Open Rank Teaching Professor, DPET

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The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (www.pharmacy.unc.edu) is one of six health science schools (Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Social Work, Public Health, Medicine) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is one of the oldest health science academic programs at Chapel Hill. The School teaches approximately 600 PharmD students and 145 graduate students. The School has built a reputation for its continued pursuit of excellence, rigorous education and training programs, cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, progressive pharmacy practices, efficient business operations, and its outstanding faculty, staff, and students. The School was named the number one School of Pharmacy in the U.S. by the U.S. News and World Report. The School has experienced unprecedented growth and success and continues to strategically position itself for sustained impact, as articulated in the School's Strategic Plan (https://pharmacy.unc.edu/about/oe/strategic-plan/).

Our Vision is to be the global leader in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. Our Mission is to prepare leaders and innovators to solve the world's most pressing health care challenges. We are Advancing Medicine for Life through innovation and collaboration in pharmacy practice, education, research, and public service.

The Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy invites applications for a 12-month fixed-term faculty position at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor. The primary focus of this position will be teaching in the professional Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program.

The School's PharmD program is a rigorous four-year program with a campus in Chapel Hill, NC and Asheville, NC. Through the PharmD curriculum, students engage in both didactic coursework and experiential learning whereby they are immersed in real-world patient care. In 2015, the School launched a transformative curriculum designed to emphasize active engagement of students in the classroom, foster problem solving and scientific inquiry, and immerse students in patient care early and often throughout their education. Our PharmD graduates are highly successful in a wide range of practice environments including pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, government agencies, academia, and other healthcare and business sectors. The School is committed to maintaining the highest quality education. To do so, we must ensure that we recruit the best and brightest educators to ensure we sustain excellence and continually enhance and strengthen our program.

This position will be based in the School's Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics ( DPET) (https://pharmacy.unc.edu/divisions/dpet/). The primary focus of DPET is the optimization of drug therapy through the discovery and evaluation of key factors that influence how therapeutic agents work in individual patients. DPET consists of faculty with expertise in pharmacotherapy, experimental and clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics, drug toxicity, precision medicine, drug development, education, and practice innovations across several therapeutic areas. Our faculty improve patient care by discovering and applying new therapeutic knowledge through our innovative, collaborative, and clinically relevant research, and by educating the next generation of pharmacists and clinical-translational scientists. Our graduate and postdoctoral fellowship training programs develop scientists who conduct innovative clinical and translational research that integrates biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences through use of state-of-the-art laboratory, clinical, and computational modeling approaches. Under the overarching theme of precision therapeutics, our core research focus areas are translational & quantitative pharmacology, experimental therapeutics & genomics, and precision pharmacotherapy.

The primary focus of this position will be dedicated to PharmD teaching in the area of pharmacotherapy. A particular therapeutic area is not being targeted for this position. The ideal candidate will have training and expertise in special patient populations, clinical pharmacokinetics, and/or precision medicine/pharmacogenomics, and the ability and desire to teach therapeutics topics that span across multiple areas. Specific teaching responsibilities will be driven by both the needs of the PharmD program as well as the expertise and interests of the faculty member. In addition to dedicating a significant proportion of their responsibilities to teaching activities, the faculty member will also have responsibilities in research and scholarship, professional service, and, if applicable, patient care. The effort allocation in each area will be tailored to the expertise and professional goals of the faculty member. Opportunities to engage in education and mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be available.

PharmD degree with a minimum of two-years of residency training (PGY1/PGY2), postdoctoral fellowship training, or relevant patient care experience

- Board of Pharmacy Specialties ( BPS) certification
- Direct patient care experience
- PharmD student teaching experience including course coordination, didactic instruction, small-group facilitation, experiential teaching and/or precepting
- Training and expertise in special patient populations, clinical pharmacokinetics, and/or precision medicine/pharmacogenomics, and the ability and desire to teach therapeutics topics that span across multiple areas
- Established or possesses the potential to establish scholarship in an area that aligns with the focus of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and its training programs
- Postgraduate (e.g., resident, fellow) mentorship and program leadership experience

Please upload curriculum vitae, cover letter, list of references (at least three) and a teaching statement using the "teaching philosophy/evaluations" documents submission.

If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

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