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Form of workIn an era where healthcare is evolving at an unprecedented pace, Wake Forest University School of Medicine stands at the forefront of innovation, collaboration, and patient-centered impact. With an unwavering commitment to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing, we are shaping the future of healthcare through bolstering our commitment to being a next-generation academic Learning Health System (aLHS). With an increasingly diverse patient population, we are seeking to bridge the gap quicker between scientific discoveries and their practical applications in real-world healthcare settings.
To do this, we are launching faculty searches for Clinically Embedded Scholars, who will be critical to the realization of an effective aLHS. Our institution thrives on collaboration, recognizing that solving complex healthcare challenges demands a collective effort. As part of a vibrant academic and clinical environment, we encourage multidisciplinary partnerships that span departments, centers, and institutes, magnifying the impact of patient-centered care that keeps patients safe, promotes healing, and includes, informs, and inspires patients.
The ideal Health Services Researcher would work collaboratively across this Academic Learning Health System to generate and support surgical research. Our vision is to create a leadership culture that advances surgical science, transforms education, and inspires innovation to be the first and best choice for comprehensive, interdisciplinary surgical care.
Candidates who have demonstrated methodological expertise in the areas of policy, economic or program evaluation, pragmatic trials, population health theory and behavior, statistical analysis of large administrative, claims, registry or electronic medical record datasets, implementation and dissemination research, or learning health systems are of particular interest. The researcher will be expected to help advance the extramural portfolio of the department, and leadership opportunities are available.
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a medical or healthcare multidisciplinary setting
- Evidence of obtaining extramural research funding
- Strong quantitative and methodological skills, including causal inference using observational data
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including a track-record of publications in peer-review journals
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Doctoral degree
- At the Associate or Full Professor Level
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery has 81 full-time clinical faculty and seven PhD translational and basic science researchers, and all Faculty have access to academic appointments at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The Divisions in the Department of Surgery include Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hepatopancreatic and Biliary (HPB) Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Surgical Oncology. The general surgery residency matches six categorical residents per year, and Fellowship programs are offered in seven areas of surgery.
Organizational Overview
In October 2020, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health officially joined together as a single enterprise under the name Atrium Health. Atrium Health is an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Charlotte, NC. As part of this new enterprise, Atrium Health is providing $3.4 billion for planned investments in our health system and the communities we serve; $600 million alone is focused on advancing Wake Forest's academic mission. The Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is the academic core of Atrium Health and is building a second campus of the School of Medicine in Charlotte, North Carolina. The new strategic partnership between Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health has created an unparalleled opportunity for Health Services Research in a diverse catchment area of over 7 million residents across four states in the Southeastern United States.
If you have any questions, please contact Kassie Walters - Sr. HR Consultant - at kaswalte@wakehealth.edu.
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. WFUSM, has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise.
Atrium Health is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. AHWFB is an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians.
Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing - for all.
It should be noted that while you are applying on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Career Site, you will receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process. Thanks in advance for your flexibility.
