Open Rank Faculty-Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

University of Colorado; South Dakota; On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz is recruiting full-time faculty across open ranks to grow its Neuromuscular Section, with opportunities for academic promotion based on education, research, and clinical care. Responsibilities include clinical care, teaching, research, and service, with flexible allocation of time by the Section Head.

The department supports a robust neuromuscular program and a wide range of trials and educational activities.

Job description

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Section Job Title: Open Rank Faculty-Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor Position #: 00847217 - Requisition #: 41678

Job Summary:

The Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz is seeking to recruit a Full time, dynamic candidate to expand its clinical and/or basic science research programs within our Neuromuscular Section. The position is full-time faculty, with the opportunity for academic promotion, which is determined on criteria of demonstrated excellence in the areas of education, research, clinical care, and community service. We are seeking individuals who are collaborative, communicative, caring, detail oriented, organized, proactive, able to think critically, focused on quality, dedicated to personal growth, and highly motivated. This faculty position will work in the Neuromuscular section , which currently has 6 MDs, 4 APPs (2 Physician Assistants and 2 Genetic Counselors) and an ACGME neuromuscular fellow. Job duties in this faculty position will include clinical, teaching, research, and service responsibilities. The overall determination of research and clinical activities and allocation of time and effort will be subject to the determination of the Section Head.

Specific responsibilities:

• Clinical days involve patients with neuromuscular disorders. There will be opportunity to perform electrodiagnostic studies, biopsies and neuromuscular pathology on patients seen in clinic who need these tests and on other patients as allowable by demand and other personnel performing these studies and their schedules. There will be no inpatient attending responsibilities.
• General weeknight evening call (currently 5p-7a) on the general neurology service is provided by a rotating pool of UCH credentialed faculty (currently about once per month), but participation in a neuromuscular call rotation covering 5p-8p weeknights in required.
• Participation in all administrative/didactic meetings of the neuromuscular section is expected.
• Administrative responsibilities will include data entry into hospital systems, development of critical pathways, committee work, and projects aimed at improving the specialty and department mission.
• It is assumed the bulk of this non-clinical time will be spent working toward the production of scholarship activities.
• Attendance at meetings and educational events of the department and specialty programs is expected.
• This position will also work to develop our ultrasound program, educating trainees and building and expanding our service line.
• In addition, there will be involvement in the teaching of students, residents, and fellows (including the neuromuscular fellow), and in section and department-wide Quality and Performance Improvement projects.
• Other duties may be assigned as need arises.

Work Location:

Onsite - this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

Why Join Us:

The Department of Neurology provides ample research space, dedicated clinical, academic, and research support, and a busy clinical Neuromuscular program . The Neuromuscular multidisciplinary clinic is a Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and ALS Association (ALSA) Care Center as well as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA) Center of Excellence and serves as a regional referral center for an eleven-state referral area with ~3600 annual patient visits, ~2000 NCS/EMG studies and ~200 muscle and nerve biopsies. The program has additionally been recognized as a Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America 'Partner in Care', Inherited Neuropathies Consortium member, Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Clinical Trials Research Network member & center for research excellence, Myotonic Dystrophy Research Network member, GRASP-Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD) research consortium member, and RYR1 Foundation 'Expert in Care' site. We are also part of the DMD Center of Excellence at Children's Hospital Colorado and a member of the TREAT-NMD Alliance Neuromuscular Network. A competitive, combined ACGME-accredited Neuromuscular Medicine and UCNS-accredited Clinical Neuromuscular Pathology 1-year fellowship is offered. The program has made significant contributions in basic and applied neuromuscular clinical research and are currently operating 60+ active trials, including 15 research consortia trials. Clinical trials are integrated into daily patient encounters and allow patients access to novel therapies with support from a neuromuscular research program manager, 10 research coordinators and 2 research physical therapists. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education, and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent