Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Assistant / Associate Professor or rank commensurate with experience, CLINICAL Psychologist

Hiring Department : Department of Psychiatry

Location : 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL, 60608

Requisition ID : 1025660

Posting Close Date : 09 / 21 / 2024

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU / VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago.

UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges.

By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university.

Recent "Best Colleges" rankings published by U.S. News & World Report found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities.

UIC has over 300,000 alumni and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

Description :

The Department of Psychiatry and the Institute forJuvenile Research (IJR) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) incollaboration with Department of Pediatrics at the University of IllinoisCollege of Medicine at Peoria (UICOM-P) is seeking to hire a PediatricPsychologist to provide health psychology services to children andfamilies in Gastroenterology and Developmental Pediatrics.

The positionwill be based in Chicago and will provide telehealth services to children andfamilies in Peoria through an agreement with the Department of Pediatrics(UICOM-P) and Children's Hospital of Illinois.

There will be an expectation toprovide in person clinical care 2 days a month at the Peoria campus.

IJR hosts a nationally recognized PsychologyClinical Internship Training Program, and the Department of Psychiatry is among the top ranked departments by NIH funding with activeportfolios in anxiety and mood disorders, psychosis, late life depression,digital mental health, addictions, mental health services, and women's mentalhealth.

Dating back to 1909, IJR is regarded as the home of American childpsychiatry and was founded to advance the care of youth in Chicago.

Itshistoric mission continues to the present day and is expanding under theleadership of Dr. Niranjan Karnik.

A primary teaching hospital of UICOMP is the Children'sHospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center (CHOI), a tertiarycare facility serving a 37-county region with a population base of over twomillion.

CHOI provides comprehensive services to children, including Level IVNICU and a state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center.

CHOI is a majormedical facility with 124 beds and a 32-bed critical care unit and the onlyLevel 1 trauma center in Illinois outside of Chicago.

The Pediatric Gastroenterology Division at UICOMP has 7pediatric gastroenterologists. There is a very strong track record of clinicalresearch within the GI group including pediatric functional and motilitydisorders.

The group works closely with the Division of DevelopmentalPediatrics which treats children with feeding and swallowing disorders.

TheDivision Head of Developmental Pediatrics is a nationally known expert inpediatric feeding disorders. Our clinical services focus on diverse andvulnerable patients, serving minority and economically underserved populationsin Central Illinois.

Applicants must apply online at and reference requisition #1025660 and submit a CV, cover letter and threeletters of recommendation by September 21, 2024 .

The application review process will start immediatelyand will continue until the position is filled. The start date is flexible.

Qualifications :

Candidates must have a doctoral degree in Psychology andhave completed a health psychology postdoctoral fellowship. Candidates mustpossess or be eligible for licensure in the State of Illinois.

This non-tenuretrack position will have a combination of clinical effort and protected timefor research. The selected candidate will have an academic appointment in theDepartment of Psychiatry at the Assistant / Associate Professor rank,commensurate with experience, and will have teaching and supervision responsibilitiesfor residents, psychology interns and other trainees.

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