Rank Tenure-Track Faculty of Anesthesiology

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Open‑Rank Tenure‑Track Faculty of Anesthesiology

Medicine | Anesthesiology

The Department of Anesthesiology at Wexner Medical Center/The Ohio State University College of Medicine is initiating a search for one (or more) Tenure‑Track faculty positions in Basic
, Translational and/or Clinical Research. To accelerate our research growth, we have recently recruited two NIH‑funded tenure‑track faculty and plan to recruit additional faculty in strategic areas of research to complement our existing strengths and grow our capabilities. We encourage applicants to apply for Assistant, Associate or Full Professor positions. Qualified candidates for the Tenure Track will focus on research relevant to perioperative care and anesthesiology, in subspecialty areas generally focused on Neuroscience, Pain and Addiction.

Applications in other research areas may be considered if they complement ongoing research areas outlined below. Specific target areas of investigation could include, but are not limited to, neuromodulation, neuroimmune regulation, neuroinflammation and reactive glia, in the context of perioperative neural dysfunction, neuroprotection, pain signaling and analgesia, recovery and wound healing, or addiction research. Candidates focused on Women’s Health in the specific target areas are encouraged to apply.

We are interested in recruiting either PhD or Physician scientists.

Successful applicants will join a growing and dynamic research environment dedicated to translating innovative laboratory discoveries in basic mechanisms to human studies and clinical trials with a long‑term goal to improve patients’ lives. We have an emerging program on ischemic spinal cord injury following TAAA surgery to repair an aneurysm (targeting open surgical repair versus TEVAR), postsurgical delirium, neuromodulation and neuroprotection and perioperative pain management.

One of our Tenured Professors is part of a recently funded NIH Blueprint Medtech Award in 2025 in collaboration with Cool Spine LLC (sponsored by NINDS & National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) through a U54 grant mechanism. He will work with his collaborators on an innovative project titled “Intrathecal Cooling Catheter to Provide Neuroprotection to Avoid Paraplegia Resulting from Open and Endovascular Thoracic Aneurysm Repair” ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).).

We recently hosted the first international NIH R13 sponsored conference on strategies to combat ‘paraplegia after ischemic spinal cord injury in patients undergoing TAAA surgery. We also hosted an international conference sponsored by NIH to develop consensus guidelines for preventing opioid‑induced respiratory depression (OIRD).

Our established NIH R01‑funded program in basic, translational and clinical research focuses on pathogenic mechanisms of postoperative ileus and POGD that cost billions in healthcare costs due to extended hospitalizations, complications and readmissions. New or ongoing NIH R01‑funded studies investigate ‘Enteric neuropathy’, surgical trauma and mechanical stress‑induced Postoperative ileus (POI), and ‘GPCRs in neuroinflammation and POI’. We are interested in developing novel therapeutic targets in postsurgical ileus (e.g., for neuroinflammation associated with glia, neurons and immune cells, purinergic signaling, reactive glia, Ca2+ neuroimaging, patch‑clamp recordings, neuroplasticity, alterations in neural circuit behavior, programmed cell death and ferroptosis).

Our efforts are complemented by further development of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols that is a College of Medicine priority. The Medical Director of ERAS protocols in the College of Medicine is a physician scientist who implemented over 20 ERAS protocols to date. The Chair of the department is the President of ERAS USA. Tremendous opportunities exist for research and randomized controlled trials.

A funded multi‑institutional Patient Center Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant investigates new therapeutic strategies to reduce or prevent postoperative delirium, POCD and provide neuroprotection in elderly patients.

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