Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor

The Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University seeks research faculty to join the Center as Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor in the University Tenure Line (UTL) or the Medical Center line (MCL). We are seeking dynamic individuals to bring intellectual leadership and rigorous scholarship within the Center’s research focus. 

The Center’s focus is the discovery of scalable methods of high-quality healthcare delivery that lower population-wide health spending.  Please visit CERC’s website for further background. We especially encourage candidates who examine how information technology tools enable higher-value care at scale via applications such as decision support, workflow support, information exchange, and emerging forms of artificial intelligence.

We seek faculty doing cutting-edge research across nationally representative healthcare systems, populations, and payers. Candidates should have an MD or PhD degree before January 2020 and a distinguished record relative to their career stage in scholarly achievement and (a) policy influence (b) research funding from diverse sources and/or (c) effective teaching.  

The predominant criterion for appointment in the University Tenure Line is a major commitment to research and teaching. The major criteria for appointment for faculty in the Medical Center Line shall be excellence in the overall mix of clinical care, clinical teaching, and scholarly activity that advances clinical medicine, and institutional service appropriate to the programmatic need the individual is expected to fulfill.  Faculty rank and line will be determined by the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. Faculty will be appointed to the Stanford Division, Department and School best matched to their research focus and credentials. 

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the University’s research, teaching and clinical missions.

Interested candidates should submit their curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and a not to-exceed-one paragraph description of up to three examples of success in each of the four categories (a), (b) and (c) listed above to: http://facultyapplication.stanford.edu/. For applicants that are less than 12 months from the actual or expected date of receiving a doctoral degree additionally please submit three letters of reference from faculty members with whom you have most closely worked conveying their perspective on your likelihood of distinguishing yourself in scholarly achievement, policy influence research funding from diverse sources and effective teaching.  

*Your references will not be contacted until we have your consent.