Emergency Medicine Research Faculty - Assistant & Associate Or Full Professor

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AST/ ASO/FULL PROF

The University of Florida Department of Emergency Medicine - Jacksonville is seeking a full‑time board‑certified emergency physician leader with experience in federally funded research and industry clinical trials. Located in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida, the Department of Emergency Medicine is one of the oldest and well‑established Emergency Medicine programs in the country. Tenured and non‑tenured academic multi‑mission tracks are available dependent on applicant experience and background.

Responsibilities include research, patient care, and teaching. This position will be supported by a robust existing departmental research infrastructure with protected time and potential for transition to an assistant or associate chair leadership position.

UF Health Jacksonville’s main clinical campus includes a 639‑bed urban teaching hospital, ACS accredited Level 1 Trauma Center, separate pediatric emergency and observation units, regional poison center, and simulation center located in downtown Jacksonville. The department supports a nationally recognized residency training program and fellowships in pediatric emergency medicine, ultrasound, research, education, and patient safety. UF Health North is a rapidly growing community hospital with over 200 beds and a 35‑bed emergency department.

Additional clinical sites include 3 new state of the art freestanding transitional EDs and UF Health Wildlight Urgent Care. Our clinical sites offer varied patient populations providing ideal environments for clinical practice, teaching, and research with combined ED visits of over 195,000 patients per year. The University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville includes Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, an Office of Research Affairs, the Center for Data Solutions, and the Institute for Population Health.

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This position will offer opportunities to expand on the current emergency medicine research portfolio while providing vision and leadership for the department's continued journey as a national leader in federally funded grants (NIH, HRSA, CDC, SAMHSA, etc.) and industry sponsored clinical, device, and biomarker studies. Current areas of research focus include pain management, adult and pediatric EMS, pediatric asthma, heart failure, pharmacogenomics, posttraumatic sequelae, toxicology, sepsis and infectious diseases.

The Division of EM Research manages approximately 80 projects and 60 active IRBs with annual funding of $9 million in federal, private foundation, and industry funded grants and programs including an EM Research Biosafety Level 2 laboratory for specimen processing and storage. Experienced clinical research coordinator coverage is provided 7 days per week including evenings. Departmental research staff include a PhD associate director, assistant director of clinical trials, research administrative specialist, IRB and REDCap coordinator, full and part‑time clinical research coordinators, program managers, and student interns.

All coordinators are certified phlebotomists. The Division administers the successful Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI) and the Florida Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) State Partnership Program. Research faculty have ongoing collaborations with numerous University of Florida colleges and departments for successful cross campus research. The Department participates in several multi‑university research networks.

With more than 6,200 faculty and staff, UF Health in Jacksonville is the largest UF campus outside of Gainesville. UF Health physicians offer primary care and specialty services in practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, tallying more than 650,000 outpatient visits and more than 40,000 inpatient admissions annually.

• UF Health Jacksonville, an academic health center near Downtown Jacksonville and home to the area's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma program
• UF Health North, a 92‑bed hospital and…