Job Description

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA invites applications and nominations for a nationally recognized academic physician to serve as the Chief of the UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases.

The UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases comprises a distinguished cadre of 40 faculty members across the full spectrum of clinical care, research, and education. The division includes comprehensive, high quality clinical care and research programs in general infectious diseases, infections in immunocompromised hosts (including those post-transplant), and HIV medicine. Clinical care is provided at the nationally reputed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and several outpatient clinics throughout Los Angeles County. With a total research portfolio of ~$59 million, the division includes research programs developing new treatments and cures for infectious diseases. The division trains future leaders through its multicampus fellowship program and an advanced clinical training program in transplant-related infectious diseases. The division’s renowned UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) and Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), provide state-of-the art medical care, conduct clinical trials for people living with HIV, and fund research across the translational science spectrum. The reach of the division extends worldwide through the Global Health Program. Housed within one of the largest departments of medicine in the country and located on the campus of an internationally renowned research university with a $1 billion research portfolio, the UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases is uniquely poised for transformational cross-disciplinary innovation and high-impact research.

This is a particularly dynamic time for the department and the next division chief, as the department implements a strategic plan to achieve its vision to lead in innovation, transform care, and advance health for all. The division chief reports to the Chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Executive Medical Director of the Department of Medicine at UCLA Health, Dr. E. Dale Abel, and works collaboratively with clinical, academic, and administrative leaders within these entities, to advance the mission of excellence in clinical care, education, research, and community engagement, while further elevating the division’s stature in the region and the nation. In addition, the chief cultivates a collegial, inclusive, and multidisciplinary culture consistent with the principles of the DGSOM’s Cultural North Star, providing mentorship to faculty members, trainees, and students while also upholding UCLA Health’s patient-experience model, CICARE.

The ideal candidate is a visionary academic physician with an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, education, clinical care, and service, who has demonstrated strong leadership skills and a track record of collaboration. The successful candidate will combine an exceptional research background and clinical acumen with superb communication skills and emotional intelligence, an inspiring strategic vision, a dedication to the mentorship and development of clinician scientists, PhD scientists, and clinician educators, and a deep commitment to fostering wellness in an equitable environment that is inclusive, humanistic, and respectful of diversity. All candidates must hold a MD or equivalent, have appropriate academic credentials for a tenured faculty appointment, be board-eligible in infectious disease, and be eligible for licensure in California.

Confidential inquiries, nominations, or submissions of interest (curriculum vitae and informative personal statement, as well as an EDI statement) are invited and will be considered until an appointment is made:

Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH,

Search Committee Chair
c/o Libby Shin, Executive Director, Office of the Chair of Medicine
Email: idchiefsearch@mednet.ucla.edu
To apply: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09730

The posted UC salary scales (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/compensation/index.html) set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See Table 5 – Faculty HSCP – Scale 7 https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t5-7.pdf). The salary range for this position is $193,200-$428,300.

This position includes membership in the health sciences compensation plan (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-670.pdf), which provides for eligibility for additional compensation.

The shared values of the DGSOM are expressed in the Cultural North Star, which was developed by members of our community and affirms our unswerving commitment to doing what’s right, making things better, and being kind. These are the standards to which we hold ourselves and one another. Please read
more about this important DGSOM program at https://medschool.ucla.edu/cultural-north-star.

We welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to the University of California commitment to diversity and excellence. We seek to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.

All aspects of searches are confidential and all candidates are expected to review and abide by UC Regents Policy 1111 on Statement on Ethical Values and Standards of Conduct [https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/1111.html].

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom departments or other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists’ current and prior places of employment to ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University’s Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release information with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the application will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted employment reference checks.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/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, age or protected veteran status.

For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnelprograms/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/AntiDiscrimination.

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