Assistant/Associate Professor

The Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine seeks candidates for an Assistant/Associate Professor position in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. The applicant should have training and experience in Trauma, Emergency General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Education participation and research endeavors are expected. Time spent treating patients will consist of evaluation and management of Trauma and Emergency General Surgery patients at our urban level I and level II trauma centers. There are also opportunities for an Elective General Surgery practice, as well as Adult Burn Surgery coverage for those with additional formal Burn Surgery training. Faculty will also have the opportunity to cover one of the Surgical Intensive Care Units (ICUs) as part of our overall clinical mission as a division. The Surgical ICUs have a mixture of surgical patients, including trauma, transplant, vascular, thoracic, orthopedic, plastic, obstetric, gynecologic-oncology, endocrine, and general surgical services. Fellows are present in most ICUs, as they participate in an integrated fellowship between the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Resident, fellow and medical student supervision and instruction are major components of the position. Education is focused on General Surgery residents, ICU fellows and Acute Care Surgery fellows. The attending is expected to help with formal didactic teaching. Research endeavors will be encouraged. Clinical research and outcome studies are abundant. Our current faculty have close collaborations with the Johns Hopkins Surgery Center for Outcomes Research (JSCOR), The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Applicants must have an M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. or equivalent degree. They should be certified (or eligible to be) by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery with additional qualification in Surgical Critical Care.