Professor in clinical epidemiology combined with employment as at least specialist physician at Södersjukhuset

- with focus on research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Welcome to an internationally leading research environment in clinical epidemiology at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet (KI). This position offers you the opportunity to develop your research in clinically oriented epidemiology, as well as your clinical skills through the Department of Cardiology at Södersjukhuset.  

Description of the subject area

Epidemiological research, both clinically and etiologically oriented, constitutes one of KI’s internationally strongest research profiles. In Sweden and the Scandinavian countries, there are possibilities to link together information from different data sources including national registers, creating unique opportunities to address clinically important research questions such as effects of treatments and other clinical interventions. Further, the development of artificial intelligence opens up entirely new possibilities for analyzing such large-scale data.  

Within the subject area of clinical epidemiology, there are ample opportunities at KI for collaboration within related  medical specialties including rheumatology, gastroenterology, neurology, hematology, oncology, obstetrics and gynecology and infection medicine. There is also a strong constellation of both traditional applied biostatistics and expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which is undergoing rapid development.  

The clinical activities  are taking place at Södersjukhuset within the Department of Cardiology, which also conducts intensive and intermediate care.  

Your mission

You will conduct internationally competitive clinical epidemiological research within internal medicine, and you are expected to lead a research environment that develops the research field in terms of questions as well as data and analysis methodology. You will be responsible for research and finances within your own research group.

You will collaborate with researchers within and outside KI, nationally and internationally, in the field for the strategic development of the research area, and for clinical research in general.  You will also collaborate with the surrounding community, such as Region Stockholm, and participate in research supporting and developing efforts relevant to the methodological area.

You will participate in postgraduate education at Division of Clinical Epidemiology  and at MedS in general, and contribute to teaching at the postgraduate level, for example within the KI-Region Stockholm Research School in Epidemiology for Clinicians. 

As a at least a specialist physician, you will conduct active clinical work within the Department of Cardiology at Södersjukhuset, and you will promote research, teaching, and development in the clinical environment at the hospital. 

The position will be divided into 50% at Karolinska Institutet and 50% at Södersjukhuset. 

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 the subject area of the established recruitment profile.

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

Further eligibility requirements

• You should have a research profile in clinically oriented epidemiological research. 

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 the Department of Cardiology at Södersjukhuset  and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in cardiology 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). 

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 (2), and clinical skills (2).

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

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

It is also meritorious that you have demonstrated 

• Register based research using national health data registers or other care-related administrative systems.
• Methods development relevant to the subject area, such as  adaptation of new analytic methods.
• International collaboration within research, data sources and/or methodologies.
• Teaching experience in the field of clinical epidemiological research methods.
• Clinical experience in intermediate and/or intensive care.

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

Department of Medicine, Solna

Your career continues 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.

The clinical employment at Södersjukhuset requires specialist certificate(s) in cardiology to be attached to the application. 

The level of clinical employment (chief physician, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) is determined by Södersjukhuset before the decision of employment is made. 

We look forward to receiving your application!

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