Mary W. Gulbrandsen and Carl E. Gulbrandsen Chair in Health Systems Innovation

Degree and area of specialization:Doctoral degree required with specialization in health services research and systems improvement

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:10 years of progressive, combined research and faculty experience.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

- National /international recognition as a leader in research designed to discover solutions for the transformation of health care.

- Excellence in teaching and mentoring and a vision for improving educational program development to prepare leaders in health systems change.

- Significant program of externally funded, interdisciplinary research related to health system innovation and improvement.

- Distinguished record of scholarship with publications in influential journals, and service to professional and scholarly organizations at the national level.

- Academic and professional credentials sufficient for appointment at the rank of Professor with tenure.

The preferred candidate will have an established program of health services/health systems research that can contribute to ongoing efforts to improve effectiveness and efficiency of health care. Examples of priority areas may include (but not be limited to) one or more of the following areas:

- Design and evaluation of novel system-level approaches to improve healthcare safety.

- Understanding and improving transitions in care delivery.

- Systems approaches to improving care for vulnerable populations

- Evaluation of emerging technological approaches to improve care delivery.

- Improving models for team-based healthcare delivery.

- Large scale data analytics.

Principal duties:A full range of research, teaching, and service commensurate with a tenured appointment is required. A significant program of externally-funded, interdisciplinary research is required. Responsibilities include teaching in graduate and undergraduate nursing programs, graduate nursing student advising and research mentoring of PhD nursing students; attracting and helping to support graduate students, active collaboration relationships with other campus research units, health care and key policy leaders, and school, university and professional service commensurate with appointment. The Mary W. Gulbrandsen and Carl E. Gulbrandsen Chair will provide leadership within the School of Nursing, at the campus level, regionally and nationally.