Tenure-track Positions
Community Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship and Rural Primary Care
School of Pharmacy -- University of Waterloo, Canada
The School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, has created a unique Pharmacy Program, that emphasizes innovative academic excellence, while embracing practical "real world" experience. This convergence attracts collaborative, entrepreneurial partnerships in education, research and patient care.
To illustrate, we are announcing a collaboration with front line partners, to create positions whose focus will be to confront community based health care issues. Research in these settings is needed, with an outcome that targets broad applicability.
We are looking for TWO (see below) creative, enthusiastic and forward-thinking Faculty Members, who share this vision, to join our ground-breaking academic team.
The University of Waterloo has ranked as an institution in Canada which develops the "most innovative and most likely to produce leaders of tomorrow." It is also well known for attracting entrepreneurial, dynamic Faculty.
Living in Kitchener/Waterloo, one of Canada’s fastest growing communities, means that you are likely to commute less than 30 minutes to work, enjoy the best of vibrant city life and scenic country charm, interact with employees from entrepreneurial companies, such as RIM, the maker of Blackberry and Open Text and benefit from diverse ethnic and cultural activities and recreational facilities and thriving creative clusters. This is the community whose unprecedented investment established the School of Pharmacy.
Additional information on the School of Pharmacy is available at:
http://www.pharmacy.uwaterloo.ca
1.) Community Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship:
Our two local community hospitals, Grand River and St. Mary’s Hospital, are partnering with us to create a Clinical/Research Infectious Disease (ID) position.
They provide:
1) an excellent community based clinical site, with patients and health issues which have been underrepresented in Antimicrobial Stewardship Research; 2) an Infectious Disease Team eager to collaborate; and, 3) a unique research funding model that would see a portion of cost savings, realized in the Program, reserved for Infectious Disease Research.
This individual will be an integral member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Team, being a key player in establishing initiatives which foster improved antimicrobial use, lower antimicrobial resistance, increased patient safety and cost-savings across both hospitals.
The individual will work collaboratively with the Infection Control Team, to establish guidelines which ensure appropriate antimicrobial therapy, participate in education of hospital staff and establish an antimicrobial and drug surveillance reporting program.
Research opportunities exist in many areas, including evaluation of Antimicrobial Management Strategies, Pharmacy Practice Based Research, Local and Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns, etc.
In collaboration with other Microbiology Faculty, this individual will participate in the Infectious Disease component of our School of Pharmacy curriculum. Our educational plan uniquely combines Medical Microbiology, Public Health, Emergency Preparedness and Infectious Disease Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
2.) Rural Primary Care:
Gateway Rural Health Research Institute, located in Seaforth, Ontario (approximately one hour west of Kitchener/Waterloo), is creating a centre to research healthcare issues in rural populations, the first community-driven rural research centre in Canada.
Two of its major drivers are that most healthcare-related research conducted in Canada and elsewhere is based on test populations located close to large urban medical centres and studies show a higher prevalence for a number of medical conditions and probability for medical conditions in rural areas.
Seeing the Pharmacist as a critical member of the Health Care and Research Team, they are partnering with us to create a Rural Primary Care Faculty Position.
Gateway provides an inter-professional primary care site which links with local hospitals, long-term care facilities and a Community Care Access Center and is strategically placed for the development of Ambulatory Pharmacy Initiatives and Practice Research.
Depending on the individual’s expertise, an array of opportunities exist for teaching in many primary care areas within our integrated patient focused care course series.
This individual would have a strong role in guiding our curriculum development, as we work to produce graduates who may participate in the expanding scope of Pharmacy Practice here in Ontario.
We are seeking candidates for both of these positions who offer exceptional communication and teaching skills, creative/innovative scholarship and strong practice experience.
Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants must hold either Pharm.D. or Ph.D degrees.
Candidates must have postdoctoral experience or exemplary practice-based clinical experience.
Candidates will be expected to establish successful externally funded scholarship programs. In addition to the pursuit of scholarly activity through research and practice innovation, duties will include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and supervision of students seeking advanced degrees or training in advanced clinical practice.
Applications should include:
1) curriculum vitae; 2) the names of at least three individuals willing to furnish letters of reference; 3) one-page statements regarding teaching philosophies; and, 4) outlines (1 - 2 pages) of proposed scholarly activities.
Please submit completed applications to:
pharmjob@uwaterloo.ca
by December 1, 2009.
Applications will be accepted until suitable candidates are found.
