Assistant Professor, Clinical Faculty Appointment - Colon & Rectal Surgery

🔍 United States, Texas, Houston, Houston (TX Med Ctr)

New

📁: Faculty

💼: Colon & Rectal Surgery 710338

📅   : 177783 Requisition #

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery is seeking to recruit an academic surgeon to join our team. The major criteria for appointment are excellence in the overall mix of clinical care, clinical teaching, scholarly activity that advances clinical medicine, and institutional service. We are actively recruiting faculty positions with eligibility for term tenure track or clinical faculty track appointments dependent upon the candidate’s interests and qualifications.

Prerequisites include board-certification or board-eligibility in Colon and Rectal Surgery or in Complex General Surgical Oncology with a focused experience in the multidisciplinary treatment of patients with Colon, Rectal, and Anal Cancer. The desired candidate will have a strong commitment to clinical excellence, mentorship, scholarship and teamwork.

Responsibilities will include providing clinical expertise in colon and rectal surgical care in a multidisciplinary setting, maintaining the programmatic excellence of our comprehensive colon and rectal cancer program, educating the trainees in our Advanced Colon and Rectal Surgical Oncology, Complex General Surgery Oncology, or affiliated residency and fellowship programs, and developing a robust clinical, health services, data and informatics, or translational science research program. The ideal candidate will have substantial scholarly activity and a high likelihood of obtaining extramural funding to support their scholarly activity.

Salary is competitive, with excellent compensation and benefits package provided.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement, tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html

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