Faculty.Professor.Assistant - Full-Time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at University of Pittsburgh

Position Description

Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Clinical Specialist Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Pharmacy & Therapeutics

School of Pharmacy

1. Brief statement of duties and responsibilities:

The Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy (SOP) is seeking a highly motivated, creative, team-orientated individual for a full-time, calendar year, appointment stream faculty position at the rank of assistant professor. The successful candidate will have their primary efforts focused on providing pharmacy services and direct care for patients within safety net settings in Pittsburgh. These efforts are part of the signature Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program for the Underserved. The main clinical practice site will be the long-established Birmingham Free Clinic, which is located at the UPMC Mercy Hospital complex. The candidate is expected to support the educational mission of the SOP through large and small classroom teaching and by serving as a preceptor for students, residents, and other trainees. Opportunities exist for this faculty member to participate in the SOP’s global health initiatives. This faculty position may be union eligible.

The University of Pittsburgh is in the top 2% of universities worldwide and is ranked # 7 in NIH funding with $1.5 Billion invested in research. The University was recently recognized by Forbes as a “New Ivy”—1 of only 10 public universities in the U.S with such a distinction. The School of Pharmacy was recently ranked # 8 by the US News and World Report.

Responsibilities for faculty position include:

• Serve as an ambulatory care pharmacy specialist in SOP-affiliated underserved clinics in Pittsburgh.

• Provide pharmacy services with faculty partners, other pharmacists, and trainees at SOP-affiliated underserved clinics which include direct patient care; patient-focused research; collaborative practice agreements; medication protocol development; initiating practice improvement initiatives; developing, maintaining, and organizing medication inventories and formularies is expected.

• Remain active in research and scholarship in line with their practice.

• Serve on committees at SOP as appropriate.

• Teach content to the Pharm.D. students in didactic lectures of students at the SOP.

• Precept for pharmacy students and residents as part of clinical service.

• Participate in the SOP’s global health initiatives (optional)

• Other duties/tasks as assigned by the Department Chair.

2. Minimum objective qualifications; other desirable qualifications:

Required:

• A Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from an accredited US university.

• Completion of an ASHP accredited pharmacy residency.

• Possess clinical expertise in ambulatory care practices.

• Must secure a Pennsylvania pharmacist license.

Preferred:

• Experience in teaching in a Pharm.D. curriculum.

• Experience working in underserved care clinics.

• Experience in global health.

• Board certification is highly desired (e.g. BCACP).

3. Rank and/or title; salary range or minimum:

Appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor.

4. Tenure/tenure-stream/non-tenure stream; full/part-time: