Internal Medicine Associate Professor- College of Medicine

Tenure-track Associate or Full Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Center for Health System Improvement, and Tennessee Population Health Consortium 

The University of Tennessee Health Center, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine in Memphis, TN is seeking candidates for a Full- time, Associate Professor position. This is a tenure track position. Teaching/Research/clinic responsibilities in addition to staffing admission include supervising procedures when needed, being available for resident questions regarding cross-cover or admissions, and giving feedback.

We are seeking an experienced clinician-investigator with a passion for patient-centered outcomes, quality improvement (QI), and population health research to join a growing and dynamic team of faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Center for Health System Improvement, and Tennessee Population Health Consortium, and will have opportunity to have a secondary appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine. We are seeking a faculty member to focus primarily on conducting pragmatic clinical and population health research. The Center serves as the research core of the Tennessee Population Health Consortium, a statewide primary care extension service dedicated to strengthening primary and preventive care and improving the health of Tennesseans. The candidate will work in collaboration with major health systems and community health centers across Tennessee to improve care for vulnerable populations. The clinician-investigator will care for patients, conduct pragmatic clinical and health services research, and train and supervise residents, fellows, and health policy and outcomes research MS and PhD students. Clinical responsibilities will be based at Regional One Health (ROH) through UT Regional One Physicians and will include oversight of medical students and residents in the ROH Outpatient Center Internal Medicine Clinic. The candidate will particularly help support Ql activities at ROH and its efforts to extend essential primary and preventive care into the community. Candidates should have a strong interest in one or more of these areas: patient-centered outcomes research; population health; QI; comparative effectiveness; health care delivery; health information technology; disparities; and improving care for patients with obesity, diabetes, or other chronic diseases.

Successful candidates will hold an M.D. with an additional M.P.H., Ph.D., or equivalent degree; demonstrated scientific accomplishment; board certification/board eligibility in internal medicine; excellent oral and written communication skills; and ability to acquire sustained, external, investigator-initiated research funding. 

Highly Desirable Qualifications: Preference will be given to applicants who have conducted scholarly work in health services and/or pragmatic clinical research with practical implications for clinical practice and/or population health, to candidates who can lead multidisciplinary research teams to develop and test interventions to improve health systems serving vulnerable populations, and to candidates who have participated in or helped lead successful primary care and/or population health research programs. 

About CHSI: The UTHSC Center for Health System Improvement improves health and health care in the Mid-South region by supporting interdisciplinary health systems research, evaluating innovative regional health and health care QI efforts, championing patient-centered outcomes research, and promoting sustainable community-driven health system change. The CHSI currently has four core faculty based in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and/or Department of Preventive Medicine and is rapidly expanding. 

About Tennessee Population Health Consortium: The Tennessee Population Health Consortium is a statewide partnership including the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and its Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville campuses; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and partnering academic institutions, health systems, health plans, QI organizations, providers, and patients. The Consortium aims to strengthen primary and preventive care to measurably improve population health and health equity in Tennessee. The Consortium's signature initiative-the Tennessee Heart Health Network funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)-is developing sustainable, statewide QI support capacity for primary care. This Network of primary care practices is working together to promote and disseminate evidence-based approaches to address social determinants underlying adverse cardiovascular outcomes and disparities in collaboration with community health centers serving Tennessee census tracts with