Rutgers New Jersey Medical School invites applications for the position of the Chair of Pediatrics. We are seeking an individual with strong leadership qualities and a record of accomplishment as a clinician and researcher to lead a department with a faculty possessing broad expertise in both clinical and basic sciences. We seek a dynamic individual who can manage and build the clinical enterprise, expand research, maintain the commitment to medical student training, and support medical student education.
With 30 full-time and 14 part-time faculty, current divisions in the Department include Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Allergy/Immunology/Infectious and Pulmonary Diseases, Ambulatory Pediatrics/Primary Care, Child Development, Child Life, Critical Care, Early Intervention, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Academic Pediatrics and Pediatric Education, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology, Hypertension, Lead Poisoning Program, Neonatology, Neurology, Pediatric Cardiology, and Pulmonology, and an Autism Center which provides diagnosis and comprehensive developmental evaluation and treatment of children, conducts population-based autism monitoring and identifies and provides intervention for early autism.
Minimum Education and Experience:
Candidate must be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, have or be eligible to apply for a NJ Medical License, CDS and DEA registrations.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.