Assistant Professor Clinical Practice - Family Medicine

                                                                    Family Medicine Opportunity

Associate/Full Professor of Family Medicine

Clinical Trials Researcher, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences

University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas

Uni                             University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health) – Galveston, Texas

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health) – Galveston, Texas

UTMB Health is a $2.2 billion health science center comprised of five hospitals, an extensive network of outpatient clinics, and Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions, Public and Population Health, as well as a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, six institutes and over 25 exceptional research centers.  UTMB has a long and remarkable history of advancing health sciences education, research, and patient care. It was the first academic health center in Texas and is home to the state’s first schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health sciences. UTMB is also home to the Galveston National Laboratory, one of only two laboratories conducting research on a university campus at the BSL-4 level in the U.S. Overall research funding has increased 20% over the past five years to $157 million and UTMB ranks 52nd nationally in NIH funding among medical schools. UTMB also ranks as a five-star hospital by Vizient, for superior performance in providing high quality care. 

The UTMB Department of Family Medicine was founded as an independent department in 1971 but existed prior to that as a division of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health. Department of Family Medicine faculty provide medical care to Galveston County residents through its three clinics, located on the UTMB Galveston campus, on the western end of Galveston Island, and in Dickinson, Texas, and through its inpatient service at the new Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. Additional services are rendered at the Gulf Health Care Center nursing home and the Galveston County Health District's Coastal Health & Wellness. At present the Department includes programs in medical student education, residency, faculty development, and research.

This position will be a joint position with the Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences with the provision of direct patient care, teaching and supervision of Family Medicine residents and medical students and coverage of other clinical services as needed.  This faculty member will also serve as a Clinical Trials Researcher.

The Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences is free-standing within the John Sealy School of Medicine. It is a comprehensive vaccine institute that develops and supports multidisciplinary programs in discovery, basic and applied research; preclinical development; clinical trials/clinical research; public policy research, community outreach; and education and training. The mission of the SIVS is to improve human health by: Conducting research focused on the development and use of vaccine, developing public policy and education programs to foster vaccine acceptance, training investigators in the field of vaccine research and development

Key Responsibilities:

·         Serve as an investigator on vaccine clinical trials, which includes completing training, recruiting subjects, performing activities associated with the protocols inclu