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The Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) at the University of Washington (UW) is looking for a full-time faculty at the Professor Without Tenure (Job Code 0111) or Associate Professor Without Tenure (Job Code 0112) levels. The new faculty will serve as Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) and join our current faculty and students in growing both the scholarship and practice/service aspects of our clinical/translational research informatics program. The effort will be distributed across the following areas: ~30% FTE maintaining an independent research program, ~60% FTE serving as CRIO for UW Medicine and the Biomedical Informatics Core Director of the UW CTSA and ~10% FTE serving as the Director of the UW Institute for Medical Data Science (established in 2021). This faculty position works closely with eleven other BIME faculty who also engage in scholarship, education in BIME and operation roles within UW Medicine IT Services in areas of clinical informatics, analytics, and clinical/translational research informatics. Associate Professors and Professors hold indefinite appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). Faculty with 12-month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12-month period (July-June), meaning the equivalent of one month is available for paid time off. The faculty's research and practice activities will build on existing clinical/translational research informatics scholarship and practice in the context of a) our CTSA (the Institute of Translational Health Sciences), b) our clinical computing operations group (UW Medicine Information Technology Services, UWM ITS), c) the Institute for Medical Data Science, d) the ongoing research and educational programs in the BIME department. The CRIO role is responsible for developing, evolving, and overseeing an organization-wide UW Medicine and CTSA research IT strategy. This position exercises substantial discretion, independent judgment, and decision-making authority in applying the responsibilities called for. Responsibilities are to be carried out at a significantly high level of technical expertise; providing authoritative advice and counsel to the Chief Information Officer as well as UW Medicine research leadership; working with the clinical translational researcher and stakeholder community. The CRIO role provides strategic and tactical leadership and oversees the Director of Research IT (RIT) and the members of the UWM ITS RIT team (~50 staff). The leadership role in the Institute for Medical Data Sciences (IMDS) will focus on leading the development of a 2 nd generation strategic plan for the IMDS including fund raising while maintaining and expanding current IMDS activities. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. The department is seeking multidisciplinary faculty with backgrounds in foundational and/or applied biomedical informatics research who are interested in scholarship, teaching and practice in a highly collaborative academic setting. We are seeking candidates with an understanding of the needs of the research community as well as what it takes to run an IT service line. Overall, the position is envisioned as ~60% FTE practice of research informatics and ~40% FTE between grant funded scholarship and the Institute for Medical Data Sciences. Teaching roles are envisioned to include guest lectures and seminars, as well as advising biomedical informatics graduate students and postdocs. The base salary range for this position will be $16,284 to $28,436 per month, commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination. Required Qualifications: Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or foreign equivalent) in a biomedical informatics or another relevant discipline. An M.D. (or foreign equivalent) with relevant significant formal biomedical informatics-related training, scholarship, and practice is also acceptable. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have a grant funded research portfolio relevant to clinical/translational research informatics. Candidates must also have at least 5 years of documented experience with the practice of research informatics. Candidates must have at least 2 years of documented leadership experience in operational research IT in support of clinical/translational researchers. Other positive factors for consideration: Ideally candidates will have 10 years of demonstrated research IT leadership. Highly desirable is expertise in biomedical data science, machine learning, biomedical artificial intelligence, and/or large language models and generative AI systems. Experience teaching informatics to diverse audiences is welcomed. Interested applicants should submit the following: Letter of Intent/Personal Statement Teaching Statement Diversity Statement Your CV List of References University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status. #J-18808-Ljbffr University of Washington

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