Assistant or Associate Clinical Professor of Nephrology and Urology

The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences in Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University invites applications for an assistant or associate clinical professor in small animal internal medicine to deliver clinical nephrology and urology, interventional endourology and extracorporeal therapy services as part of a two-clinician service. The successful applicant will also be responsible for teaching and supervising veterinary students and house officers;

advising and consulting with referring veterinarians and clients; and engaging in sufficient clinical research and scholarly activity to remain current in their discipline. In accordance with School policies, this position is eligible for appointment with continuous term (tenure equivalent).

We seek an enthusiastic, team-oriented clinician who will provide outstanding patient care, client care, and service to our referring veterinarians in the Foster Hospital for Small Animals. The applicant should have experience and competence in the most common endourologic procedures such as cystoscopy, fluoroscopy, laser, stenting, subcutaneous ureteral bypass, and percutaneous cystolithotomy. The applicant should also have experience or a strong interest in extracorporeal therapies.

We are fully equipped to provide interventional endourology and other minimally invasive procedures. We also have a well‑established extracorporeal therapy service equipped to provide renal replacement therapies (Fresenius™ 2008T, Prismaflex™, Carpediem™), hemoperfusion, membrane and centrifugal therapeutic plasma exchange, and mononuclear cell collection.

The successful candidate will work with a team of six American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Small Animal Internal Medicine diplomates. The candidate will share the responsibilities for the nephrology/urology service, supporting clinical nephrology and urology cases, cases requiring endourologic procedures, and cases requiring extracorporeal therapies with another ACVIM/American College of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology (ACVNU) diplomate. Some management of general internal medicine cases will also be required.

On call duties after hours during the week and weekends for emergency endourologic procedures and extracorporeal therapies will be evenly shared between the two service clinicians. A 2‑year fellow in extracorporeal therapy is scheduled to start in the summer of 2026, pending identification of a suitable candidate. Eight small animal internal medicine residents are trained in extracorporeal therapy and rotate on call with oversight by the nephrology/urology faculty.

There are two dedicated extracorporeal therapy technicians and a dedicated special procedures technician for interventional procedures.

The FHSA has a robust clinical caseload (~35,000 cases/year), excellent student teaching and house officer training programs, and supports clinical research programs. Additional features of the FHSA include VECCS Level 1 emergency service, an interventional radiology suite, two dedicated rooms for medicine special procedures, Olympus and Storz endoscopy, bronchoscopy and cystoscopy with image capturing, a dedicated ultrasound machine, a 3T MRI, a helical multi‑slice CT, a fully equipped nuclear medicine suite, C‑arm fluoroscopy, portable radiography, laparoscopy/arthroscopy, and Varian linear accelerator with cone beam CT, a multi‑leaf collimator and stereotactic radiotherapy.

The position responsibilities will include 28‑30 weeks of assigned clinical activity, with time allocated for formal education activity, research and scholarly activity, and administrative activity in accordance with the interests and expertise of the successful applicant. The start date is negotiable, but a start date no later than September 2026 is preferred.

Requirements include a DVM or its equivalent and completion of a residency program in internal medicine approved by the ACVIM or the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine by the effective date of appointment. Board certification in small animal internal medicine is required at, or no later than two‑years following, the date of…