Heersink School of Medicine - Strategic Faculty Initiative in Diabetes Research at UAB - Clinical

Heersink School of Medicine
- Open Rank Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative in Diabetes Research at UAB
- Clinical Trialists
- Med
- Endocrinology Please see Special Instructions for more details.

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Position Information

School/College

School/College School of Medicine

Title

Title Heersink School of Medicine
- Open Rank Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative in Diabetes Research at UAB
- Clinical Trialists
- Med
- Endocrinology

Assignment Category

Assignment Category Full-Time

Rank

Rank Open Rank

Payroll Status

Payroll Status Faculty 12

The University of Alabama at Birmingham* ( UAB ) Heersink School of Medicine (Heersink SOM )
* and the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center ( UCDC )
** are seeking clinical trialists as part of a Broad Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative of up to 10 investigator sin Diabetes Research at UAB . This is a major strategic portfolio increase across basic, translational, clinical, and population science research efforts in diabetes. Recruitment is for tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-earning faculty applicants with an MD or MD/PhD at all ranks. Successful candidates will join a highly collaborative team including half a dozen recently recruited faculty.

All applications will be considered, but priority will be given to those with expertise in

• investigator-initiated clinical diabetes trials
• industry sponsored clinical diabetes trials

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest diverse diabetes environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center has more than 200 faculty members representing 10 UAB schools and many departments and spanning the full range of biomedical diabetes research. It also has one of only 18 nationally funded Diabetes Research Center ( DRC ) awards. In addition, UAB has numerous other centers and institutes that are highly relevant to diabetes research and to the specific areas of interest including the Nutrition Obesity Research Center ( NORC ), Center for Exercise Medicine, Center for Free Radical Biology, Microbiome Center, Integrative Center for Aging Research, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center ( MHRC ), Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education ( COERE ), Nephrology Research and Training Center ( NRTC ), NIH Center for Clinical and Translational Science ( CCTS ), Informatics Institute, and the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute.

Moreover, both adult and pediatric diabetes clinics at UAB are very active, with a high volume of new type 1 and type 2 diabetes cases and serve a highly diverse patient population coming from a large catchment area.

UAB has been named the Best Large Employer by Forbes in 2021. Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines of the State, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $7 billion annually. UAB is Alabama's largest employer with more than 23,000 employees; it supports more than 64,000 jobs statewide.

UAB received nearly $849 million in research grants and extramural awards for the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2021. With more than 1,700 full-time faculty and almost 2,000 medical and graduate students, the Heersink SOM ranks 27th nationally in NIH research funding. Two departments within the Heersink SOM are ranked in the top 10 for NIH funding in 2023:
Biomedical Engineering - #10, Pathology - # 10.

MD or MD/PhD

All applications will be considered, but priority will be given to those with expertise in

• investigator-initiated clinical diabetes trials
• industry sponsored clinical diabetes trials

Posting Number F2917P

Open Date 09/22/2026

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