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The University of Memphis is a comprehensive urban university and is classified as a Carnegie Doctoral Research Extensive public institution. There are six colleges and four professional schools, enrolling approximately 20,000 students of which 4,300 are in graduate programs. Opportunities exist for collaboration with various University research centers including the FedEx Institute of Technology, W. Harry Feinstone Center for Genomic Research, Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, and the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy.
Position Title:
Assistant or Associate Professor level depending on prior experience and time in rank.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Tenure track 9-month academic position in biostatistics at the Assistant or Associate Professor level depending on prior experience and time in rank. Expertise in performing a wide range of statistical data analyses and modeling approaches is required, along with knowledge and experience using multiple standard programs such as SAS, SPSS, R, and STATA. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and mentor students in our MPH and doctoral programs, to have a strong record of peer-review scholarship and funded research, and to contribute to the further development of the School of Public Health.
Position Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Applicants must have a doctoral degree in biostatistics and experience commensurate with academic rank. Those with a doctoral degree in a closely related field and relevant professional experience are also encouraged to apply. Demonstrated methodological expertise in complex multi-level modeling, bioinformatics or health informatics is desirable but not required. Applied experience with analyses of birth cohorts and/or longitudinal studies of childhood obesity is desirable but not required.
Salary Range:
Benefits:
The University has allocated generous support for this position to help develop a program in health informatics in conjunction with the Memphis Research Consortium (http://www.memphisresearchconsortium.org) as part of $10 million state funding that establishes the opportunity for supporting research within the areas of childhood obesity, informatics, systems modeling, and behavioral epidemiology to address key areas of focus in children's health improvement, clinical and behavioral informatics, and public health genomics. Collaborative agreements allow for cross-institutional work with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as well as partnerships with Baptist Memorial Health Care, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and other community health clinics and systems.
Web Site:
http://www.memphis.edu/sph/
Application Address:
https://workforum.memphis.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1343104012343
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Application Deadline:
May Continue Until Filled
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