Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor, Neurobiology And Anatomy - McGovern Medical School

McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) invites applications for full-time, (1.0 FTE), open-rank non-tenured instruction-track faculty position as an Anatomy Educator.

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, UTHealth Houston is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. Located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, UTHealth Houston is home to John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School, Jane and Robert Cizik School of Nursing, and schools of dentistry, public health, graduate school of biomedical sciences, and biomedical informatics. The Texas Medical Center also includes UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Heart Institute, and Rice University. The eighth-largest medical school in the country, McGovern Medical School, is well positioned to leverage tremendous momentum in medical education, compassionate care, and biomedical research.

Position Key Accountabilities:

This full-time position will entail teaching gross anatomy to medical students as part of the integrated Foundations of Medical Science course in Year 1 as well as Anatomy electives in Year 4. This position is also responsible for directing the Human Structure Facility. This facility manages the custody and assignment of human cadavers through the Willed Body Program. The facility supplies the medical school teaching laboratories with materials needed for education and research. Individuals trained in the anatomical sciences who are interested in pursuing a career primarily devoted to teaching are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

Candidates must possess a Ph.D. or an equivalent terminal degree and have at least 2 years of experience teaching human anatomy to medical students. Salary and academic rank will be commensurate with education and experience.

Interested candidates should submit electronically a letter of application (including a statement of scholarly interests), curriculum vitae, and three letters of references through our online application system at https://www.uth.edu/careers/. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Search will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified.