Psychiatry— Faculty Position, College of Medicine
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Psychiatrist, Medical Doctor
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Job Description
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UT Health Science Center) is seeking full-time psychiatrists for adult outpatient and adult consultation liaison psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatrists for consultation liaison, emergency psychiatry, and outpatient psychiatry. Areas of need for adult psychiatrists include general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and addiction psychiatry.
Job Description
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UT Health Science Center) is seeking full-time psychiatrists for adult outpatient and adult consultation liaison psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatrists for consultation liaison, emergency psychiatry, and outpatient psychiatry. Areas of need for adult psychiatrists include general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and addiction psychiatry.
Responsibilities
The positions are at the faculty rank of Assistant Professor or above, and consist of clinical care, clinical supervision of trainees, departmental and university service, and teaching. There are options for protected research time for interested applicants. Active areas of research include prospective clinical and clinical trials in addiction, pain in aging, cancer, and dementia, large neuroimaging database analyses, clinical trials in child and adolescent psychiatry, and epidemiological, outcomes, and service delivery research through our Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being.
The Department of Psychiatry at the UT Health Science Center is a growing and thriving department that is actively recruiting faculty in several areas.
The department hosts a rich training and clinical program, with psychiatric care and training at Alliance Behavioral Health, Lakeside Behavioral Health, the Memphis Veterans Administration hospital, the Memphis Mental Health Institute, Regional One Health, UT University Clinical Health, the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We train about 175 medical students per year, and sponsor a Psychiatry Residency, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, and a Post- pediatric Portal Fellowship.
Qualifications
Required and
Preferred Qualifications
- MD, DO or equivalent, Board certification or Board eligibility required.
- Completion of an accredited residency or equivalent as permitted by state law is required and sub certifications/training highly preferred.
- International Medical Graduates are encouraged to apply.
- H1B and J1 visa, with waiver, is supported for appropriate applicants.
- At the time of start, current licensure as a Physician in Tennessee, current DEA certification number, eligible for malpractice insurance, relocation is not required, however the work is on-site.
- Must be able to work with residents / fellows, medical students, and other trainees.
Please contact Ron Cowan, MD, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, UT Health Science Center. Email:
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Benefits
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- Applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.
The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA/V institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.
Memphis, TN
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