Professor in Infectious Diseases combined with employment as specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital

- with focus on research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

We are looking for a committed and driven teacher at professor level who wants to take a leading role in developing research in infectious diseases. You will also have a central role in strengthening the clinical education within the medical program and contributing to the medical competence of the future.

Description of the subject area

The Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), conducts strong and well-established education and research activities in infectious diseases at a high international level at Karolinska Institutet. The research includes both clinical and translational activities at the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM).

Clinical research includes observational studies as well as successful clinical trials of treatments for infectious diseases. Infectious disease care is a central part of the department's work in both education and research in clinical medicine.

The Subdivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) within the CIM unit at MedH is responsible for the teaching of infectious diseases at the medical program on the Huddinge side, in close collaboration with the Medical Unit (ME) Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital.

Your mission

To ensure continued research and research-related teaching of high quality, we are looking for a professor teacher for MedH at Karolinska Institutet.

The position is combined with a position at least as specialist physician at ME Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital, with a planned division of positions of 70 percent at Karolinska Institutet and 30 percent at Karolinska University Hospital.

The role includes conducting and leading research at a high international level, as well as further developing the department's research at CIM, with a particular focus on clinical and translational research.

The assignment also includes responsibility for ensuring that the education in Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge is of high quality and develop so that it meets the infection panorama of the future. As responsible for infection education in Huddinge, you also collaborate with other hospitals in the region that conduct education in infectious diseases, so that the region's education in the subject is high-quality and effective. The assignment locally includes ensuring that the department has a person responsible for the infectious diseases course and to set up and carry out the education both theoretically and practically together with this person.

Your assignment also includes a managerial responsibility for the subdivision CID within CIM, where you, together with the head of CIM, are responsible for the development and strengthening of translational infection research at the department.

Eligibility requirements

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

Further eligibility requirements

• You must have teaching experience in infectious diseases and be a research group leader with an established research line in infectious diseases.

It is a requirement that you have completed 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 specialist physician, assistant chief physician or chief physician in Infectious disease or another specialist subject that can be associated with employment at ME Infectious Diseases at Karolinska University Hospital and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in Infectious diseases or a related specialist subject that can be associated with employment at ME Infectious Diseases, as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Since the position includes clinical work, you 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 weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (2) leadership and collaboration skills (3), 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 demonstrated

• Participation in infectious disease teaching for medical students
• Successful research at a high international level in infectious diseases
• Experience of development and management assignments within the university and the region's R&D activities
• Extensive experience in clinical trials in infectious diseases
• Successful research with a translational focus
• Solid experience of successful research in collaboration with national and international researchers and scientific networks in infectious diseases

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 innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical 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: Flemingsberg

Department of Medicine, Huddinge | Karolinska Institutet

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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.

For the clinical employment at Karolinska University Hospital:

To obtain an employment as at least specialist physician (chief physician, 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
• Specialist certificate(s) in Infectious diseases or in a related specialist subject that can be combined with employment at ME Infectious Diseases*
• PhD degree certificate**
• Certificate regarding docent/associate professor **
• List of 10 most important publications

*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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