Professor or Associate Professor without Tenure and Chief Data Officer (CDO)

Description

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 with an anticipated start date as early as March 1, 2026. The new faculty will serve as UW Medicine Chief Data Officer (CDO) and join our current faculty and students in growing both the scholarship and practice/service aspects of our informatics data, analytics and related AI programs. The effort will be distributed across the following areas: ~30% FTE maintaining an independent research program, ~ 70% FTE serving as CDO for UW Medicine. Optional Clinical Practice is available (up to 10%): candidates would be appointed to the appropriate clinical department, such as Medicine, Surgery, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, or other appropriate clinical department, with a joint appointment in BIME. This faculty position works closely with eleven other BIME faculty who also engage in operational roles within UW Medicine IT Services (UWM ITS) in areas of clinical informatics, analytics, and clinical/translational research informatics.

Scholarship, Practice and Teaching Context: University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. Overall, the position is envisioned as ~70% FTE practice of data/analytics/AI and ~30% FTE between grant funded scholarship. Teaching roles are envisioned to include guest lectures and seminars, as well as advising biomedical informatics graduate students and postdocs.  

Research and practice activities will build on existing data, analytics, text mining and AI scholarship and practice in the context of a) UWM ITS infrastructure which includes the Epic Cogito analytics stack, participation in Epic Cosmos and a 30+ year longitudinal UW Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse which is updated daily (tiered bronze, silver, gold type architecture), b) the UWM federated analytics model (20+ UWM ITS analysts, 80+ UWM affiliated developers), c) the analytics infrastructure and data services team (~70 FTE), d) the UW CTSA (the Institute of Translational Health Sciences) and UWM Research IT groups, e) our clinical computing operations group (UW Medicine Information Technology Services, UWM ITS), the Institute for Medical Data Science, g) the ongoing research and educational programs in the BIME department.  

UW Medicine Chief Data Officer Role: The Chief Data Officer (CDO) serves as the senior executive leader responsible for advancing UW Medicine’s enterprise analytics, data governance, data integration and artificial intelligence strategy. This role ensures that UW Medicine’s extensive data assets are leveraged to drive strategic decision-making, operational excellence, patient-centered care innovation, research, and education. As the institutional leader for data and AI, the CDO defines the vision for a data-driven organization, ensuring that actionable insights directly support UW Medicine’s mission of improving the health of the public. The CDO oversees the healthcare data and analytics group within UW Medicine IT Services, providing executive and technical leadership for data warehousing, reporting, decision support, AI/ML systems, and advanced analytics capabilities. The CDO dir