Transplant Psychologist

Faculty

Description

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department:
Psychiatry

Job Title:

Transplant Psychologist

Open Rank-Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Professor

Position # - Requisition #38033

The Department of Psychiatry has an opening for a Psychologist on the Transplant Team at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. The Department of Psychiatry (DOP) collaborates closely with a broad range of clinical departments at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) to provide integrated behavioral health care in primary and specialty medical settings. Psychologists from the DOP provide integrated consultation services to the UCH Transplant Center.

Services are provided in an outpatient and medical inpatient setting for heart, lung, kidney, pancreas, and/or liver recipients as well as living liver or kidney donors. The psychologist in this role will also be a team member on the DOP Adult Division Integrated Behavioral Health Service.

The psychologist recruited for this full-time position will become part of the DOP growing and dynamic Adult Division. This is an open rank position and could be categorized as Instructor, Senior Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor based on experience and qualifications as indicated below.

• Psychological Assessment & Intervention:
  • Conduct psychological evaluations, including interview and appropriate testing, for living donors and organ transplant candidates.
  • Conduct comprehensive assessments of areas including addiction, mental health conditions, trauma, neurocognitive disorders, as well as other areas which may impact transplant success.
  • Provide brief psychological intervention for patients with complex chronic health concerns.
• Multidisciplinary
  
  Collaboration:
  
  
  • Liaison with interdisciplinary team providers including physicians, social workers, dietitians, and nurses, to coordinate and ensure optimal comprehensive care.
  • Present case summaries and participate in case discussions to determine transplant candidacy during transplant selection of committee meetings.
• Education:
  • Provide supervision to psychology and psychiatry trainees, completing training on the transplant psychology service.
• Research and scholarship:
  • Work collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary transplant teams to develop clinical practice protocols to develop cutting edge transplant care.
  • Lead and participate in scholarly projects in solid organ transplantation.
• Program Development:
  • Join dynamic and growing transplant center, and integrative behavioral health team developing novel approaches to patient.

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located at UCHealth, Aurora Colorado.

The CU Department of Psychiatry sets the standard for education and training of leaders in psychiatry and mental health care. We conduct groundbreaking research to alleviate suffering caused by psychiatric and substance use disorders, provide access to state-of-the-art mental health prevention and intervention services, and collaborate with key interested parties to promote well-being across Colorado. We are dedicated to serving a community in which we value all people and have a continued commitment to this goal in our clinical, treatment, research and educational activities.

The CU Anschutz Medical Campus is a world‑class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education, and patient care. The campus encompasses the CU health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year. Innovative, interconnected and highly collaborative, the CU Anschutz Medical Campus delivers life‑changing treatments, patient care and professional training and conducts world‑renowned research fueled by over $705 million in research grants and also ranked the 12th academic institution in the nation for health sciences research and 19th globally.

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Why work for the University?

• Medical:
  Multiple plan options
• Dental:
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• Additional Insurance:
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