Assistant​/Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate​/Clinical Associate Professor; EHRA Faculty

Position Number: 000672

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Anticipated Recruitment Range: Commensurate with qualifications

Position Type: Faculty (Teaching)

Job Category: Faculty (Physician)

ECU Health Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is dedicated to providing excellence in education, patient care, scholarship, and service in mental health. We strive to foster a collaborative environment committed to improving the health and well‑being of the people of eastern North Carolina and beyond. We support and advance evidence‑based practice, sound scientific principles, and compassion in addressing the needs of our learners, our patients, our colleagues and our community.

ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare have announced plans to build a state‑of‑the‑art, 144‑bed behavioral health facility that will open in the spring of 2025. The new facility will include 24 inpatient beds dedicated to the mental health needs of children and adolescents.

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Downtown Greenville Partnership district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine and Pitt Community College.

Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

• Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh and a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of North Carolina.
• Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students.
• Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping.
• Mild climate perfect for year‑round outdoor activities.
• Cost of living below the national average, affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private.
• Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville's revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses and residents to the area.

ECU Health is a mission‑driven, 1,708‑bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not‑for‑profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children's Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well‑being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is a shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment of clinical care, research and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

This is a full‑time faculty position to serve as the Associate Medical Director for the Inpatient Psychiatry Service. This 52‑bed service houses acute beds, combined MI‑, and combined Med‑Psych beds in a 900+ bed tertiary care academic medical center serving Eastern and coastal North Carolina. This position will serve as the lead psychiatrist for the Med‑Psych program housed in the inpatient service.

The hospital provides acute, intermediate,…