Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice President for Psychiatric Services

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary: $300,000-$350,000

Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Description

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine seeks candidates for the position of Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Johns Hopkins School Medicine has consistently been among the top medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding. The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks among the best in the country for its exceptional care for complex cases.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a distinguished teaching, research and clinical faculty, with over $50 million in extramural research funding and many outstanding clinicians who are national and international leaders in their respective subspecialty areas. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division includes 69 faculty members, a 15-bed inpatient unit and a day hospital unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and outpatient clinics located at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.

The Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division is the leader of all aspects of the Division’s enterprise, serving as the spokesperson for the faculty, and represents the Division in interactions with the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospitals, and the School of Medicine, and with practitioners in the region, and nationally. Responsibilities include faculty recruitment and appointments; educational, clinical and research programs; fiscal planning and management; and short- and long-term strategic planning.

The candidate will also serve as Vice President for Psychiatric Services at Kennedy Krieger Institute, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins University.

Qualifications

Candidates must have previous records consistent with appointment as a tenured Professor of Psychiatry. This includes an MD degree or equivalent, an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, teaching, and service, eligibility for licensure in Maryland; and certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The successful candidate should have the demonstrated capacity to foster an environment in which excellence in teaching, research and scholarship flourish, as well as experience in and a commitment to developing and leading clinical programs. Candidates should have a record of innovative and effective administrative and fiscal leadership, national stature in academic psychiatry, a record of excellent interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience promoting positive interactions with students, staff and faculty.