Associate Chair of Research ACR
Associate Chair of Research ACR
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The Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Dell Medical School is seeking candidates for the position of Associate Chair of Research (ACR). The ACR plays a key role in bidirectional communication of research needs strategy accomplishments and works in progress with the department Chair and Vice Dean for Research. The ACR will be responsible for the full spectrum of research activities within the Department to shape the overall objectives and of Dell Meds research strategy within the context of departmental needs and goals.
About Dell Medical School and the University of Texas at Austin Medical Center
As part of The University of Texas at Austin one of the nations leading research universities the Dell Medical School pursues innovation in the redesign of healthcare delivery excellence in healthcare research and programs in interdisciplinary and interprofessional education. It is the fifth medical school in the UT System and the first medical school established in nearly five decades by a member of the Association of American Universities an organization of leading public and private research universities.
The University of Texas Medical Center anchored by Dell Medical School is defining the future of health. Announced in August 2023 with planning and implementation underway The University of Texas Medical Center will cement Austin as a premier destination for health care alongside other major Texas cities. With two new stateoftheart hospitals A UT specialty hospital and a cancer center being built by MD Anderson plus the academic and research expertise of UT The University of Texas Medical Center will provide the integrated worldclass care that is a hallmark of academic medicine.
The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to excellence within the learning health system.
About the Department of Internal Medicine
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About the Position
The specic roles and responsibilities of the ACR:
Leadership Strategy and Impact
- Represents the department and Department Chair in all research matters.
- Serves as the point of contact between the department including Department Chair and investigators and the Office of the Vice Dean for Research to inform guidelines policies and strategic directions.
- Promotes highimpact research to improve health and healthcare throughout Central Texas.
- Aligns departmental research efforts to establish UT Medicine as the premier leader in research discovery translation and implementation.
- Works with the other ACRs to develop and execute Dell Meds research strategy.
- Facilitates and enables joint research efforts and team science across Dell Med departments UT Austin Colleges and Schools and outside partners.
- Oversees collecting assembling and presenting departmental research benchmarks and impact.
- Identifies and communicates departmental research accomplishments to leadership communications and other stakeholders as appropriate.
Resource Management Operations and Infrastructure
- Represents the department at all required meetings organized by the Office of Research.
- Endorses and approves departmental clinical trials IRB biosafety and IACUC applications and protocols. This includes the feasibility and resource needs of projects.
- The ACR shares responsibility with departmental investigators and the Oce of Research to ensure all research activities adhere to ethical standards regulatory requirements institutional policies and scientic integrity.
- The ACR will coordinate at a departmental level responses to issues of noncompliance and collaborates with relevant internal and external regulatory bodies to address compliance issues and facilitate research integrity.
- Will identify and communicate departmental resource needs including enhancing and maintaining departmental research infrastructure and space to the Office of the Vice Dean.
- Ensures faculty use appropriate channels of approval and negotiation for all sponsored projects whether federal industry or donor sponsored.
- Assists in the oversight of systems design to facilitate stewardship of departmental and common resources.
Funding and Grant Management
- Assists in identification and targeted dissemination of funding opportunities to departmental faculty.
- Will determine Dell Med or partner feasibility deadlines and appropriate resourcing for extramural funding applications.
- Ensures departmental awareness and compliance with application guidelines deadlines and reassurances for proposals.
- Ensures research faculty follow all notification guidelines to sponsored projects administration and is involved in communication around any missed deadlines.
- Identifies early career researchers and ensures mentorship and tracking to facilitate successful transition to R stage.
- Identifies and tracks later career researchers and encourages resources and collaborations necessary to transition from smaller R awards to R01 from R01 to P and U awards and to sustain programs of research as needed.
- Facilitates organization of works in progress review of proposals and other events to facilitate success of the departments research program. Can include mock reviews.
Personnel Management
- Oversees departmental mentorship of early career research faculty.
- Assists with recruitment and on and/or offboarding of departmental research faculty.
- Provides promotion and tenure assistance for researchfocused faculty.
- Oversees stewardship for student resident and postdoctoral fellow research.
- Participates in research matchmaking for students.
- Identies potential research collaborators across Dell Med departments UT Austin Colleges and Schools and outside partners.
- MD or DO degree; board certified
- Strong track record of research productivity including NIH (or comparable independent) peerreviewed funding; significant experience obtaining and administering extramural funding from a range of sponsors.
- Must have a proven track record of collaborating with supporting and developing multiple members of a clinical research department including writing and administering complex grants.
- Experience in guiding and mentoring junior faculty fellows resident physicians and medical students in academic activities.
- Academic rank commensurate to experience.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
