Assistant or Associate Professor - Toronto, Canada - University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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Toronto, Canada

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Description

Date Posted:03/20/2023

Closing Date: 04/30/2023, 11:59PM ET

Req ID: 30365

Job Category:
Faculty - Clinical

Faculty/Division:
Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Department:
Dept of Medicine

Hospital Affiliation:

Campus:
St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

Rheumatology at the University of Toronto encompasses a large, multi-centered group of clinicians, teachers, educators, and researchers.

We provide unparalleled care for patients with complex, chronic rheumatologic disease and aim to advance care by studying pathogenesis, biomarkers, therapeutics, and clinical outcomes.

We are excited to be training the next generation of rheumatology clinicians, teachers and scientists.

The Division of Rheumatology is embedded within the academically focused Department of Medicine and supported by the benefits of the highly regarded University of Toronto.

The vision of the Lupus Program is to find the cure for patients with systemic lupus.

The Program works to increase our understanding of SLE aetiology and progression and to help discover new treatments and prevention measures in order to improve the lives of those afflicted.

(See below for further details)

Applications will be accepted until April 30, 2023.

Should you be interested in this opportunity, please forward a letter of interest, an up-to-date curriculum vitae and the names/contact information of 3 suitable references to:
Dr Nigil Haroon, Division Head, Rheumatology

University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital

1E-425, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto Western Hospital,

Toronto, ON. M5T 2S8. Canada.

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UHN Lupus Program

Program Vision and Mission

The vision of the Lupus Program is to find the cure for patients with SLE.

The Program, by leading the international research community in better understanding the disease course and discovering new treatments and prevention measures, will improve the lives of those afflicted.

The ambition of Lupus Program is to continue to be the driving force behind the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Inception Cohort Registry and other research cohorts and national and international collaborations.

Our mission is to innovatively find answers in a cultivating environment that fosters collaboration to address the issues of defining personalized medicine for our patients, reduce the reliance on glucocorticoids as a primary treatment, better define and promote brain and bone complications, and prevent long-term complication such as heart disease.

Our approach has been to carefully phenotype patients with SLE over time, and to establish a biobank linked to clinical assessments.

Our Program has the capacity to study both clinical and biological features of the disease.

To date we have developed an excellent program and have been leaders in the development of valid instruments to assess patients.

More recently our program has been able to establish the NeuroLupus Program with a focus on cognitive function and depressive symptoms.

We intend to expand our program to strengthen our work in molecular biomarkers as predictors of disease outcomes and response to therapy with particular interest in lupus nephritis with the ultimate goal of being able to provide personalized and targeted treatment for patients with SLE.

This will be achieved by strengthening our team by recruiting an internationally reputed clinician investigator with expertise in SLE outcomes measures and novel biomarkers studies who shares our vision and is committed to these goals and have already developed methodology in some of these areas.

Usual Job Components for a Clinician Investigator

Clinical Activities:
(40-50% of professional time)

Teaching Activities:
(approximately 10% of time but fluctuates over time)

Pedagogic activities will include formal teaching of medical students and teaching clinical clerks, residents and fellows during ward rounds and consult service.

Will also participate in core teaching of medical residents and rheumatology specialty residents.

Research Activities:
(50% of professional time)

Administration:
(5-10% of professional time)

All members of our division are expected to participate in committees and/or other divisional/departmental activities, commensurate with their position, seniority and subspecialty expertise.