Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine with focus on Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine combined with employment as specialist physician at the Karolinska University Hospital - prolonged application period - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

- with focus on research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa) conducts education and research in physiology, pharmacology, anesthesiology, and intensive care at a high international level. The department has about 400 employees, 30 research groups, and 75 doctoral students. We offer a dynamic research and teaching environment in newly renovated premises in the newly built Biomedicum at Campus Solna, which is linked to corresponding clinical teaching and research environments at the Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at Karolinska University Hospital. The research activities at the department include the fields of anesthesiology and intensive care, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, neuropsychopharmacology, neuroinflammation, cellular signaling, pharmacogenetics, regenerative medicine, renal physiology, muscle physiology, and pain. The collaboration between preclinical and clinical researchers at Karolinska University Hospital provides unique opportunities for translational research.

Description of the subject area

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care is a combined academic and clinical field, which also constitutes a medical specialty comprising the clinical activities of perioperative medicine and intensive care. The subject area is dominated by applied physiology and pharmacology and has for several decades had its academic development strongly linked to the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. The Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology was established in 2005 and conducts internationally leading research and education primarily in anesthesiology and intensive care. The academic activities take place in close collaboration with the Region Stockholm's health care services in perioperative medicine and intensive care and have for more than 15 years been an integrated part of the anesthesia, surgery, and intensive care activities at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna. The clinical activities in anesthesiology and intensive care at Karolinska University Hospital are comprised of a hospital-wide organization called the Function Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care (PMI), to which the majority of the clinical researchers/teachers at the department are affiliated.

A research platform consisting of an experimental unit, a unit for clinical research, and a unit for outcome and epidemiology has been established with joint funding from Karolinska Institutet and the Region. At the section, there is a well-established translational research laboratory with access to cell and animal experimental models closely linked to technical platforms for genomics and proteomics and biochemical analyses on cell, animal, and human materials. The laboratory is an important basic scientific resource and is closely linked to clinical research in anesthesiology and intensive care. Function PMI has contributed with strategic funds to strengthen the infrastructure and connect the preclinical activities with the clinical research unit at PMI.

Your mission

You are expected to conduct international cutting-edge research in anesthesia and perioperative medicine. You are expected to function as a research group leader with responsibility for personnel, delegated responsibility for working environment and other administrative tasks within the department. The employment includes teaching in physiology, pharmacology, as well as anesthesia and intensive care at undergraduate, advanced and doctoral levels. The role involves collaboration with other research groups within the department, Karolinska Institutet, nationally and internationally, as well as interactions with other society.

The duties include:
• Supervising students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows primarily within the framework of research activities in perioperative medicine.
• Teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels within the framework of clinical activities, mainly focused on medical and nursing programs at KI.
• Conducting high-quality research within the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and having established collaborations with preclinical and clinical research groups both nationally and internationally.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Professor with focus on research the applicant must have demonstrated good pedagogical expertise, excellent scientific expertise and clinical expertise (See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet).

The employment will be combined with an employment as specialist physician, biträdande överläkare or överläkare in anesthesiology and intensive care at the Medical Unit Perioperative Medicine Solna, Function Perioperative Medicine, and Intensive Care at Karolinska University Hospital and therefore, the candidate must have an MD with specialist competence in anesthesia and intensive care, set to fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Since the position includes clinical work, the successful applicant must, besides English, demonstrate proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian or Danish (C1 level according to the common European reference scale (CERS).

Assessment criteria

The Professorship has a focus on research. The assessment will consider qualifications as follows: scientific expertise (3), pedagogical expertise (2), leadership, development and collaboration expertise (2) and clinical expertise (2). When appointing a professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria specified in the guidelines for employment regulations 3.1.1 apply in relation to the established employment profile.

It is a strong merit if the applicant has a documented high ability to administratively lead and further develop cell and animal experimental research as well as collaborate with clinical research environments focused on anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, also in close collaboration with other universities. It is also a strong merit if the applicant has demonstrated independent and ongoing research of high quality, good teaching skills, good management, development and collaboration skills, has a doctorate and competence that at least corresponds to docent level at KI, s a nationally leading and internationally recognized researcher.

It is a merit if the applicant has conducted research at a foreign university and demonstrated the ability to independently and competitively attract significant research resources that can ensure future research activities.

The applicant shall also have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education (or have equivalent competence), as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution. If the person appointed for the position is lacking such education at the time of employment, the appointee must undergo such education during the first two years of employment.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment filled with competence and curiosity. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and have the largest selection of medical programs in Sweden. At KI, you will meet researchers with different research focuses who work together. It is the cross-disciplinary collaboration that contributes to KI's world-leading position in research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with healthcare is important for creating education and research of the highest quality. As a university, Karolinska Institutet is also a government agency. This means that you, as an employee, receive good benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

https://ki.se/fyfa

Application

Your application must contain the following documents in English: a cover letter as well as a résumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, all the submitted documents should be written in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

For the clinical employment at Karolinska University Hospital:

To obtain an employment as at least specialist physician (överläkare, biträdande överläkare, specialistläkare) at Karolinska University Hospital, assessment of the applicant’s clinical qualifications by the hospital’s Expert Committee is mandatory.

Hence, the documents listed below are required for determining the correct service level.

• Karolinska University Hospital’s form for Curriculum Vitae
• Specialist certificate(s) in anesthesia and intensive care*
• Certificate on PhD degree**
• Certificate regarding docent/associate professor **
• List of publications (10 most important)

*including specialist certificate(s) from other countries

**when applicable

• Link to criteria for specialist doctor at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset (in Swedish).

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