Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor (Clinical Teaching Track

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor (Clinical Teaching Track)

University of Colorado | Anschutz Medical Campus School of Dental Medicine Department of Orthodontics Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor (Clinical Teaching Track) Position # 00 629340 Requisition # 40821

Job Summary:

The University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Dental Medicine welcomes applications from exceptional candidates at the level of Clinical Teaching (C/T) track or tenure position (open rank) to expand its clinical and didactic teaching in the Department of Orthodontics. This position will also engage in research support and engagement at the pre- and post-doctoral level. The successful candidate will be an outstanding orthodontics clinician-educator with interest in, and commitment to clinical care, teaching, and scholarship.

This is a full-time faculty position offering. Initial rank is based upon knowledge, achievement, and experience, and with the opportunity for academic promotion based upon demonstrated, ongoing excellence in education, research, clinical care, and community service. This position is located at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a public education, clinical and research facility serving 4,500 students, and a world-class medical destination at the forefront of life-changing science, medicine, and healthcare.

CU Anschutz offers more than 42 highly rated degree programs through 6 schools and colleges and receives over $500 million in research awards each year. We are the single largest health professions education provider in Colorado, awarding nearly 1,450 degrees annually. Powered by our award-winning faculty, renowned researchers and a reputation for academic excellence, the CU Anschutz Medical Campus drives innovation from the classroom to the laboratory to the delivery of unparalleled patient care.

Key Responsibilities:

The duties for this faculty position include teaching, research, and clinical service duties. Direct mentoring of students is an expectation of this position. The overall distribution of such activities and allocation of responsibilities is determined by the Orthodontics Department Chair based on specialty, student and clinic needs, amongst other appropriate considerations. Clinical duties may include a combination of clinic coverage (i.e., on-call and patient care, teaching didactic and clinical laboratory courses to orthodontics residents and pre-doctoral dental students;

and service as course director for assigned pre-doctoral and resident courses Teaching activities may include didactic and clinical teaching - as well as clinical supervision. Research, scholarship and educational activities derive from faculty member's interests related to the field of dentistry. All faculty participate in academic endeavors, including the educational conferences, research and scholarly activities of the section and the department.

Attendance at the meetings and educational events of the section and department is expected.

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, Colorado on the Anschutz Medical Campus with the School of Dental Medicine.

Why Join Us:
The Department of Orthodontics currently has 12-15 residents in each class and the residency lasts 30 months. We also teach dental students (80 in each class) and international student dentists (40 per class). We have 5 full-time faculty, and 8 part-time clinical faculty. We provide orthodontic care for children, teenagers, and adults in our state-of-the-art clinic. Our residents use a wide variety of techniques and often work in an interdisciplinary manner with other disciplines in the School of Dental Medicine.

They have the opportunity to see the start-to-finish treatment (diagnosis, treatment plan, and treatment) of new and transfer patients during their residency, via patient records presented during seminars or as table presentations.

Why work for the University? We have AMAZING benefits and offer exceptional amounts of holiday, vacation and sick leave! The University of…