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Dermatology Open Rank Professor- College of Medicine

Position Number: 6112861
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Position Type: Medicine - Other Medicine

Dermatology Open Rank Professor- College of Medicine
Memphis, TN, United States

Job Identification: 2422
Job Category: Faculty
Posting Date: 03/31/2025
Job Schedule: Full Time
Locations: 920 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38163, US (On-site)

Job Description
The Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis offers an outstanding opportunity for an academic pediatric dermatologist. This is a full-time, non-tenure-track position (rank to be determined by credentials and experience).

Responsibilities
With strong support from the University and our local dermatology community, the Department of Dermatology has grown at UTHSC. Our faculty now includes three academic dermatopathologists, five medical dermatologists, and two full time pediatric dermatologists. We seek a third pediatric dermatologist to help care for our large, diverse pediatric population. This position involves a joint appointment with the Department of Pediatrics, whose Chair, Dr. Jon McCullers. Clinical work will involve both outpatient and inpatient consultation services at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and inpatient consultation privileges at St. Jude Children's Cancer Research Hospital. We serve a financially and ethnically diverse and often complicated patient population from Memphis and surrounding areas.

Areas of research focus at Le Bonheur include pediatric obesity and asthma, and research opportunities there or at St. Jude with start-up funding may be available for the right candidate. We have a long-standing successful residency program (first established in 1967), and all faculty are active in resident and medical student education.

Qualifications
Successful candidates must have an MD or DO degree and be eligible for full, unrestricted medical licensure in the state of Tennessee. Candidates must be board-certified/ board eligible and fellowship training in pediatric dermatology is required.

Departmental Preferences:

We seek a third pediatric dermatologist to help care for our large, diverse pediatric population. This position involves a joint appointment with the Department of Pediatrics. A candidate with an interest and/or expertise in the management of complex pediatric dermatologic diseases, as well as infectious diseases or skin diseases in immunosuppressed children, will be particularly attractive.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is the flagship statewide, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering integrated, collaborative, and inclusive education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UTHSC contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Science Center is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT's doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UTHSC spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UTHSC is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state's largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs.

Located in West Tennessee on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis is the second-largest city in the state and among the largest cities in the Southeast. The Greater Memphis metropolitan area has more than 1.3 million residents, and the city ranks among those with the lowest cost of living in the country. It is home to a vibrant restaurant scene, a revitalized Downtown, the Midtown Arts District, many scenic neighborhoods, an active medical district, and a burgeoning airport in the midst of a $214 million modernization.

Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley's Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

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