Medical Faculty for Tenured or Tenure-Tracks - CHASM & Med Ed - CARES (Revised) - Multiple Positions

FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine (SoM) is the only medical school in the CUNY system. Our innovative curriculum allows students to complete both their undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees in seven years. CUNY SoM graduated its first MD class in 2020. In addition, the CUNY SoM offers a 28-months Physician Assistant (PA) program to prepare health professionals licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision. Our mission is 1) to provide access to medical education to talented youth from historically underrepresented in backgrounds in medicine and to develop health professionals committed to practicing in under-served communities and 2) to perform innovative research in community health and biomedicine.

The Medical Education (Med Ed) and the Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) department play a critical role in our mission-driven BS/MD program, Physician Assistant program, and new Post Baccalaureate program through their teaching and research programs. The CHASM department curricular responsibilities include providing a comprehensive effort to educate our students in the social, economic, political and behavioral determinants of health and disease, with a focus on population health, health disparities and health care policy. CHASM’s current research agenda is centered on chronic disease epidemiology, health behavior, health policy, health services, and community-based research. Med Ed is responsible for providing a comprehensive effort to educate our students to apply foundational sciences and clinical principles of medical practice to provide cross-cutting care to produce supremely competent healthcare professionals that New York Needs. Med Ed’s research focuses on developing an evidence-based pedagogy to deliver on mission. The school seeks to recruit and retain faculty who are clinician-scientist, and exceptional medical educators who have a track record of excellence across the school’s quadripartite mission as evidence by external federal funding and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

The CUNY Comprehensive Access to Resources and Essential Services (CARES) is an innovative student-centered program designed to increase graduation and retention rates at CUNY by assisting students to meet their essential needs for food, housing, health care, and mental health services. CUNY CARES trains and pays students to serve as navigators who link their peers to campus and community services and public benefits such as SNAP and Medicaid. It partners with health care and social service providers and city agencies. In Fall 2023, CUNY launched CUNY CARES at its three Bronx campuses. Based on results of an ongoing evaluation f its first three years, the long-term vision is to expand CARES to all 26 CUNY campuses serving 240,000 students, the majority from low-income, immigrant and communities of color. CUNY CARES studies showed that in the Bronx, 50% of matriculated students had two or more unmet essential needs.

CUNY CARES is sponsored by the CUNY Chancellor’s Office of Transformation in collaboration with Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College, Lehman College, the CUNY School of Public Health and CUNY SoM.

The CUNY Medical School now seeks to hire a visionary leader in education and health disparity, senior faculty researcher with expertion at the Associate or Full Professor level to provide academic, scientific and medical leadership to CUNY CARES. The faculty member will be part of the Med Ed and/or CHASM department depending on their research discipline. The faculty member will provide visionary leadership for CUNY CARES, leading the effort to make it a local and national model for promoting academic health and life success and closing gaps in health and educational attainment across urban and disadvantaged populations.

The hired faculty member will have a national reputation for their scholarship, research or service. They will work with partners within CUNY, the medical school, CUNY schools in the Bronx, and extend its reach to other CUNY schools and partners. The faculty member will also work closely with CUNY academic and student affairs offices and local health and social service agencies.

The faculty member will report to their respective departmental Chair and work collaboratively with CUNY SoM (modeling to RCMI) instructional and research administration as well as across CUNY. The position includes teaching, research, and mentoring duties in their area of expertise and sharing responsibility for committee, program and department assignments, which include administrative, supervisory and other functions. In addition to the above details, the responsibilities of this faculty member include but are not limited to:

• Enhance institutional research capacity in translational health disparities research. Enable principal and investigators to continue their competitive extramural support by studying health disparities across a spectrum of approaches, including basic science mechanisms, clinical trials, AI, and community-engaged research.
• Maintaining an externally funded research program at the CUNY School of Medicine
• Build research infrastructure for interdisciplinary programs.
• Spearhead and promote curricula infrastructure as needed to train health professionals and educators
• Participate in instruction of undergraduate, medical and graduate students; through a combination of educational methodologies, including live presentations, video-streaming, and multimedia;
• Actively promote a culture of education and health research focused on the social determinants of education at CUNY MED by mentoring investigators
• Makes presentations at national and international meetings and actively publish in rigorous peer-reviewed journals.
• Act as a convener of conferences on CUNY CARES
• Develop and refine strategic plan, evaluation and metrics for success of CUNY CARES in collaboration with its CUNY leadership team and contribute to replication and scaling of CUNY CARES
• Support and develop future research portfolio with the CUNY SoM RCMI
• Demonstrate expertise in one or more relevant academic specialization areas such as the education and health interface, the health and well-being of young adults, the mental health of college students, or others.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Department Chairperson or designee.

QUALIFICATIONS

MINMIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD, MD, or related terminal degree as well as a record of significant achievement in profession or field of expertise.
• Team player with collaborative approach
• Have a demonstrable track record of research productivity, as evidenced by commensurate and highly impactful publications
• Evidence of sustained record of external foundation, governmental, and federal grant funding as PI and with team-based science
• A track record of mentoring junior faculty and faculty development.
• A national and international standing, as evidenced by invited speaking opportunities at conferences and symposia.
• Passion for addressing the social determinants of education and medical education that are barriers to student success
• Commitment to community engagement with a focus on those who are underserved in the academy including disadvantaged, underrepresented, low-income and vulnerable
• Experience and knowledge of educational disparities
• Knowledge of and experience with CQUI principles

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Mental health background preferred.
• Knowledge of the social determinants of health
• Knowledge of the social determinates of education and medical education
• Experience in community-based research and service
• Experience and knowledge of education, health, and healthcare disparities along the spectrum from cells to society
• Familiarity with application of implementation science
• Knowledge of AI and related technologies and their roles in undergraduate, graduate and medical education
• Sophisticated knowledge of computational methodologies
• Sophisticated experience in health services research and health, education and public policy
• Ability to triangulate quantitative and qualitative research
• Knowledge of mixed methods and ability to incorporate them within research
• Funded research programs that align with current strengths in the Med Ed and CHASM departments
• Distinguished as a teacher, educator, and practitioner
• Experience with interdisciplinary and interprofessional education
• Strong interpersonal skills to initiate and maintain effective working relationships
• Experience and a demonstrated commitment to an accessor building an equitable scholarly ad learning environment
• Advanced understanding of the importance of all voices in academic medicine and the impact of educational and healthcare disparities in medicine

COMPENSATION

Medical Professor (Clinical) - $140,087 - $207,923 or Associate Medical Professor (Clinical) - $122,677 - $174,026

AND

Assistant Professor (Clinical) - 119,128 - $169,998

CUNY offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, paid parental leave, and savings programs. We also provide mentoring and support for research, scholarship, and publication as part of our commitment to ongoing faculty professional development.

(CURRENT CONTRACTUAL SALARY RANGE)

CUNY is in the process of implementing salary schedule increases. Once implemented, salaries of eligible employees will be adjusted by 6.09% with additional increases of 3.25% effective 9/1/2025 and 3.5% effective 9/1/26, in accordance with the terms of the PSC-CUNY collective bargaining agreement.