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Associate Professor or Professor (Neuropathologist)
Position Number: 08Y157 Department: Boonshoft School of Medicine Full-time/Part-time Status: 100% FTE Salary Minimum: Negotiable Pay Grade: NA Submit: Curriculum vitae and three professional references. Apply to: Paul Koles, MD., Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Pathology 125 White Hall, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy., Dayton, OH 45435 Closing Date: November 30, 2007 for first consideration, open until filled. Education and Experience: MD, DO, MBBS, or equivalent degree. Completion of anatomic pathology residency and neuropathology fellowship. Minimum three years experience as educator of medical students, residents, or fellows. Proven scholarly productivity. Qualifications for medical licensure in State of Ohio. Certification in both anatomic pathology and neruopathology by the American Board of Pathology. Preferred: At least five years experience in medical education, with demonstrated expertise in undergraduate medical education. Professor: The following criteria are those ordinarily expected for appointment or promotion to professor. For the academic rank of professor the candidate must have documented evidence of sustained and high performance recognized by peers in his/her field at the national level. The value of professional achievements may be documented by testimonial letters. Criteria: Degree: Candidates must hold the terminal (M.D., Ph.D., etc.) degree in their fields. Certification. Physician faculty should have board certification in pathology or related specialties. Other faculty members shall be certified in their fields if such certification is available or applicable. Time in previous rank. A minimum of five years at the associate professor level is ordinarily required to demonstrate the sustained superior performance expected for appointment or advancement to professor. Academic activity. Pathology Investigators: Sustained an superior performance is research. Performance will be documented by major responsibility for an independent research program, leadership role in a collaborative research effort or sustained clinical research effort. This will combine activities in the top tier of research and scholarship including: a minimum of 15 articles in peer-reviewed journals, the majority published while at the rank of Associate Professor and reflecting ongoing scholarly efforts; a sustained record of extramural funding through research grants, contracts or training grants. Evidence of activity in teaching and service at a minimum at the middle tier is expected. Pathology Educators: Sustained superior performance in pathology education and laboratory. Performance will be documented by major responsibility for educational and/or clinical programs as well as significant impact from the nominee's efforts. This will combine activities at the top tiers of teaching and service including: a minimum of seven articles from peer-reviewed journals, the majority published while at the rank of Associate Professor and reflecting ongoing scholarly efforts; outstanding teaching performance as documented by learner evaluations and awards development, implementation and evaluation of innovative teaching and pathology programs. The candidate should have an outstanding local reputation as a pathologist or pathology educator and preferably, recognition at the regional or national levels. External letters of support from five peers should evaluate the candidate's scholarly activities and document the candidate's professional recognition. The external evaluators should be experts in the candidate's field and should hold at least the rank of professor if they have an academic appointment. These letters should not be testimonial in character and should not be based on promotion criteria at the writers' institutions. The writers should not be current or past collaborators, chairs, mentors or students of the candidate. These letters will be solicited from the departmental FDPC chair. The candidate may select four of the five referees; the committee one. Associate Professor: For the academic rank of associate professor the candidate must have documented evidence of sustained and high quality performance that is recognized by peers in his/her field within the local community of scholars as well as at the state, and regional levels. The value of professional achievements may be documented by testimonial letters. Criteria: Degree. Candidates must hold the terminal degree in their fields. Certification. Pathology faculty should have board certification in their specialties or subspecialties. Other faculty members shall be certified in their fields if such certification is available or applicable. Time in previous rank. A minimum of five years at the assistant professor level is ordinarily required to demonstrate the sustained superior performance expected for appointment or advancement to associate professor. Pathology Investigators: Sustained and superior performance in research will be documented by having developed an independent research program, playing a leadership role in the development of a collaborative research effort, or a sustained clinical research effort. This will combine activities in the middle and top tiers of research and scholarship including: a minimum of 5 articles in peer-reviewed journals from work done at WSU while at the rank of Assistant Professor; designation as principal investigator on extramural research grants, contracts or training grants. Evidence of activity in teaching and service at least at the middle tier is also expected. Pathology Educators: Sustained and superior performance in Pathology education and clinical laboratory. Performance will be documented through demonstrating major responsibility for educational and clinical laboratory programs as well as significant impact from the nominee's efforts. This will be demonstrated through activity at the top tiers of teaching and service including: a minimum of 2 articles in peer-reviewed journals from work done at WSU while at the rank of Assistant Professor; outstanding teaching performance as documented by learner evaluations and awards; development of innovative teaching and clinical programs. The candidate should have an outstanding local reputation as a pathologists or pathology educator and, preferably, recognition at the regional or national levels. External letters of support from five peers should evaluate the candidate's scholarly activities and document the candidate's professional recognition. The external evaluators should be experts in the field of the candidate and should hold at least the rank of professor, if they have an academic appointment. These letters should not be testimonial in character and they should not be based on promotion criteria at the writers' institutions. The writers should not be current or past collaborators, chairs, mentors or students of the candidate. These letters will be solicited from the Departmental FDPC chair. The candidate may select four of the five referees, the committee one. Assistant Professor: The academic rank of assistant professor is ordinarily an entry rank for faculty members. Candidates must hold the terminal degree in their fields, have completed training in their disciplines, and demonstrated effective performance in their disciplines that is recognized b their peers. Board certification and/or postdoctoral training/experience are required. Preferred: At least five years experience in medical education, with demonstrated expertise in undergraduate medical education. Working Conditions: Full-time office in department of pathology, Boonshoft School of Medicine; road travel within Greater Dayton area will be required. Note: Length of appointment: One year-renewable appointment. Position Description: EDUCATION 1. coordinate all aspects of pathology-related education in the second-year medical neuroscience course, parts 1 and 2. This involves cooperation with the course director and other faculty in course design, implementation, assignment of faculty duties, choice of educational methods, and assessment tools. 2. contribute to education of first and second-year medical students in the preclinical integrated curriculum. 3. cooperate with neurologists in the education of 4th-year medical students on required neurology clerkship. 4. contribute to the education of neurosurgical residents (Grandview Hospital) and forensic pathology fellows (Montgomery County Coroners Office) DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES IN NEUROPATHOLOGY 1. perform all CNS examinations for Boonshoft SOM regional postmortem service. 2. provide consultations and/or sign out surgical neuropathology cases at Dayton area hospitals. 3 . provide consultations for CNS examinations at the Montgomery County Coroners Office. 4. provide consultations in neuropathology as requested by physicians outside Dayton area. RESEARCH 1. continue established collaborative research relationships with investigators outside of Boonshoft SOM. 2. establish collaborative research relationships with WSU faculty, especially faculty in the SOM. 3. establish collaborative research relationships with clinicians and neuroscientists at Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute, Kettering Medical Center. 4. continue independent or collaborative clinical-pathologic research in surgical neuropathology, autopsy neuropathology, or forensic neuropathology.
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