Academic Professional Track; Non-Tenure): Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor of Veterinary

Position: Academic Professional Track (Non-Tenure): Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor of Veterinary
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Academic Professional Track (Non-Tenure):
Clinical Assistant Professor or Clinical Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Veterinary Pathobiology

Location

College Station

Open Date

12/18/2025

Position

174042

Description

The Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB), College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), Texas A&M University (TAMU), is seeking a motivated individual for one, full-time, 11-month appointment, faculty position in veterinary clinical pathology. Applicants will be considered for a tenured, tenure-track, or academic professional track (non-tenure) faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Clinical Assistant Professor, or Clinical Associate Professor, depending on qualifications and commensurate with credentials.

Academic Professional Track Faculty Expectations:

* 30-40% to teaching

* 30-40% effort to diagnostic service

* 10-30% to scholarly activities

* 10% to academic citizenship (service)

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Expectations:

* 35-60% to scholarly activities

* 25-30% effort to diagnostic service

* 20-30% to teaching

* 10% to academic citizenship (service)

Scholarly activity:
The faculty member will be expected to engage in scholarly activity that is synergistic with the College's research, teaching, and clinical service missions. A successful candidate will be expected to develop an extramurally funded, creative, and productive research program in relevant fields of interest that will involve the training of graduate students, residents, and/or professional students. Contributions to collaborative research will also be valued.

A successful clinical-track candidate will be expected to participate in research, but will not be expected to maintain an independent research program.

Diagnostic service:
The faculty member will share service responsibilities with the team of four full-time clinical pathologists, three clinical pathology residents, six full-time laboratory staff members, and many student workers. Service includes evaluating a variety of cytologic, hematologic, and urologic samples from the Small and Large Animal Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospitals, as well as reviewing laboratory data for patients and assisting with quality assurance.

Duties also include discussing cases with clinicians, residents, medical technologists, veterinary technicians, and students.

Teaching:
The faculty member will participate in the clinical training of pathology residents and veterinary students. Teaching responsibilities include instruction of didactic and clinical courses for students in multiple years of the veterinary curriculum, graduate courses for residents, participation in a variety of department and interdepartmental rounds and seminars, and oversight of rotating interns and residents. The faculty member is expected to become an effective teacher, so demonstration of previous teaching effectiveness is preferred, and they should be able to work with persons from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.

The development of innovative instructional delivery is encouraged and valued.

The VTPB department is home to a NIH-funded T32 Program that provides support to veterinarians seeking advanced training in biomedical research. The successful candidate will have opportunities to mentor trainees under this program.

Service:
Faculty members are expected to contribute service activities to the department, college, university, and their professional community through service on committees and positions of leadership. The selected candidate will be expected to adhere to the College's code of professional conduct.

Compensation will be commensurate with accomplishments and experience. Texas A&M University makes available a significant fringe benefit package with multiple options in life insurance, healthcare insurance, retirement, as well as an excellent vacation and sick leave program.

The Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB) includes 41 faculty members with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and scholarly interests. Faculty members are located at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, at the Veterinary Education Research and Outreach (VERO) program on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, and at the Higher Education Center at McAllen (HECM) in South Texas.

Faculty members contribute to teaching in the DVM professional program and undergraduate and graduate biomedical sciences programs. Research emphasis areas within VTPB are broad and include Diagnostic Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Food Animal Microbiology & Epidemiology, Clinical Microbiology, Biomedical Genetics/Genomics & Bioinformatics, Pathology, Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine, and Wildlife Medicine & Conservation. Collaboration opportunities are available with neighboring institutions, such as the Texas A&M Health Science Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic…