Research Faculty, Center for Sleep & Circadian Rhythms

Department:

36621 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Nursing Psychiatric

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday to Friday, First Shift

Pay Range

$0.00 - $0.00

Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB) are seeking research faculty to join their emerging Center for Sleep & Circadian Rhythms. This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving and rapidly growing medical school and academic health system in a beautiful, vibrant, diverse and affordable community. 

 

The ideal candidate is a scientist or clinician-scientist at the level of Associate Professor or Professor (could be PhD, MD or MD/PhD) with expertise in epidemiology, behavioral sleep medicine, or clinical psychology. The faculty appointment would reside in an individual department based on the primary specialty of the candidate, with relevant joint appointments in related departments to foster interdisciplinary and translational research. If a team will accompany an applicant, departmental recruitments would be discussed with chairs to fund additional faculty.  

Center Goals: A main goal of the Center is to develop a nationally-recognized center for sleep and rhythms research, capitalizing on the research strengths at Wake Forest and access to the large population served by the Advocate Health system, with its shared electronic medical record and single IRB. The short-term goals of the Center are to:  

• Recruit a team of experts with skills that are generalizable across multiple areas of sleep and rhythms research.  

• Create a centralized resource of sleep and rhythms expertise and technologies for use throughout the Enterprise (both research and clinical domains), and serve as a coordinating ‘hub’ for bringing together different investigators and organizational units involved in sleep- and rhythms-related research and clinical practice.  

• Oversee development of center grants, training grants, and clinical trials related to the study of sleep and rhythms and their disorders.  

• Pilot new ideas with input from community and organizational partners.  

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s sleep center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. It has eight adult and two pediatric sleep beds. In Charlotte, Atrium Health offers the largest comprehensive sleep center in the Carolinas, with 14 sleep testing locations and 25 board certified sleep specialists seeing over 20,000 patient visits annually across the region. 

 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 

 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health (www.WakeHealth.edu) is a nationally recognized academic health system in Winston-Salem, NC, with an integrated enterprise serving 24 counties in NC and Virginia. It comprises a regional clinical system with more than 300 locations, 2,100 physicians and 1,535 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine; and Wake Forest Innovations, which promotes the commercialization of research discoveries.  

 

This is a time of tremendous growth for Wake Forest. In 2020, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health