Douglas hospital located in the city of Orange, a new hospital and outpatient complex on the Irvine campus, and several outpatient clinics throughout Orange County.
Requirements - All applicants must have significant experience and/or fellowship training in clinical microbiology, must be board-certified or board-eligible in Clinical Pathology or the American Board of Medical Microbiology; and if an MD, must hold or qualify for a medical license in the State of California. Salary and rank are commensurate with experience.
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