Open Rank Professor-Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee, is seeking a full-time non-tenure track Psychiatrist for adult outpatient and adult consultation liaison, emergency psychiatry, and outpatient psychiatry. This is an Open Rank faculty position.

The department hosts a rich training and clinical program, with psychiatric care and training at Alliance Behavioral Health, Lakeside Behavioral Health, the Memphis Veterans Administration hospital, the Memphis Mental Health Institute, Regional One Health, UT University Clinical Health, the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We train about 175 medical students per year, and sponsor a Psychiatry Residency, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, and a Post-pediatric Portal Fellowship.

This position consists of clinical care, clinical supervision of trainees, departmental and university service, and teaching. There are options for protected research time for appropriate applicants. Active areas of biomedical research include prospective clinical and clinical trials in addiction, pain in aging, cancer, and dementia, large neuroimaging database analyses, and clinical trials in child and adolescent psychiatry.

EDUCATION: MD, DO, or equivalent.

LICENSES: Board certification or board eligible. Completion of an accredited residency or equivalent, as permitted by state law, is required and sub-certifications/training are highly preferred. International Medical Graduates are encouraged to apply. Current licensure as a Physician in Tennessee, current DEA certification number, and eligible for malpractice insurance. Relocation is not required; however the work is onsite.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and a curriculum vitae to:

Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD, FAPA

Harrison Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry

College of Medicine UT Health Sciences

Email: rcowan3@uthsc.edu

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