EMS Physician, Clinical Faculty

Oct 09, 2026

About the Department of Emergency Medicine

TheUVA Department of Emergency Medicine is a nationally recognized leader in clinical care, education, and research. The department’s faculty care for more than
75,000 patients annually across UVA Health’s academic emergency department and regional sites.

Educational excellence is a core mission, with arobust residency program, fellowships in EMS, medical toxicology, ultrasound, and global health, and active student programs. Faculty are nationally recognized for innovation in AI-augmented learning, simulation-based education, physician well-being initiatives, and operational research.

The department has strong institutional support for educational innovation, with collaborative ties to the School of Medicine Office of Educational Affairs, UVA’s Link Lab for data science and engineering, and the Center for Advanced Medical Analytics.

Research is a rapidly growing pillar of the Department’s mission under the leadership of the Vice Chair for Research and Innovation, with a distinctive emphasis on digital health, artificial intelligence, data science, clinical informatics, and robotics. Departmental faculty develop and deploy clinical AI and prediction tools on real-time health system data, build health data infrastructure, and study the sociotechnical and ethical dimensions of technology in acute care, in close collaboration with UVA’s School of Data Science, School of Engineering, and Link Lab.

Departmental research infrastructure includes a weekly research incubator series, an internal pilot grant program for junior faculty and trainees, embedded data science support, and strong ties to UVA’s emerging enterprise research data platform. Prehospital research is a strategic priority for the Department, and this position offers the opportunity to help build it with dedicated mentorship and support.

About UVA Health and Charlottesville

UVA Health is the flagship academic health system for the Commonwealth of Virginia and is consistently ranked among the nation’s best. The University of Virginia is a top-public university with a strong culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and service.

Charlottesville offers an outstanding quality of life, combining the vibrant intellectual and cultural environment of a university town with the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. For more information about UVA and the Charlottesville community please see http://www.virginia.edu/life/charlottesville and

Job Summary
The Division of EMS within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine invites applications for an EMS Physician to join our clinical faculty, with a goal of a focus in research. This is a rare opportunity to help build and grow a well-established EMS division within a nationally recognized academic health system. You would provide high-quality emergency and prehospital care, and work directly with regional agencies to improve EMS care for patients in Charlottesville, the surrounding region, and across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
This position is primarily clinical (0.85 FTE). The remaining effort (0.15 FTE) is dedicated to EMS program development and academic work. That includes medical oversight and support for regional EMS agencies, quality improvement, protocol development, education of EMS clinicians, and preparedness for mass casualty and critical incidents. The successful candidate will be committed to clinical excellence, to strengthening the prehospital-to-hospital continuum of care, and to partnering with the community to improve outcomes for the patients EMS…