Posting Summary
The Parker Health Group Division of Geriatrics a division within the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at RWJMS is recruiting tenured/tenuretrack faculty in aging research. The faculty hired under this position will advance the geriatric care knowledge base to support older adults and their families to manage health and aging and maximize their quality of life in community settings including private residences nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Successful candidate will have research expertise in understanding how to implement change and improvements in realworld settings. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to achieving health equity caregiving applied technology and assistive devices in aging and workforce development. Applicants with perspectives from clinical medicine public health medicine nursing psychology sociology social work or other related fields are encouraged to apply. Candidates must have a demonstrated commitment to working with underrepresented populations according to the NIH health disparities framework and a strong interest in working collaboratively with multidisciplinary groups of social and behavioral scientists clinicians and policy scholars. They must have a track record or high potential for federal NIH funding. The successful candidate will build a research program in developing assessing and/or implementing practical scalable solutions to improve the lives of older adults.