Chair and Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science

NONPF; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences, headquartered in Memphis, is a statewide flagship public academic health institution. It recruits leaders to advance pharmacy education, clinical care, and translational research across six colleges and numerous affiliated sites.

The role oversees academic and clinical missions, mentors faculty, partners with health systems, and champions excellence in education, research, and service in a dynamic university environment.

Qualifications

• PharmD and/or PhD in a pharmacy-related field.
• Full Professor rank with distinguished scholarship and leadership.
• Experience mentoring faculty and building high-performing teams.
• Administrative experience with budgets, personnel management, and program oversight.
• Active pharmacy license or eligibility in Tennessee.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the department’s academic, clinical, research, and service missions.
• Recruit, mentor, develop, and retain outstanding faculty and staff while fostering transparency and collaboration.
• Oversee departmental planning, budgeting, operations, workload, and promotion/tenure processes.
• Advance excellence in PharmD, graduate, residency, fellowship, and continuing education programs.
• Strengthen clinical practice partnerships with health systems and affiliated institutions.
• Promote growth in clinical, translational, implementation, health outcomes, and practice-based research.
• Foster a collegial, transparent, high-performing academic culture.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Faculty development

Budgeting & planning

Mentoring

Collaboration

Academic governance

Education

PharmD

PhD (pharmacy-related field)

Job description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide strategic leadership for the department’s academic, clinical, research, and service missions.
• Recruit, mentor, develop, and retain outstanding faculty and staff while fostering a culture of transparency, professionalism, collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
• Oversee departmental planning, budgeting, operations, faculty workload, and promotion and tenure processes.
• Advance excellence in PharmD, graduate, residency, fellowship, and continuing professional education programs.
• Strengthen clinical practice partnerships with health systems, community partners, professional organizations, and affiliated institutions.
• Promote growth in clinical, translational, implementation, health outcomes, and practice-based research.
• Foster a collegial, transparent, accountable, and high-performing academic culture.

EDUCATION: PharmD and/or PhD in a pharmacy-related field from an accredited program.

EXPERIENCE: Current rank of full professor or credentials sufficient for appointment as full professor. Distinguished record of scholarship, teaching, clinical practice, service, and/or academic leadership appropriate for a senior faculty appointment. Demonstrated success in mentoring faculty and building high-performing teams. Administrative experience with academic programs, clinical partnerships, budgets, personnel management, or organizational leadership. Commitment to student success, interprofessional education, faculty excellence, collaborative practice, and the advancement of pharmacy and translational sciences.

LICENSES: Active pharmacy license or eligibility for pharmacist licensure in Tennessee.

DEPARTMENTAL PREFERENCES:

• National recognition in clinical pharmacy, translational science, pharmacy practice, health outcomes, implementation science, or a related field.
• Evidence of successful external funding, especially federal funding sources (e.g., NIH), scholarly productivity, educational innovation, or leadership within professional organizations.
• Experience working across multiple campuses, practice sites, or partner institutions.
• Collaborative leadership style that supports transparency, trust, engagement, and shared success.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCES

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences is a statewide flagship, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering collaborative education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UT Health Sciences contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Sciences is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT’s doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UT Health Sciences spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UT Health Sciences is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state’s largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs.

Located in West Tennessee on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis is the second-largest city in the state and among the largest cities in the Southeast. The Greater Memphis metropolitan area has more than 1.3 million residents, and the city ranks among those with the lowest cost of living in the country. It is home to a vibrant restaurant scene, a revitalized Downtown, the Midtown Arts District, many scenic neighborhoods, an active medical district, and a burgeoning airport in the midst of a $214 million modernization.

Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley’s Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.