About the Department of Emergency Medicine
The UVA Department of Emergency Medicine is a nationally recognized leader in clinical care, education, and research. The department’s faculty care for more than 75,000 patients annually across UVA Health’s academic emergency department and regional sites. Educational excellence is a core mission, with a robust residency program, fellowships in EMS, medical toxicology, ultrasound, and global health, and active student programs. Faculty are nationally recognized for innovation in AI-augmented…
learning, simulation-based education, physician well-being initiatives, and operational research. The department has strong institutional support for educational innovation, with collaborative ties to the School of Medicine Office of Educational Affairs, UVA’s Link Lab for data science and engineering, and the Center for Advanced Medical Analytics.
Research is a rapidly growing pillar of the Department’s mission under the leadership of the Vice Chair for Research and Innovation, with a distinctive emphasis on digital health, artificial intelligence, data science, clinical informatics, and robotics. Departmental faculty develop and deploy clinical AI and prediction tools on real-time health system data, build health data infrastructure, and study the sociotechnical and ethical dimensions of technology in acute care, in close collaboration with UVA’s School of Data Science, School of Engineering, and Link Lab. Departmental research infrastructure includes a weekly research incubator series, an internal pilot grant program for junior faculty and trainees, embedded data science support, and strong ties to UVA’s emerging enterprise research data platform. Prehospital research is a strategic priority for the Department, and this position offers the opportunity to help build it with dedicated mentorship and support.
About UVA Health and Charlottesville
UVA Health is the flagship academic health system for the Commonwealth of Virginia and is consistently ranked among the nation’s best. The University of Virginia is a top-public university with a strong culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and service.
Charlottesville offers an outstanding quality of life, combining the vibrant intellectual and cultural environment of a university town with the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. For more information about UVA and the Charlottesville community please see http://www.virginia.edu/life/charlottesville and https://embarkcva.com/.
Job Summary
- Clinical Activities – Faculty serve as attending physicians within the UVA emergency department. Completion of residency training in emergency medicine and board-eligibility/certification will be required. Preference given to those applicants who have completed additional fellowship training and board certifications.
- Teaching - Teaching encompasses all activities that directly facilitate student learning, including the contact hours spent in the classroom, office hours, class preparation, grading, answering student email, student advising, evaluating and making available course materials, facilitating e-learning and related duties.
- Research - The research component normally includes scholarly publication, attending academic conferences and obtaining grants. More senior scholars often take leadership roles in scholarly associations and act as editors, board members and referees for grant-giving organizations, academic presses and scholarly journals. External grant funding is encouraged and a support system exists to provide assistance in seeking and obtaining grant funding.
- Service - University service involves membership in departmental, college-level and university committees, attending departmental meetings, student recruitment and processing routine paperwork such as filling out reports, answering email, participating in surveys and voting in university elections.
- In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.
Salary, rank, and tenure are commensurate with education and experience. For more information on the benefits available to faculty at UVA, visit https://faculty.med.virginia.edu/facultyaffairs/ and hr.virginia.edu/benefits. This position will remain open till filled. The University will perform background checks on all new hires before employment. A completed pre-employment health screen is required for this position before employment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- MD or DO degree.
- Completion of residency training in Emergency Medicine.
- Board eligibility or certification in Emergency Medicine.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional fellowship training and/or board certifications.
- Continued record of academic accomplishment.
Successful applicants will demonstrate a commitment to advancing their academic career by joining a diverse and highly accomplished faculty. The successful candidate will have a proven track record or significant potential for leadership and collaboration to promote the continued growth of the emergency medicine program. These opportunities are for the Emergency Medicine physician with an interest in a balanced career of research, clinical care, service, and teaching, with time allocated by the Department to support scholarly pursuits.
Application Instructions
Questions related to this opportunity should be directed to Shannon K. Hughen-Giger, MHA, Chief Operating Officer, at cwa6tr@uvahealth.org
We look forward to your application.
To Apply
Please apply through interfolio: apply.interfolio.com Complete an application online with the following documents:
- CV
- Cover Letter – please include how you learned about this position and a statement of contributions or potential contributions to the UVA Health ASPIRE Values.
- Contact information for at least 3 references
Upload all materials into the submission fields, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field as a merged pdf file, if needed. Applications that do not contain all required documents may not receive full consideration.
For questions about the application process, please contact Ashley Cochran, Senior Recruiter at alc6dk@virginia.edu.
UVA is located in beautiful Charlottesville with easy access to the Blue Ridge Mountains, the eastern shore and the nation's Capital. Charlottesville is one of the best places to live; outdoors, vibrant town with culture, music, restaurants, excellent schools, etc. Opportunities for excellent clinical, and laboratory-based research and teaching pursuits working within the collegial work environment are available.
UVA assists faculty spouses and partners seeking employment in the Charlottesville area. To learn more please visit https://dualcareer.virginia.edu/.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.