Associate​/Full Professor & Founding Director, Blood Cancer Healing Center

Company/Institution:

Company/Institution:
University of Cincinnati

Department:

Department:
Department of Internal Medicine

Location:

Location:

Cincinnati, OH, USA

Degree Requirements:

Degree Requirements: MD Salary:
Not available

Job Type:

Job Type: Faculty

Job Setting:

Job Setting:
Medical School

Job Overview
As one of the oldest medical schools in the country, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (COM) has a reputation for training best-in-class health care professionals and developing cutting‑edge procedures and research that improves the health and clinical care of patients. In partnership with the UC Health academic healthcare system and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine's faculty and providers are transforming the world of medicine every day.

The Department of Internal Medicine is a top‑tier department with world‑renowned faculty and staff. With world‑class research, teaching and medical practice opportunities, why not choose the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine?

The Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, in partnership with the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center (UCCC) and UC Health, invites applications for a senior clinical and translational leader to guide the Blood Cancer Healing Center (BCHC).

This position is intended for an accomplished hematologic malignancies physician‑investigator with a national reputation, a strong record of clinical and translational scholarship, and demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams. The leader will have a central role in building the BCHC into a nationally recognized destination for comprehensive blood cancer care, innovative clinical trials, translational research, and training. The BCHC is a major strategic investment in the future of hematologic cancer care  one of the relatively few stand‑alone hospitals in the United States dedicated to blood cancers, it offers a distinctive platform to integrate highly specialized inpatient and outpatient care, cellular therapy and transplantation, early‑phase therapeutics, disease‑focused clinical programs, and laboratory‑based translation within a unified environment.

Faculty rank is commensurate with experience.

Essential Functions

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the clinical and translational blood cancer programs within the BCHC.
• Develop a clear, ambitious vision that aligns the BCHC with UCCC priorities and supports the institutional goal of achieving National Cancer Institute designation.
• Build nationally prominent disease‑focused programs in leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, stem cell transplantation, and cellular therapy.
• Expand the portfolio of investigator‑initiated, cooperative group, industry‑sponsored, and early‑phase clinical trials.
• Advance multidisciplinary models of care, quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical outcomes across the blood cancer continuum.
• Represent the BCHC and UCCC regionally and nationally, developing strategic partnerships with academic centers, industry, foundations, community practices, and patient advocacy organizations.
• Leverage UCCC capabilities in experimental therapeutics, precision medicine, genomics, cellular therapy, biostatistics, bioinformatics, pharmacology, and drug development.
• Partner with basic and translational investigators in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Cancer Biology, and other departments across the College of Medicine.
• Develop joint initiatives with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Leukemia and Lymphoma Programs.
• Strengthen connections with the NCI Early Phase Clinical…