Paul Batalden Distinguished Chair in Healthcare Improvement

Dartmouth invites applications for the Paul Batalden Distinguished Chair, an endowed tenured professorship at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (The Dartmouth Institute) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. This chair is named for Paul Batalden, MD, a co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and an early leader of The Dartmouth Institute with John E. Wennberg, MD. The Batalden Professor will lead an interdisciplinary effort with faculty and students across the various schools, centers, and institutes at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Health, and other partner health systems to accelerate the transformation of U.S. healthcare to achieve our mission of improving public health, reducing disparities, and creating high performing health systems.

Faculty at The Dartmouth Institute are leaders in the study of health policy, healthcare organization and financing, and improvement of clinical practice with impacts spanning three decades. As an interdisciplinary research organization, we seek candidates with experience working with and mobilizing colleagues across disciplines. Disciplines reflected among our primary faculty include anthropology, biostatistics, decision science, health economics, health services research, medicine (primary care, pediatrics, hospice, and palliative medicine), social work, sociology, and systems engineering. The selected candidate will have a primary academic appointment in Health Policy and Clinical Practice at The Dartmouth Institute, with the potential for secondary appointments in other Geisel Departments, adjunct appointments in Arts & Sciences and/or other professional schools (Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business), and affiliations with other Dartmouth Institutes or Centers.

In addition to their leadership, scholarship, and mentorship activities, the candidate will direct one course per year in the Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science (MS), Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS), or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs. As requested by the Chair or the Dean, senior faculty members are also expected to participate in Dartmouth’s academic committees and serve in national study sections, journal editorial boards, or leadership roles for their professional societies.

Dartmouth consistently ranks among the country’s leading academic institutions. Home to a celebrated liberal arts curriculum and pioneering professional schools, Dartmouth has forged a singular identity, combining its deep commitment to outstanding undergraduate liberal arts and graduate education with distinguished research and scholarship. Dartmouth is in the neighboring towns of Hanover and Lebanon in the Upper Connecticut River Valley on the NH and VT border. The region is a vibrant, academic, and professional community offering excellent public schools, a lively arts scene, a rural setting with incredible natural beauty, delicious local produce, and artisanal foods. Boston, New York City, and Montreal are within a few hours’ drive for those who enjoy cities.

The Batalden Professor should have an outstanding scholarly record of studying and solving healthcare's most complex challenges. Candidates must have a PhD, MD, or equivalent, strong academic credentials and extramural support, and a research portfolio demonstrating national leadership in their field. Candidates should meet the expectations for appointment at the rank of full professor with tenure at the Geisel School of Medicine. TDI’s priority focus areas include primary care, maternal and child health, behavioral and substance use disorders, geriatrics, and palliative care. Those whose research and quality improvement activities focus on advancing health equity are especially encouraged to apply (i.e., developing novel methods for health equity quality measurement, designing and testing interventions to reduce health disparities, or evaluating payment and policy approaches to advancing health equity.)

Dartmouth is committed to academic excellence and encourages the open exchange of ideas within a culture of mutual respect. People with different backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives make the Dartmouth community diverse, which enhances academic excellence. Applicants should address in their cover letter how their research, teaching, service, and/or life experiences prepare them to advance Dartmouth's commitment to diversity in service of academic excellence.

Applicants should upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, and teaching and mentoring statement and ask three referees to provide letters of recommendation.  Candidates should not include impact factors in their CV bibliographies. 

Cover letter: A summary of the impact and importance of your past research and future research goals, a statement on how your efforts in all areas (research, teaching, service) will be of benefit to the Geisel/Dartmouth academic community, and how Dartmouth/Geisel/TDI will benefit your academic program/aspirations. Address how your research, teaching, service, and/or life experiences prepare you to advance Dartmouth's commitment to diversity in service of academic excellence. 

Research Statement: Summarize past, current, and planned research and how your portfolio will complement and expand TDI’s current research portfolio. Emphasize how your work advances TDI’s mission to improve public health, reduce disparities, and create high-performing health systems.

Teaching and Mentoring statement: Please describe your teaching and mentoring philosophy, any formal training in teaching and mentoring you have received, and your track record of teaching and mentoring students from all backgrounds, including first-generation college students, low-income students, persons from diverse racial and ethnic groups, women, and the LGBTQ community. Please append an NIH-style mentoring table for pre-and post-doctoral mentees using these columns: years mentored, mentee name, mentee position & institution when mentored, number of papers with a mentee as first author, mentee’s grants (if relevant), and mentee’s current position.

Application review will begin on November 1, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. The target start date for this position is September 1, 2025 (negotiable).

Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other category protected by applicable law, in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, employment, or other school administered programs. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. 

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