"School of Health Professions-Associate Professor/Professor-Nutrition Sciences"

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Department of Nutrition Sciences in the Schools of Health Professions and Medicine, is seeking a Director of the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC). This will be a full-time, 12-month faculty appointment. Rank and tenure status will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The Director will lead the promotion of Nutrition and Obesity research, direct the center's enrichment program, recruit and mentor investigators, and oversee the collaborative research efforts of the center. The ideal candidate will have an established record of accomplishment of academic excellence, mentoring, and scientific leadership, and a well-developed, funded, research program in nutrition, metabolism, and/or obesity. A medical degree or a doctoral degree is required.

The Director of the NORC will play an active role in the Department of Nutrition Sciences (www.uab.edu/nutrition), which is chaired by Barbara A. Gower, PhD, and has 25 full-time faculty members and more than 100 staff, students, and postdoctoral fellows involved in basic, animal, physiologic, clinical, and community-based research, patient care, and teaching. The department has a robust portfolio of extramural research funding, hosts two NIDDK-supported centers (the NORC and the Diabetes Research Center), and serves as a clinical center for the NIH consortium study, Nutrition for Precision Health. The Department offers numerous nutrition-related education programs, including an undergraduate major and minor, a broad portfolio of master's degrees, a doctoral program, and a dietetic internship, and directs three NIH-funded T-32 training programs. UAB is a flourishing urban university and medical center with research funding exceeding $715 million.

Minimum qualifications include a medical degree or a doctoral degree and established research in nutrition, metabolism, and/or obesity.