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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track. Expertise is required in the specific area of racial and intersectional microaggression prevention programming, race-based bullying, the impact of race-ethnicity based biases on children’s development, and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to intervention development. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
Teaching responsibilities may include training seminars related to race-based bullying, impact of biases and stereotypes on children’s development, and school-based bullying prevention to psychology, psychiatry, and social work fellows, and/or through CBPR and mixed methods teaching/training through the LEND program.
Clinical responsibilities may include collaborating with clinicians on research projects to ensure research findings inform clinical practice.
Research or scholarship responsibilities may include collaborative and independent research in school-based research with a focus on relational aggression and race-based bullying, and racial and intersectional microaggressions and their impact across settings (schools, community, hospital). The successful candidate will be expected to obtain extramural funding from grants and other resources and develop a strong record of scholarly publications.
We seek candidates who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense. The University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are EOEs. Minorities/women/individuals with disabilities/protected veterans are encouraged to apply.