Lecturer Health Informatics

Position Summary
The Department of BioHealth Informatics Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering at IUPUI invites applicants for a Lecturer appointment in the Health Informatics Program. Exceptional instructors are being sought to join our fastgrowing department. The responsibilities of the position include teaching in the Health Informatics Program developing courses for the traditional classroom setting computer labs and for online education; help setting program goals developing and continually updating the curriculum and training activities; contributing to the recruitment and marketing of the program; interviewing evaluating and advising students; engaging in scholarly activity; serving as a member of the school and departmental committees; maintaining current knowledge in the field through active participation in professional organizations collaboration practice and research; and serving on professional committees. The appointment can begin immediately on the IUPUI campus but will remain open until filled. As the states premier urban research institution IUPUI is committed to being a welcoming campus community that reflects and enacts the values of diversity equity and inclusion that inform academic excellence. We seek candidates who will not only enhance our representational diversity but whose research teaching and community engagement efforts contribute to diverse equitable and inclusive learning and working environments for our students staff and faculty. IUPUI condemns racism in all its forms and has taken an antiracist stance that moves beyond mere statements to interrogating its policies procedures and practices. We hope to identify individuals who will assist in our mission to dismantle racism so that everyone has the opportunity to succeed at IUPUI . IU offers an exciting track for advancement for nontenure track faculty devoted to teaching: Lecturer faculty who meet school and campus criteria may apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer and even ultimately Professor of Teaching. See the schools criteria here and the IUPUI Faculty Guide for more information. Promotion requires documented evidence that the candidate has met IUPUI school and departmental University offers a competitive and wideranging array of benefits to full time faculty including health dental and life insurance retirement contribution and tuition assistance. An overview of these is available at . About the Department of BioHealth Informatics The Department of BioHealth Informatics BHI is home to a dynamic and interdisciplinary group of 11 faculty members and over 300 students across its Health Informatics Bioinformatics Biomedical Informatics BMI and Health Information Management HIM programs. The Department offers a B.S. in HIM a B.S. in BMI an M.S. in Health Informatics an M.S. in Bioinformatics seven Graduate Certificates a Ph.D. in Informatics Health and Biomedical Informatics Track and a Ph.D. in Informatics Bioinformatics Track. The faculty in the department conduct groundbreaking externallyfunded (e.g. NIH NSF PCORI VA and AHRQ research in the areas of clinical and health informatics systems interventions community participatory research humancomputer interaction usability mobile technology and bioinformatics. Indiana is home to large healthcare exchanges including Indiana Health Information Exchange IHIE and Michiana Health Info Network MHIN as well as multiple healthcare systems within Indiana. BHI enjoys close collaborations with other departments in the school and with the Regenstrief Institute a pioneering institution in healthcare information technologies. Other partnerships include the IU Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics CCBB the IU Center for Bioethics the VA Center for Health Information and Communication CHIC Indiana University Health (one of the largest health care organizations in the Midwest) the Schools of Nursing Dentistry and Fairbanks School of Public Health as well as the Purdue Schools of Engineering and Technology and Science. About the IU School of Informatics and Computing Indianapolis The Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering is the first completely new school in the United States devoted exclusively to Informatics and a range of its subdisciplines. With its formative national role in creating the nations largest Informatics Program on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses the school is the broadest and one of the largest information/computing schools in the U.S. At IUPUI the school also has strong ties with the health and life sciences in the areas of health data exchange clinical decision support consumer health informatics integrated health information systems and interactive health information technologies. The school provides stateoftheart facilities including fully equipped classrooms media and gaming labs humancomputer interaction research labs usability and mobile development labs ample research facilities and studios for sound design and interactive media production. Access to advanced highresolution wallsized displays and virtual environments are also available within the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex. For additional information about the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing including degrees course descriptions plans of study and faculty research please see . Fostering an inclusive environment makes us stronger. The Luddy School at IUPUI draws on the strengths of a diverse community of students faculty and staff to enrich the educational experience broaden participation in computing and meet the needs of emerging technology. The Luddy School at IUPUI is committed to actively recruiting and retaining students faculty and staff from all backgrounds and cultures to join the next generation of innovators. We welcome what every individual brings to our learning environmentsocially geographically and in thought and experience.