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Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & VP of Psychiatric Services and Research, KKI

Employer
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Location
Baltimore, Maryland (US)
Closing date
Aug 16, 2019

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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine seeks candidates for the position of Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Johns Hopkins School Medicine ranks 2nd among medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding. The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks among the best in the country for its exceptional care for complex cases.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a distinguished teaching, research and clinical faculty, with over $50 million in extramural research funding and many outstanding clinicians who are national and international leaders in their respective subspecialty areas. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division includes 60 faculty members, a 15-bed inpatient unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and outpatient clinics located at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.

The Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division is the leader of all aspects of the Division’s enterprise, serving as the spokesperson for the faculty, and represents the Division in interactions with the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospitals, and the School of Medicine, and with practitioners in the region, and nationally. Responsibilities include faculty recruitment and appointments; educational, clinical and research programs; fiscal planning and management; and short- and long-term strategic planning.

The candidate will also serve as Vice President of Psychiatric Services and Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI). The KKI, located on the Hopkins campus, is focused on children with disorders of the brain, including those with intellectual disabilities and autism, and the sequelae of trauma. Clinical care and research are conducted in behavioral psychology, neuropsychology, the clinical trials unit, the neurobehavioral unit, and the Center for Autism and Related Disorders.

Candidates must have previous records consistent with appointment as a tenured Professor of Psychiatry. This includes an MD degree or equivalent, an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, teaching, and service, eligibility for licensure in Maryland; and certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The successful candidate should have the demonstrated capacity to foster an environment in which excellence in teaching, research and scholarship flourish, as well as experience in and a commitment to developing and leading clinical programs. Candidates should have a record of innovative and effective administrative and fiscal leadership, national stature in academic psychiatry, a record of excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated experience promoting a diverse workforce, and positive interactions with students, staff and faculty.

Contact Info for Head of Search Committee: James “Jimmy” Potash, MD, MPH, Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 410-955-3130, jpotash@jhmi.edu; Assistant: Jamie Elswick, jelswick@jhmi.edu 

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