Director, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine

The University of Colorado School of Medicine invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM).

The position reports to the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs. We are seeking an individual committed to sustaining and augmenting the school’s excellence in education, research, and clinical care, with an emphasis on equity and inclusivity. The Director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) and the members of the Center seek to unify and focus research, education, and clinical care to accelerate the development and application of personally tailored health care strategies. In its initial stage of development, the Center has emerged as a crucial initiative for the campus and our affiliated health system. The Center houses the region’s largest Biobank Research Program, which links to a multi-institutional enterprise health data warehouse. The Director must be an outstanding scientist committed to both research success and clinical application, who will leverage the Center’s resources and lead it in new directions in personalized medicine. The Director is expected to develop and lead a thriving research community that is poised to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine.

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, one of four campuses in the University of Colorado System, is the major academic medical center in the Rocky Mountain region, and one of the largest and most comprehensive biomedical research and clinical care centers in the western United States. The Anschutz Medical Campus is home to an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, as well as UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The CU School of Medicine has innovative education and training programs, highly regarded clinical programs, and distinctive and highly productive research programs fueled by more than $516 million per year in grants. The school employs nearly 4,000 faculty and has nearly 1,000 faculty members employed by affiliated institutions. The school’s total annual clinical and research revenue is about $2 billion per year. In addition, the school and its supporters have invested significant resources in research programs, including a newly created Center for Health Artificial Intelligence.      

Applications are accepted electronically at CU Careers Job Posting/Req. #23010, via the following link: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=23010&lang=en.  First consideration will be given to applications received by November 15, 2021.