Department: UH INST FOR HOMELESSNESS HELTH Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description:
Summary
Lead a university-wide institute for the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine (COM) to advance digital innovations that measurably improve health outcomes - with a dedicated focus on underserved populations - through interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and translation to practice and market. Responsible for steering the Institute from its high-impact launch to long-term institutional sustainability.
Job Duties
1.Responsible for strengthening the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine's health-related research portfolio by advancing translation and commercialization pathways aligned with UH's research and innovation priorities.
2.Leads launch and growth of a university-wide institute with clear research, translation, and impact priorities.
3.Builds a high-performance culture that enables collaboration across colleges (e.g., health disciplines, engineering, natural sciences, business, education, law, architecture, among others).
4.Instrumental in developing and deploying digital health modalities, devices, and algorithms that solve real-world healthcare challenges.
5.Catalyzes interdisciplinary teams and large, multi-investigator proposals; strengthen the institute's role in expanding health-related research expenditures.
6.Cultivates federal, state, foundation, and industry support consistently with UH's research growth priorities.
7.Coordinates with and reports to university research leadership.
8.Performs other job-related duties as required.
Job Requirements:
Education:
Requires application of advanced principles, techniques and theory in a professional discipline or a thorough general business management knowledge. Knowledge of this level is typically obtained through a directly job-related Master's degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Experience:
Requires a minimum of seven (7) years of directly job-related experience.
Preferred: History of directing centers/institutes and administering research cores or major programs with measurable outcomes. Expertise in digital health domains such as AI/ML for healthcare, devices/sensors, remote monitoring, clinical workflow integration, implementation science, health equity/community-based participatory research, or health data systems.
