"Director, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center"

Job Details

University of Iowa Health Care (UI Health Care) seeks its next Director to lead the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center (FOEDRC). This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a nationally recognized diabetes, obesity, and metabolism-focused research center within one of the largest university-owned teaching hospitals in the United States. This pivotal leadership position presents the opportunity to shape the center’s scientific vision and drive transformative innovation and will have a lasting impact on the FOEDRC and beyond. The successful candidate for director will be an outstanding biomedical scientist, creative leader and an accomplished administrator who understands the changing biomedical research environment and is able to leverage the center’s strengths to advance and support excellence in metabolic research, education, clinical care, and community engagement.

Located within the Carver College of Medicine, the FOEDRC has a distinguished record in research and education that relates to obesity, metabolism, and diabetes, with demonstrated excellence in connecting the biological relationships of diabetes and obesity with neuroscience, immunology, cancer, and cardiovascular disorders. The center has over 90 faculty actively collaborating to advance fundamental biological, translational, and clinical research and education. The FOEDRC supports state-of-art metabolomic and metabolic phenotyping cores, pilot grant funding mechanism, a NIH T32 training program, and a weekly seminar series inviting nationally recognized speakers.

Candidates could become a member of one or more of several academic departments upon appointment.

Required qualifications are as follows (if you do not meet any of these required qualifications, you will not be eligible for this role):

• MD, MD/PhD, or PhD with a track record of accomplishments in diabetes, obesity, or metabolism research and a deep understanding of basic, translational, clinical, and/or population-based science. National recognition for achievement in clinical, educational, and/or research pursuits that would warrant a tenured appointment. Record of accomplishment for developing a research infrastructure and extramural funding. Excellent strategic skills, administrative experience, and financial acumen. Demonstrated leadership achievement in a high-performing, contemporary, academic research center with comparable complexity to the University of Iowa Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center. Demonstrated knowledge of effective strategies for working with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives.  Excellent communication skills and demonstrated interpersonal skills, allowing for transparency, respect, effective problem resolution, and ethical decision-making.