Vice Chair of Research

**The Alfred and Gail Engelberg Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the Institute for Family Health, is recruiting a Vice Chair for Research to join a vibrant and growing team.**

We are seeking an individual who will conduct innovative, rigorous, grant-funded research, engage in scholarly activities (peer-reviewed publications and presentations), and contribute to mentorship of other faculty members and medical trainees.

The researcher will join a world-class academic institution and a growing department. The department is led by a renowned Chair with over thirty years of research, teaching, and advocacy experience. The Chair is dedicated to promoting a diverse and innovative department and strongly encourages researchers from underrepresented groups to apply. The Chair and department collaborate extensively with other academic departments at Mount Sinai on research efforts in areas including health disparities, chronic diseases, genetics, and integrative therapies.

The ideal candidate would be a doctorate-level researcher or family physician with training in Behavioral Sciences, Translational Basic Science, Public Health, Social Sciences, Health Services Research, Bioinformatics, or other related fields. Candidates with research experience relevant to underserved populations will be given special consideration. The candidate must have a track record as Principal Investigator on NIH-funded (or similar stature) research.

The Department, launched in 2012, is a collaboration between the Icahn School of Medicine and the Institute for Family Health. It is the only full academic department of family medicine at any Manhattan medical school and is uniquely blended to advance family medicine education and research in the pursuit of creating healthier families and communities in underserved settings. The Institute for Family Health serves more than 100,000 patients from New York City and the mid-Hudson Valley annually through a network of 29 federally qualified health centers and runs three family medicine residency programs, one nurse practitioner residency program, and four post-graduate fellowship programs

MD/DO, MD/PhD, DO/PhD compensation range from 250K to 350K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits).

PhD compensation range from 145K to 250K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits).

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**Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:**

**Alex Cano**

**Executive Director Physician Recruitment**

**Mount Sinai Health System**

**Alex.cano@mountsinai.org**

**Strength Through Diversity**

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

+ Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

+ Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

+ Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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**"About the Mount Sinai Health System:**

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

**EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans**

**Requisition ID** : 2300002J