"Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor"

Assistant Professor/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Professor/Clinical Associate Professor

Position Number: 000671
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Anticipated Recruitment Range: Commensurate with qualifications
Position Type: Faculty (Teaching)
Job Category: Faculty (Physician)

Organizational Unit Overview:

ECU Health Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is dedicated to providing excellence in education, patient care, scholarship, and service in mental health. We strive to foster a collaborative environment committed to improving the health and well-being of the people of eastern North Carolina and beyond. We support and advance evidence-based practice, sound scientific principles, and compassion in addressing the needs of our learners, our patients, our colleagues and our community.

ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have built a state of the art, 144-bed behavioral health facility, opening soon. The new facility will include 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

Job Duties:

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine invites applicants who are board eligible/board certified Addiction Medicine Psychiatry Physician or Addiction Medicine Physician to apply for our 12-month, fixed-term or tenure-track appointments at the title/rank of Clinical Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor.

Clinical responsibilities will include providing addiction consult services to ECU Health Medical Center, and other contracted sites, including comprehensive evidence-based patient care. The selected candidate will be able to provide a multisystem biopsychosocial addiction evaluation of patients that includes a thorough review of history, diagnostic studies and co-morbid illness. They will be able to provide assessment for co-occurring conditions and make provisions for treatment, continuation of care or referral for higher level of care when appropriate.

The selected candidate will collaborate with other faculty members in conducting clinical research, with the opportunity to initiate projects. Teaching responsibilities include the supervision of medical students; residents and other health care professionals rotating through the clinical facilities serviced by this position.

The position also includes teaching in the didactic series in the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship once established, adult psychiatry residency, adult psychiatry grand rounds as well as other affiliated lecture needs to further promote and destigmatize the specialty of addiction treatment.

Salary and academic rank/title (tenure track or fixed term) commensurate with experience and academic background. Will consider up to 1.0 FTE.

Position contingent upon availability of funding.

Employment in this position provides eligibility to participate in the UNC Optional Retirement Program (ORP) which offers matching employer contributions and employee control of investment choices, along with eligibility to participate in various Voluntary Supplemental Retirement Plans (401k, 403b. 457). This position is not eligible to participate in the NC Teachers and State Employees Retirement System (TSERS). Additionally, this position offers multiple voluntary options for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance as well as various supplemental plans including Critical Illness, Flexible Spending Accounts, Cancer, and Disability.

Minimum Education/Experience:

• MD or DO from an appropriately accredited institution, or completed foreign medical education accepted and recognized for ECFMG Certification.
• Board eligible/certified in Addiction specialty (psychiatry or medicine)
• Eligible for medical licensure in the State of North Carolina, have a current state and federal prescriptive authority as well as a valid DATA 2000 waiver to prescribe buprenorphine products for the treatment of addiction.

License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation:

Eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina.

Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education:

None

Special Instructions to Applicant:

East Carolina University requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. In addition to submitting a candidate profile online, please submit online the required applicant documents:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Letter of Interest
• List of Three References (noting contact information)

At the time of employment two to three original letters of reference, official transcripts, a criminal background check, and proper documentation of identity and employability are required. Please be aware that if selected for an interview, an automatic e-mail will be sent to the individuals entered by the applicant in the References section of the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system. Letters of reference submitted via the PeopleAdmin applicant tracking system will be verified and considered towards meeting this requirement.

Additional Instructions to Applicant:

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.

Job Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Initial Screening Begins: 01/02/2026