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Bargaining Unit:

UUP

Job Summary:

The Department of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a part-time Clinical Assistant Professor (HS) or Assistant Professor / Director of the John Conley Division of Medical Ethics & Humanities.

This will be a part-time faculty position, at the Assistant Professor or Clinical Assistant Professor level. The Division is responsible for increasing awareness around emerging bioethical challenges in healthcare. Its mission is to foster an environment that provides leadership in education, scholarship, community engagement, research, and ethics support services to advance health equity and socially responsible fair and compassionate health care.

The successful candidate should have bioethics expertise, leadership experience, and capabilities to create an interdisciplinary instructional program involving faculty from ethics, law, clinical research and other relevant fields. The candidate will play a pivotal role in developing and updating curricula, training programs and practicum opportunities to build bioethics expertise among students, residents and fellows, and faculty.

The Director will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead the refinement and implementation of Bioethics Pathway which is a paracurricular program that prepares medical students to be transformational leaders in bioethics and medical ethics.
• Design curricula to train professionals from various backgrounds (physicians, researchers, ethicists, policymakers etc.) in bioethics related to biomedical/clinical research.
• Develop core courses and practicum experiences that focus on ethical principles, guidelines, and responsible conduct of research.
• Ensure curricula cover critical areas like cultural differences, vulnerable populations, informed consent, study design ethics, conflicts of interest etc.
• Mentor faculty to teach bioethics and medical ethics in programs.
• Participate in teaching within the College of Medicine.
• Shaping and overseeing the division's research and educational portfolios in bioethics.
• Share their research expertise to engage intellectually with the University community. This could include public lectures, arranging symposia, hosting visiting scholars, leading faculty reading groups, serving as a guest lecturer in a class, etc.
• Assist in developing and updating institutional policies to ensure compliance with ethical standards, state, and federal regulations.
• We especially welcome faculty who bring an equity lens to their scholarship and teaching and who demonstrate a record of successful collaboration.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree such as an M.D., Ph.D., J.D., or equivalent in a field related to bioethics or medical ethics.
• A distinguished record of scholarship, and be an accomplished teacher and leader in an area related to bioethics.
• Strong administrative and interpersonal skills to manage the division effectively.
• Proven ability to mentor faculty in the bioethics division.

Preferred Qualifications:

Work Schedule:

Variable Days; Variable Hours (Part-Time)

Salary Grade/Rank:

Salary Range:

Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Executive Order:

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu