Faculty Position in Artificial Intelligence-Department of Surgery

Mayo Clinics Department of Surgery in Rochester MN and Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics are recruiting for a Career Scientist position. The Career Scientist position is a tenureequivalent position for a Principal Investigator to develop and run an independent research program with a joint appointment in the Departments of Surgery and Artificial Intelligence/Informatics. The primary focus of the Investigators research endeavors should be broadly within the field of artificial intelligence with a desire to translate findings into healthcare specific uses. Specialization/focus in any aspect of artificial intelligence will be considered. It is anticipated that in addition to an independent research program the successful candidate will assist in developing the strategies specific to discovery research and deploying AI approaches within the Department of Surgery.

The successful candidate will be an emerging leader in the field of AI and will have expertise and experience to lead research projects to design develop and enhance AI/ML algorithms and models using extensive healthcare data sets. The successful candidate will ensure models are interpretable unbiased and clinically valid. Success will be measured by securing extramural funding as PI; providing teamscience leadership on impactful studies; building tools with practice impact; mentoring team members that include junior faculty postdoctoral fellows and allied health staff; leading national efforts such as scientific committees or national societies; and providing educational contributions within and outside of Mayo Clinic.

The Department of Surgery

The Department of Surgery in Rochester MN is made up of over 100 surgeons across 10 clinical divisions performing more than 25000 operations per year. This quaternary referral practice cares for the most complex and advanced cases in the country and world. In addition to the highvolume clinical practice the Department maintains robust educational and research programs. The educational programs include more than 50 surgical residents numerous clinical fellows and visiting research trainees. The research shield within the Department encompasses basic/discovery translational and clinical research. Support for investigators includes dedicated research administrators research protocol specialists clinical research coordinators and administrative support. The Surgical Clinical Research Office maintains an active clinical trial portfolio of more than 80 trials and recruits more than 900 patients annually to clinical trials. The Department has a robust data infrastructure to support the position including access to dozens of high quality organized and manually validated institutional and national datasets. The candidate will have access to structured and unstructured (e.g. text) clinical data crosssectional imaging data patient photos operative videos clinical notes and robotic/device data. In addition the Department has a strong history of innovation and strongly supports commercialization opportunities. Dedicated server space and access to highly motivated trainees and collaborators is available.

The Department of AI & Informatics (joint appointment)

Mayo Clinic was recently named as the No. 1 hospital leading in artificial intelligence readiness according to CB Insights. Mayo ClinicsDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Informaticsincludes clinical and research faculty as well as operational staff who engage in the use of informatics and digital technology to improve human health.

The department promotes collaborative research for advancing the methods applications and infrastructure in digital medicine with the emphasis on the synergy of people processes and technology representing a multidisciplinary unification based on biomedical computational and social sciences. Research in the department is focused on topics including artificial intelligence modeling clinical research informatics knowledge induction and dissemination for clinical practice precision medicine informatics quantitative medicine and many more.

Mayo Clinic

With an 83000person workforce Mayo Clinic cares for more than 1.4 million people each year with serious or complex illnesses from all 50 U.S. states and 135 countries. Mayo Clinic is the largest notforprofit multidisciplinary academic medical center in the world with over 4000 physicians and scientists in an integrated multicampus system spanning the globe. The unified mission at Mayo Clinic is to provide the best patient care backed by our expertise and supported by innovation in education research and practice to bring hope and healing in times of need. We embrace collegial relationships among campuses (Arizona Florida and Minnesota) allowing for best practices and innovation to help solve the most serious complex medical challengesone patient at a time.

Scientists and physicians atMayo Clinic in Minnesotaconduct innovative research across the spectrum of medicine translating their discoveries into new treatments that benefit patients. From basic science studies to clinical trials and beyond researchers in laboratories centers and programs collaborate to find answers to medicines most difficult questions. Knowing that this teamwork improves and speeds discovery researchers collaborate with fellow scientists nationally and internationally as they mentor the next generation of researchers.

We support avibrant and diverse research enterprise with programs in basic translational clinical population and data sciences. In 2024 the institution received over $754 million in extramural research awards supplemented with over $517 million of institutional support. Laboratories and shared resource facilitiesare stateoftheart including those for biomolecular analysis molecular development data analytics specimen processing and structural testing and imaging. Mayo Clinic supports innovation and has a wealth of resources available including an integrated health record and collaboration with top specialists.

Rochester Minnesota

Mayo Clinic is located in the heart of downtownRochester Minnesota a dynamic city just 75 minutes south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The city is consistently ranked among the best places to live in the United States because of its affordable cost of living healthy lifestyle excellent school systems and exceptionally high quality of life.Rochesteris changing to become the worlds premier destination medical center as new buildings fill the skyline that pave the way for initiatives that are unleashing fresh possibilities and make the city a fantastic place to learn live and by its culture of caring spirit of innovation and fascinating history Rochester is renowned for its scenic beauty relaxing pace and abundant dining shopping and entertainment options.

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