Job ID302802 LocationTwin Cities Job FamilyAcademic Full/Part TimeFull-Time Regular/TemporaryRegular Job Code9403 Employee ClassInstr Fac/TC and Coord Cmp About the Job Successful candidates will be expected to undertake responsibilities in one or more of the following areas, subject to the needs of the IHI and the home department: * Research - Identifying funding opportunities and participating in and/or leading research teams in developing grant proposals and executing the resulting grant projects once awarded. The IHI takes an explicitly team-based approach to research in line with its interdisciplinary philosophy. * Graduate Education - supporting the teaching programs and mentoring of graduate students at the Masters and Doctoral levels * Service - Leading or serving on committees and taking on responsibilities directly related to those projects and applications aligned with both the IHI's and home department's commitment to support the design, implementation, and improvement of health informatics applications in the Academic Health Center and the University. In addition, the IHI provides a biomedical health informatics consultation service with participation opportunities by all those associated with the IHI. In addition, it is expected that individuals will: * Contribute to the development of the profession through participation in national and/or international associations, publications, and/or other related activities * Continue personal growth within the profession, keep current with the field, and broaden their knowledge and expertise Qualifications Required Qualifications: Applicants must have a terminal degree in health informatics or related field along with demonstrated successful scholarly accomplishments in the field. Preferred Qualifications: Examples of highly desirable candidate's areas of specialization: Translational Bioinformatics: * Deep sequencing informatics, * Proteomics/metabolomics informatics, * Microbiomics informatics, * Cancer genomics informatics, * Computational genetics, * Molecular profiling and precision medicine informatics, * Pharmacoinformatics, * Clinical genomics informatics and genomic medical records. Medical/Health Informatics: * Big Data Informatics: clinical and research data warehouses and datamarts, data wrangling, visualization, analytics, ontologies, online digital data capture/mining/modeling, data exchanges and linkage, data security. * Medical Decision Support Systems. * EHRs and CPOEs, system integration. * Computable guidelines and informatics to support Evidence Based practice. * Unstructured data processing using pattern recognition, NLP, mathematical and statistical techniques. * Information retrieval, scientometrics, computable quality metrics. * Population/public health informatics. Methodological areas with broad-spectrum applicability: * Machine Learning and pattern recognition: predictive analytics and modeling, computational causal discovery, intelligent analytics systems and front ends. * Advanced computing platforms for biomedical and health research. * Design and analysis of informatics algorithms. * Comparative evaluation of informatics methods, best practices, informatics quality assurance and reproducibility. * Biomedical Imaging Informatics. About the Department The Institute for Health Informatics has multiple tenure track position openings available at all faculty ranks. Positions will be joint appointments between the IHI and a University School/Department that will serve as the tenure home for the successful candidate. An appropriate tenure home department will be one with a good match with the candidates background and interests and a focus on informatics research within its discipline. The Institute for Health Informatics is an independent entity within the Academic Health Center (AHC), a interdisciplinary collaboration of the six health-related schools: Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Veterinary Medicine. The Institute a ms to lead the inter-professional discovery, application, and teaching of health information science to improve the health of individuals and communities by creating a vibrant collaborative environment with a strong sense of community whose members are intellectually curious and are not afraid to take risks as they strive toward the future in health informatics research. The IHI works closely with the AHC and the CTSI Biomedical Health Informatics, which is directly responsible to the Vice President for Health Affairs of the Academic Health Center (AHC). The AHC recognizes the critical role of biomedical health informatics in the care of patients, the conduct of research, including the CTSA/CTSI, and the education of its students. The AHC is engaged in collaboration with the University's Office of the Vice President for Research in undertaking a multi-year effort to grow the informatics capabilities of the entire University. Within the AHC, the IHI has academic responsibility for leading these efforts. The IHI draws collaborators from across the highly talented faculty of the University of Minnesota ranging from specialists in health care financing in the Carlson School of Management to computer scientists and engineers from the College of Science & Engineering. It supports a vibrant and growing graduate program with over 40 students, including 24 PhD students, and a growing research portfolio. The IHI is explicitly interdisciplinary in nature and involves academics and health professionals from all health disciplines. 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