Associate Professor or Professor WOT | Director, Division of Addictions | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Description

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) at the University of Washington is seeking a qualified individual to serve as Director of the Division of Addictions. The position may be supported, in part, by an endowment from the Nicole K. Engle Endowed Professorship for Addiction Medicine funded by the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions (GIBHS) pending approval of the Dean of the School of Medicine and the UW Board of Regents. If awarded, the endowed professorship will be an initial five-year appointment which is renewable at the discretion of the School of Medicine Dean (at the recommendation of the PBSCI Chair).

JOB SUMMARY AND STRUCTURE

The holder of this senior leadership role will be charged with providing leadership for an exceptional clinical, educational, and translational research program focused on improving the lives of individuals and families affected by substance use disorders, adapting or developing preventive or therapeutic approaches and solutions for individuals and families struggling with addiction problems, and facilitating productive collaboration among a diverse group of addiction researchers, clinicians, educators and policy makers who collectively make up the department’s Division of Addictions. The holder of this position is expected to make significant contributions to teaching and research in this field and to support and facilitate impactful contributions and collaboration of their colleagues.

We are looking for one full-time faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinician-teacher or faculty-scientist pathway. 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. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

This position will report to the Chair of PBSCI. Rank will be determined commensurate with experience and qualifications. The anticipated start date is September 1, 2025. Priority Review date as of July 1, 2025.

Division of Addictions

The Division of Addictions in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington is a collection of faculty members and staff housed in various Institutes, Centers, Programs and Labs with a broad range of expertise in Substance Use and Addiction Psychiatry. Faculty provide excellent behavioral health care and engage in innovative research, education and policy work. They have expertise across the entire age spectrum and in all areas -- including alcohol and opioid use disorders, publish in leading journals, pre-clinical and clinical research, serve on key editorial boards and research committees, and edit leading addictions reference texts in the field. Some of the areas of excellence include college and early age drinking, treatment trials for substance use disorders, integrated models of addiction and co-occurring mental illnesses, opioid and other medication-assisted treatment, studies in the neuroscience of addictions and the use of novel therapeutics in addiction psychiatry. Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/research/division-of-addictions/

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is an integral component of the UW School of Medicine and shares UW Medicine’s mission to ‘Improve the Health of the Public.’ We accomplish this by providing the best care we can today, conducting research to develop better treatments for tomorrow, and inspiring and training the next generation of mental health care professionals. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration and mutual respect. Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine with an annual operating budget in excess of $125 M and a research budget of approximately $60M.

As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, we are committed to improving access to psychiatric care and consultation throughout the greater Pacific Northwest. Our educational programs include a required medical student clerkship for 260 medical students per year at some 30 sites across the WWAMI region, a nationally competitive psychiatry residency program with more than 90 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idaho and Montana, subspecialty fellowships in addiction, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, perinatal mental health and geriatric psychiatry, a nationally renowned scientist-practitioner psychology internsh