Academic Clinical Microbiologist

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• Department:
  Pathology Lab Med - Clinical - 413802
• Posting Open Date: 07/28/2025
• Open Until Filled:
  Yes
• Position Type:
  Permanent Faculty
• Working Title:
  
  Academic Clinical Microbiologist
• Appointment Type:
  Faculty
• Vacancy
• Full‑time/Part‑time:
  Full‑Time Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 40
• Fte: 1
• Position Location:
  
  North Carolina, US
• Proposed
  
  Start Date:
  
  04/01/2026

Our mission is to improve the health and well‑being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. Patient care:
We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education:

We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team‑oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce. Research:
We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks a highly motivated faculty member to serve as an Associate Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. This position is open rank and track (tenure‑track, tenured, fixed‑term, or variable track) based on the candidate’s experience. The successful candidate will serve as the Director of Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for UNC Health Care and is expected to provide technical expertise at a health care system level.

They will work closely with and be a resource for pediatric and adult infectious disease services and hospital epidemiology and infection control, among other clinical services. The candidate will be a faculty member of the CPEP‑accredited post‑doctoral fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology and will be actively involved in teaching medical students, graduate students, residents, and fellows. UNC offers exceptional clinical and translational research opportunities through strong interdisciplinary research teams and excellent research core facilities.

Information about UNC Health Care can be found here: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The candidate must have a PhD, MD or MD/PhD and be board certified or board eligible in Medical Microbiology by either the American Board of Medical Microbiology or the American Board of Pathology.

Candidates should have a demonstrated record of academic achievement through independent or collaborative research and scholarly publications.

Not Applicable.

Please upload a summary of career goals for the required “Other Document.” Please include the names and contact information for five references for the “List of References” document.