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UT Health Associate Dean for Research in Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas
Associate Dean for Research
Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas
Category: Faculty
Jane and Robert Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
Requisition #: 240002FO
Associate Dean for Research
Cizik School of Nursing
The Cizik School of Nursing (CSON), at UTHealth Houston, is recruiting its next Associate Dean for Research (ADR) to advance its commitment to research development through education, training, and mentorship. Open due to an upcoming retirement, this is an exceptional opportunity to lead a highly reputable and growing research departmentlocated in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center.
The ADR will manage the department’s daily operations and play a key role in shaping its strategic direction in nursing research by staying abreast of national trends. This role involves collaborating with faculty, students, and stakeholders to strengthen research capabilities, support interdisciplinary projects, and integrate research into teaching, training, and clinical practice. Additionally, the ADR will act as a liaison and facilitator for inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research and research training initiatives.
Currently ranked 18th in Blue Ridge NIH funding and rising, CSON has over $6.4 million in federal grants, 23 faculty, and over two dozen staff. The department offers outstanding interprofessional collaborations across UTHealth Houston and the Texas Medical center. The department of research’s Center for Nursing Research (CNR) boasts an 11-seat, state of the art laboratory and provides the capability to perform CLIA testing and a wide range of services to support faculty and students in developing robust programs of research to advance nursing science and improve health care for all.
The school of nursing leads UTHealth Houston’s interdisciplinary Cizik Nursing Research Institute, which provides rich resources to support nursing science. Recent grant awards include a Roybal P30 to fund the Roybal Center on Elder Mistreatment Intervention Research and a U-grant to assess a self-managed auricular point acupressure app for use in rural communities.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be on a tenure track at the Associate Professor or Professor rank with a program of research, a doctoral degree in nursing (PhD or DrPH) and have a demonstrated commitment to research, education, faculty development and practice. To confidentially request more information or nominate a colleague, please contact the Office of Executive Recruitment via email atShalan.e.Mitchell@uth.tmc.eduor phone at 713-500-3251.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
UTHealth Benefits
UTHealth Houston offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. For more information on our benefits programs please refer to the UTHealth Houston Office of Benefits Website.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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