Position Title:
Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor - Anatomy
Location:
Downtown Campus
Position Type (Track – Faculty, Tenure/Track or Faculty, Career-Track, Year-to-Year):
Career Track, year to year, fiscal year
Open Date:
August 21, 2026
Description:
The John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering invites applications for a full-time, benefits-eligible Assistant, Associate, or Full Teaching Professor to help shape a new kind of physician that is trained at the intersection of medicine and engineering. Our innovative curriculum brings together basic science, clinical reasoning, and systems thinking to prepare graduates to solve complex health challenges.
In this non-tenure-eligible role, approximately 80% of effort is devoted to teaching and 20% to service. The appointment is renewable on a fiscal year basis, contingent upon satisfactory performance, the availability of resources, and institutional needs. Candidates must demonstrate a broad command of their discipline, a record of medical school-level teaching, and a genuine commitment to mentoring all learners. We especially welcome applicants who are energized by working in a collaborative, active-learning environment and who are eager to help build and refine a forward-looking, engineering-informed medical curriculum. The successful candidate will help develop, implement, and assess integrated clinical skills, gross anatomy, and neuroanatomy curriculum for medical students. This longitudinal curriculum leverages medical imaging, extended reality, augmented intelligence (AI), and other emerging tools to improve learning outcomes.
About the School:
ASU’s John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering was designed to drive this transformation by preparing physicians to lead changes for a more effective, resilient, and responsive health care system.
Headquartered in downtown Phoenix, the school will produce physicians who blend medicine, engineering, technology, and humanities. Graduates will leverage new tools such as AI and data science to connect with more patients, develop innovative practices, and be equipped to treat more patients in novel ways.
The school is part of ASU Health, a dynamic and comprehensive approach that focuses the nation’s most innovative university - Arizona State University - on the health needs and challenges of the state and the nation. ASU Health includes new schools, increased focus in existing schools and centers, new health initiatives, and a statewide network of health clinics to better serve vulnerable populations while providing hands-on learning. To learn more about the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering, visit https://medicine.asu.edu/.
About ASU Health:
Arizona State University is accelerating its health-related efforts to tackle the state’s urgent health care needs, now and into the future.
ASU is launching a new medical school, creating a school for public health technology, launching a "health observatory," developing the health care workforce, and more. The charge is to address significant and growing health care needs and help improve health outcomes for families across Arizona.
ASU Health will transform how health care is designed, delivered, and measured while also producing new physicians, nurses, specialists, technologists, scientists — all the groups that need to be focused every day on Arizona’s health.
ASU Health will produce physicians who blend medicine, engineering, technology, and humanities to become a different kind of health care leader. Graduates will leverage new tools such as AI and data science to connect with more patients, seek innovative practices, and improve health outcomes. We are working to find innovative ways to be impactful to families at home, schools and school districts, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies - everyone. To learn more about ASU Health, visit https://asuhealth.asu.edu/
About Arizona State University:
Arizona State University, ranked the No. 1 “Most Innovative School” in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for nine years in succession, has forged the model for a New American University. Year after year, ASU ranks at or near the top of the list in areas that matter. ASU is a comprehensive public research institution, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves. ASU operates on the principles that learning is a personal and original journey for each student; that they thrive on experience and that the process of discovery cannot be bound by traditional academic disciplines. Through innovation and a commitment to accessibility, ASU has drawn pioneering researchers to its faculty even as it expands opportunities for qualified students, attracting some of the highest- quality students from all 50 states and more than 130 nations. To learn more about ASU, visit https://www.asu.edu/.
All we do at ASU is guided and inspired by the ASU Charter, which reads:
ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.
Successful candidates will demonstrate throughout their materials how their teaching and service will contribute to the fulfillment of this charter.
Essential Functions of the Position:
• Develop and deliver engaging instructional content in Gross Anatomy and Neuroanatomy for the medical school curriculum.
• Incorporate evidence-based, student-centered teaching strategies.
• Contribute to curricular development and academic innovation, including extended reality and 3D anatomy activities, active learning, flipped-classroom, case-based, and team-based approaches.
• Collaborate with engineering faculty to integrate medical curricular content with engineering principles and promote interdisciplinary learning.
• Design and integrate learning technologies to support case-based and other active learning activities.
• Employ a range of teaching methods, such as extended and 3D anatomy activities, case-based instruction, large- and small-group discussion, active learning, lecture, demonstration, simulation, and team-based learning.
• Develop assessment strategies and evaluate medical student performance using multiple methods, including objective clinical examinations and clinical skills assessments with constructive feedback.
• Serve as block or course director as appropriate.
• Facilitate small group sessions for active learning.
• Mentor and advise medical students to support their academic and professional growth.
• Engage in scholarly activity and research in medical education and related fields.
• Teach courses in relevant areas.
• Course development and modification in the essential functions.
• Monitor student progress.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
• PhD degree (Ph.D.) in Anatomy, Biological Anthropology, Paleontology, or a closely related field by the time of appointment.
• Experience creating course curriculum and teaching with innovative instructional methods, including using technology to supplement and improve pedagogy.
- Innovative instructional methods include but are not limited to the implementation of extended reality and 3D anatomy activities, simulations, active learning, flipped-classroom, case-based, and team-based learning methodologies.
• The successful candidate for the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor should provide evidence of at least two (2) years of teaching experience in a medical school curriculum, with expertise in gross anatomy and neuroanatomy.
• The successful candidate for the rank of Associate Teaching Professor should provide evidence of at least five (5) years of college or university-level instruction and evidence of successful mentoring, both in formal (e.g., committees) and informal settings.
• The successful candidate for the rank of Teaching Professor should provide evidence of at least seven (7) years of college or university-level instruction and evidence of successful mentoring, both in formal (e.g., committees) and informal settings.
Desired Qualifications
• Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative activities with other faculty and staff.
• Experience supervising and mentoring graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate teaching/research assistants, and instructional lab coordinators.
• Participation in the higher education community and professional development activities (for example, postdoctoral teaching certificate programs, authoring educational and scientific publications, presenting at conferences, etc.).
Teaching/Student evaluations may be required at the time of interview.
Application Instructions
Application Deadline:
The initial application deadline is September 30, 2026 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled or closed. A background check and official transcripts are required prior to employment. For assistance with your application, or for position-related questions, contact Lilian Lin @ lilian.lin@asu.edu.
Application Procedure:
Only electronic submissions via Interfolio will be reviewed. All required materials must be submitted at the time of initial application. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please submit all application materials to https://apply.interfolio.com/190735.
Applications must contain:
• Cover letter that addresses the required and desired qualifications.
• Curriculum vitae with contact information, including telephone number and e-mail address.
• Personal Statement outlining philosophy and plans for teaching and service.
• Information for three professional references (their position, title, e-mail, phone number), one reference must be from your current or most recent employer.
Applicants advancing to the second round of review may be asked to provide additional materials.
ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon the successful passing of the background check.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. (See https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.)
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