Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine combined with position as at least specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital

- with focus on education and 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, traumatology, 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 excellent 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 FyFa. The Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at FyFa 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 Region Stockholm's clinical operations 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 and teachers at the department are affiliated. Karolinska University Hospital has one of the largest intensive care services for adult and pediatric patients in Sweden. At the hospital in Solna, in addition to a central intensive care unit (CICU), there are subspecialized units for thoracic (THICU), neuro (NICU), and pediatric intensive care (PICU), as well as the ECMO unit – all of which are closely linked to the academic activities within the section at FyFa. At the hospital in Huddinge, there is an intensive care unit with specific assignments for, among other things, highly specialized gastrointestinal surgery, transplantation, and contagious diseases.

A research platform in anesthesiology and intensive care, consisting of an experimental unit, a unit for clinical research, and a unit for outcomes research and epidemiology, has for several years been established with joint funding from Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm. 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 both clinical and epidemiological research in anesthesiology and intensive care.

The section, together with Function PMI and with support from strategic R&D funding from KI and Region Stockholm, is now strengthening the infrastructure with investments in routine biobanking linked to high-resolution patient data to enable precision medicine and mechanistic research on a very large patient base.

Your mission

You will lead and develop education in physiology, pharmacology, and intensive care medicine at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels. The employment also includes conducting high-quality research in intensive care medicine, as well as supervising students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral researchers within the framework of the corresponding educational and research activities. You will also take on leadership responsibilities for both research and education, with a particular focus on being actively involved in the leadership and governance of the department’s educational organization.

The position involves acting as a research group leader, with responsibilities for personnel, delegated responsibility for the work environment, and other administrative tasks within the department. The role also includes collaboration with other research groups within the department, Karolinska Institutet, both nationally and internationally, as well as with external societal stakeholders. Other responsibilities include administrative duties and internal and external assignments of trust at both national and international levels.

The employment is divided into 50 percent at Karolinska Institutet and 50 percent at the Karolinska University Hospital.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Professor with focus on education and research the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills and very good scientific skills and clinical skills.

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is a requirement that you have completed at least 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education, as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution. If you lack such education at the time of employment, you must undergo such education during the first two years of employment.

The employment will be combined with an employment as a senior consultant, assistant chief physician, or specialist physician, in anesthesiology and intensive care at the Intensive Care and Cardiothoracic Perioperative Medicine in Solna, Function Perioperative Medicine, and Intensive Care at Karolinska University Hospital and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in anesthesiology and intensive care as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

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

The Professorship has a focus on research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2), and clinical skills (2).

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the assessment criteria are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure, and these are applied in relation to established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is furthermore meritorious that you have:

• Administratively and pedagogically further developed courses and educational programs.
• Developed epidemiological and interventional research in intensive care medicine.
• Experience in research in close collaboration with clinical research environments and through strategic partnerships with national and international universities.
• Several years of clinical experience in intensive care.
• Several years of experience as a manager and leader.

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 with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

Read more about the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology here.

Application

Your application must contain the following documents in English: a cover letter as well as a resumé 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.

Clinical position at Karolinska University Hospital:

To obtain an employment as specialist physician (senior consultant, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) 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 (in Swedish)
• Specialist certificate(s) in anesthesiology 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 physician at Karolinska University Hospital (in Swedish).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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