Job Details
Department: UH INST FOR HOMELESSNESS HELTH
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description
Summary
Lead a university-wide institute for the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine (COM) to advance digital innovations that measurably improve health outcomes – with a dedicated focus on underserved populations – through interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and translation to practice and market. Responsible for steering the Institute from its high-impact launch to long-term institutional sustainability.
Job Duties
- Responsible for strengthening the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine’s health-related research portfolio by advancing translation and commercialization pathways aligned with UH’s research and innovation priorities.
- Leads launch and growth of a university-wide institute with clear research, translation, and impact priorities.
- Builds a high-performance culture that enables collaboration across colleges (e.g., health disciplines, engineering, natural sciences, business, education, law, architecture, among others).
- Instrumental in developing and deploying digital health modalities, devices, and algorithms that solve real-world healthcare challenges.
- Catalyzes interdisciplinary teams and large, multi-investigator proposals; strengthen the institute's role in expanding health-related research expenditures.
- Cultivates federal, state, foundation, and industry support consistently with UH's research growth priorities.
- Coordinates with and reports to university research leadership.
- Performs other job-related duties as required.
Job Requirements
Education:
Requires application of advanced principles, techniques and theory in a professional discipline or a thorough general business management knowledge. Knowledge of this level is typically obtained through a directly job-related Master’s degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Experience:
Requires a minimum of seven (7) years of directly job-related experience.
Preferred: History of directing centers/institutes and administering research cores or major programs with measurable outcomes. Expertise in digital health domains such as AI/ML for healthcare, devices/sensors, remote monitoring, clinical workflow integration, implementation science, health equity/community-based participatory research, or health data systems.
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