The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine invites applications for an Assistant / Associate / Full Professor position in the Division of Psychiatric Services Research. This position is for a health services researcher or interventions researcher with training and experience in the field of mental health care including substance abuse treatment services, and is open to any faculty rank. Candidates may be appointed on either the tenure- or research-faculty track, depending on qualifications and preference. Candidates must have a PhD, MD, or other doctoral degree in health services research, pharmaceutical science, economics, computer science, psychology, health policy, epidemiology, or related field. Successful candidates will have either a record of external research funding or strong potential to obtain external funding for services research and/or intervention research projects. This is a full-time research position funded by both internal and external sources.
The Division of Psychiatric Services Research conducts psychiatric research in health care policy, health economics, applied psychology, pharmaceutical science, community psychiatry, co-occurring disorders, integrated care, behavioral interventions, and other areas of psychiatric care. The Division generates more than $5 million annually in external research funding, and has existing research partnerships with clinical divisions of the Department of Psychiatry, with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Capitol Healthcare Network (VISN5) Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Center, and with the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration. The Division maintains a comprehensive research infrastructure to support clinical interventions research as well as several large databases for administrative data projects, including data from Medicaid and Medicare claims, the Health Care Utilization Project, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, and the State of Maryland Public Mental Health System. For more information, see:
http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/psychiatry/Divisions/Division-of-Psychiatric-Services-Research/
The University of Maryland, School of Medicine, is located on the University of Maryland-Baltimore campus near Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Camden Yards. The Baltimore Washington International Airport is 5 miles away, and Washington D.C. is 40 miles away.
The University of Maryland Baltimore is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply
