Adolescent Medicine Specialist

Overview

Hiring Range
:
Dependent on Experience and Qualifications

Department
:
General Pediatrics - 412009

Posting Open Date
: 03/28/2025

Open Until Filled
:
Yes

Position Type
:
Permanent Faculty

Working Title
:
Adolescent Medicine Specialist

Appointment Type
:
Fixed Term Faculty

Vacancy : FAC
0005517

Full-time/Part-time
:
Full-Time Permanent

Hours Per Week
: 40

Fte
: 1

Position Location
:
North Carolina, US

Proposed Start Date
: 06/02/2025

Be a Tar Heel! A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top public universities. Known for its campus, medical care, arts, and athletic programs, Chapel Hill offers diverse opportunities for faculty, staff and learners. UNC-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package and various programs that support work/life balance.

The UNC School of Medicine aims to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others by providing leadership and excellence in patient care, education, and research. It strives to foster faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment and to optimize partnership with the UNC Health System.

Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked in primary care education and NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department hosts top-ranked divisions and departments in NIH funding.

To improve health and well-being through patient care, education, and research, with emphasis on underserved populations and reducing health disparities.

• Patient Care: Promote health and provide superb clinical care while reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
• Education: Prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals through innovative curricula and interprofessional education; recruit a diverse workforce.
• Research: Support a wide range of health sciences research programs and collaboration across disciplines, including basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Department of Pediatrics seeks to hire an Adolescent Medicine physician to join the Adolescent Medicine Section in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (GPAM) at UNC Chapel Hill. Applicants should be board-certified or board-eligible in Adolescent Medicine. This is an open-rank, fixed term faculty position in the School of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill.

As a faculty member, this individual will join a section that includes board-certified Adolescent Medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, LCSWs, and other pediatricians with interest in adolescent health. Responsibilities include outpatient care at Raleigh and/or Chapel Hill clinical settings. Inpatient consultative care is delivered on an as-needed basis with potential expansion as the section grows. There are opportunities to provide medical care at youth detention centers and a youth psychiatric inpatient facility.

The section collaborates in a Hematology-Adolescent Medicine clinic for menstrual disorders in patients with sickle cell disease and other hematologic disorders; with the UNC Center for Excellence for Eating Disorders; and a Gender Wellness Clinic. There are opportunities to expand to other outpatient specialty collaborative clinics.

The GPAM division has a national research program and teaching excellence. Research areas include social determinants of health, childhood adversity, and health inequities. Adolescent Medicine research includes telehealth in consent and confidentiality, contraceptive decision-making tools, reproductive health autonomy, global health and HIV prevention, and eating disorders outcomes. Faculty may engage in medical education efforts, such as teaching, curriculum oversight, and rotation supervision.

The GPAM division is large and includes Primary Care and Child Maltreatment. The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area offers a high quality of life for living and working.

M.D.;
Fellowship-trained and Board certified/eligible in Adolescent Medicine.

Experience in medical education and/or contributions to academic scholarship.

Not Applicable.