Description

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine is seeking a Vice Chair of Research, Discovery and Innovation to lead scholarly programs at the premier academic emergency medicine department in the nation.  The Yale Department of Emergency Medicine and Yale School of Medicine are recognized for excellence in care, discovery, education, training, and leadership. The Department of Emergency Medicine includes over 60 academic track clinical faculty with more than 20 investigators nearly a dozen of whom have secured extramural federal research funding. The department has been ranked first by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research for NIH funding in emergency medicine since 2021 and is currently home to 10 of the top 100 funded investigators in emergency medicine.  The research portfolio of the department is broad and well diversified including focus areas in addiction medicine, geriatrics, implementation science, clinical informatics, health services research, critical care clinical trials, and health equity.

Responsibilities:

The Vice Chair of Research, Discovery, and Innovation will lead and manage a highly productive research operation thereby sustaining and further advancing its national and international reputation. The Vice Chair will:

• Catalyze physician scientist and investigator careers by guiding, sponsoring, mentoring, evaluating, and fostering collaborations for junior and mid-career research faculty.
• Strategically plan efforts that advance departmental research organizational structure and infrastructure including the development and expansion of a clinical enroller program, biobanking collaborations, research administrative support, and clinical research endeavors.
• Recruit and retain the most talented and promising faculty, staff, and students with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Supervise, harmonize, and mentor clinical research efforts of investigators, labs, and research divisions including the creation and maintenance of common policies and research infrastructure.
• Facilitate translation of discoveries and care delivery innovations into routine care following evidence-based implementation methods and by
• Grow departmental industry funding capacity via clinical trials, commercialization via SBIRs, STTRs, and new faculty ventures.
• Serve as primary departmental representative to the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Yale School of Medicine CTSA), the Yale School of Medicine Deputy Dean for Research, the Yale University Office of Sponsored Projects, Integrated Business Office, and Yale Pre-Award Team.
• Oversee directly and alongside other research faculty leadership and lead Department Administrator the research staff, rules, and regulations.
• Grow extramurally funded training programs (T32, K12, etc.) in the department of EM to support future junior faculty, research fellowship, and Yale Emergency Scholars.
• Mentor and supervise trainee research programs including Yale Emergency Scholars, resident and fellowship research programs (including annual resident research day), and medical student research thesis programs.
• Maintain and ensure that departmental research is conducted with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all regulations.
• Maintain an individual research portfolio aligned to departmental and YSM research and discovery efforts and investments.

Requirements

The selected candidate will have a scholarly record of significant extramural federal funding as well as leadership experience in conducting multi-center and multi-disciplinary research. Salary and rank will be commensurate with candidate qualifications with the expectation that candidates have a record of funding, publications, and leadership roles commensurate with appointment at the rank of Professor at Yale.

Qualified candidates should apply via Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/131693. For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Arjun Venkatesh MD, MBA, MHS, Chair and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital, at arjun.venkatesh@yale.edu.