Medical Faculty Assoc. or Full Professor; Clinical – Tenured or Tenure-Track – CHASM & Med Ed

Medical Faculty Assoc. or Full Professor (Clinical) – Tenured or Tenure-Track – CHASM & Med Ed - CARES

The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine (SoM) is the only medical school in the CUNY system. Our innovative curriculum allows students to complete both their undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees in seven years. CUNY SoM graduated its first MD class in 2020. In addition, the CUNY SoM offers a 28-months Physician Assistant (PA) program to prepare health professionals licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision.

Our mission is
1) to provide access to medical education to talented youth from historically underrepresented in backgrounds in medicine and to develop health professionals committed to practicing in under-served communities and
2) to perform innovative research in community health and biomedicine.

The Medical Education (Med Ed) and the Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) department play a critical role in our mission-driven BS/MD program, Physician Assistant program, and new Post Baccalaureate program through their teaching and research programs. The CHASM department curricular responsibilities include providing a comprehensive effort to educate our students in the social, economic, political and behavioral determinants of health and disease, with a focus on population health, health disparities and health care policy.

CHASM’s current research agenda is centered on chronic disease epidemiology, health behavior, health policy, health services, and community-based research. Med Ed is responsible for providing a comprehensive effort to educate our students to apply foundational sciences and clinical principles of medical practice to provide cross-cutting care to produce supremely competent healthcare professionals that New York Needs. Med Ed’s research focuses on developing an evidence-based pedagogy to deliver on mission.

The school seeks to recruit and retain faculty who are clinician-scientist, and exceptional medical educators who have a track record of excellence across the school’s quadripartite mission as evidence by external federal funding and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

The CUNY Comprehensive Access to Resources and Essential Services (CARES) is an innovative student-centered program designed to increase graduation and retention rates at CUNY by assisting students to meet their essential needs for food, housing, health care, and mental health services. CUNY CARES trains and pays students to serve as navigators who link their peers to campus and community services and public benefits such as SNAP and Medicaid.

It partners with health care and social service providers and city agencies. In Fall 2023, CUNY launched CUNY CARES at its three Bronx campuses. Based on results of an ongoing evaluation f its first three years, the long-term vision is to expand CARES to all 26 CUNY campuses serving 240,000 students, the majority from low-income, immigrant and communities of color.

CUNY CARES studies showed that in the Bronx, 50% of matriculated students had two or more unmet essential needs.

CUNY CARES is sponsored by the CUNY Chancellor’s Office of Transformation in collaboration with Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College, Lehman College, the CUNY School of Public Health and CUNY SoM.

The CUNY Medical School now seeks to hire a visionary leader in education and health disparity, senior faculty researcher with expertion at the Associate or Full Professor level to provide academic, scientific and medical leadership to CUNY CARES. The faculty member will be part of the Med Ed and/or CHASM department depending on their research discipline. The faculty member will provide visionary leadership for CUNY CARES, leading the effort to make it a local and national model for promoting academic health and life success and closing gaps in health and educational attainment across urban and disadvantaged populations.

The hired faculty member will have a national reputation for their scholarship, research or service. They will work with partners within CUNY, the medical school, CUNY schools…