Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor

Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy

Weill Cornell Medical College/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital

The Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, a multi-departmental entity at Weill Cornell Medical College dedicated to improving health care particularly through the use of informatics and technology, is seeking an outstanding faculty member to take a leadership role in developing research. The individual will work in close collaboration with faculty of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy as well as other colleagues at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. An important mission of the Center is to conduct effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and comparative effectiveness evaluations of health care policies, particularly information technology based policies including the medical home model. The Center has extensive grant funding from federal, state, and foundation sources for health policy-relevant research.

The position requires training in quantitative health services research. Experience designing and building health care data sets. Successful candidates will have advanced knowledge of health care data and interest in or experience with building data sets using multiple data types including Medicare, Medicaid and/or commercial claims as well as electronic health record data. Successful candidates will have a strong interest in quantitative evaluation methods including an interest in economic outcomes.

The faculty member will receive a faculty appointment to Weill Cornell Medical College as an Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on experience), with the expectation that he or she will advance in academic rank consistent with the policies of the faculty.

The successful candidate will have an MD with a research fellowship and/or a Ph.D. in health services research, biostatistics, economics, health policy, or a relevant discipline. Experience with SAS programming and working with medical claims data is required. Knowledge of health policy and medical care is needed. MDs will be board eligible/certified in their specialty field.

Please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and names of three professional references to the email address below:

Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy

425 East 61st Street, Suite 301 / New York, NY 10065

The Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at UCLA invite applications for a tenure-track position at Associate or Full Professor rank funded by the University of California.  We are searching for a scholar who conducts health services or related research with implications for health.  The successful candidate will be expected to teach in their area of expertise to medical students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows.  We welcome applications from outstanding scholars with M.D., Ph.D. or both degrees, in the full range of disciplines.

Qualification for the appointment requires superior intellectual attainment, as evidenced both in teaching and in research or other creative achievement.  UCLA is committed to excellence and equity in every facet of its mission. Teaching, research, professional and public service contributions that promote diversity and equal opportunity are encouraged and given recognition in the evaluation of the candidate’s qualifications.

The position will provide opportunities to collaborate with scientists and other scholars throughout UCLA. The Division has a diverse faculty in ethnicity and gender with a strong history of conducting high impact scholarship in a broad spectrum of areas, including work in areas related to access to health care, community-engaged research in health, disparities in and social determinants of health, economics of health and health care (including cost, cost-effectiveness, and utilization of services), health outcomes assessment (including patient-centered outcomes), medical education, medical informatics, medical ethics, and quality of care.

Interested individuals should submit by email a letter stating their reason for interest in the position and their curriculum vitae by January 16th 2012 to Ron D. Hays, Ph.D. (drhays@ucla.edu).  Questions can be directed to Dr. Hays at 310-794-2294 .

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.