University of Colorado | CU Anschutz Medical Campus
School of Medicine, Center for Health and Artificial Intelligence
Professor, Women’s Health and AI
Position #00795648 – Requisition #25462
* Applications are accepted electronically ONLY at www.cu.edu/cu-careers
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Campus/Unit-Specific Exemptions:
- Anschutz Campus – Exemptions are allowed for medical or religious reasons.
- Denver Campus - Exemptions are allowed for medical, religious, or personal reasons.
- Consolidated/Central Services Administration – Will follow Anschutz policy on exemptions.
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus seeks individuals with demonstrated commitment to creating an inclusive learning and working environment. We value the ability to engage effectively with students, faculty and staff of diverse backgrounds.
The Center for Health and Artificial Intelligence has an opening for a full-time Professor, Women’s Health and AI position.
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals - UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital Colorado - that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year. Innovative, interconnected and highly collaborative, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus delivers life-changing treatments, patient care and professional training and conducts world-renowned research fueled by over $650 million in research grants. For more information, visit www.cuanschutz.edu .
Nature of Work
The Center for Health Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine invite applications for a Professor with a research program at the intersection of Women’s Health and Artificial Intelligence. The successful applicant will hold the inaugural Lyda M. Ludeman Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics in Women’s Health Research, which was awarded to the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research to provide for research and teaching that will focus on biomedical informatics as it relates to women’s health.
The Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus invests in and conducts groundbreaking research in women’s health and sex differences with a current focus on cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and the integration of physical and mental health. Given that research on women’s health was largely not included in studies until the 1990s and has historically been underfunded, the Ludeman Center is dedicated to funding the next generation of scientists focused on women’s health and sex differences research. In addition, the Center is committed to mentoring and training young scientists while educating the community and healthcare providers about findings in the field.
The Center for Health AI fosters a thriving community of researchers on the Anschutz Medical Campus who are inventing and deploying advanced analytical approaches. The goal of building this community is to make the Campus a leader in translating data into advances in research practice, health care delivery, and population health and in scaling these to provide nationwide benefit through innovative technologies.
This position considers the unique attributes of sex and gender differences in women and the unique challenges that these attributes pose to developing robust care, public health strategies, and understanding of the underlying mechanistic biology. The Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research is a national leader in cutting-edge research on issues that pose a significant threat to women’s health – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and the integration of mental health and physical health. We are particularly interested in research that considers informatics methods that bring together attributes such as chromosomal, physiological and biological aspects with social and cultural differences. Faculty in the Center for Health AI focus on computational approaches that derive insights from data to lead to advances in research and medical practice. The new faculty member will join a highly interactive, supportive, and interdisciplinary community of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students that extends across both Centers and enjoy access to state-of-the-art equipment and facilities on the Anschutz Medical Campus. The primary duties of the faculty member are to develop a research program of national and international importance at the intersection of artificial intelligence and women’s health research and sex/gender differences research and to mentor and educate trainees and students.
The campus includes a vibrant and entrepreneurial basic research community with multiple areas of excellence and translational impact. There are many opportunities on campus to translate data-intensive research advances into improved care. The Center for Health AI is collocated on the Anschutz Medical Campus with the UC Health University of Colorado Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. The Anschutz Campus is home to Colorado’s only Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. The Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine houses the region’s largest Biobank. The campus has made a significant investment in an enterprise health data warehouse collecting electronic health record data from 10-member hospitals and dozens of clinics available for research. This warehouse integrates electronic health record data for 1.7 million active patients from 12-member hospitals, >800 clinics, and state public health databases for research.
Within the intersection of these fields, the search is not specific to a single data type or analytical approach. Potential data types may include various health records data, -omic profiling methods, wearable data, app-based data, and combinations thereof.
We will offer successful candidates a competitive startup package.
We expect this faculty member to find their academic home in our newly forming Department of Biomedical Informatics.
Professional Field
Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Differences, Biomedical Informatics, Machine Learning
Examples of Work Performed
- Develop and direct a research program of national and international importance.
- Educate, train, and mentor medical and graduate students. Faculty at the Associate Professor level and above will also mentor early-career faculty.
- Teaching as assigned by the department chair based on the needs of appropriate education programs.
- Serve as a member of the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research senior faculty. As a Ludeman Center senior faculty member, collaborate in an interdisciplinary way with other Ludeman Center scientists to enhance women’s health and sex/gender differences research across the CU-AMC campus and participate in programs and events that involve the larger Ludeman Center community.
- Participate in service activities within the department, the university, and the broader scientific community that contribute to the accomplishment of department and university missions and that promote the success and welfare of the broader scientific community. A sample of participatory activities follow:
- Keeping abreast of current literature, formulating long-and short-term research goals, designing and performing appropriate experiments to achieve those goals, maintaining compliance with all institutional, state, and federal biomedical research guidelines, rules, and regulations, evaluating data and protocols, preparing and submitting manuscripts based on research conducted within the research program, and preparing and submitting grant applications to appropriate federal or private agencies to secure funding for the research program.
- Interacting effectively with other members of departmental faculty and the scientific community to establish fruitful research collaborations.
- Presenting research in all appropriate venues to increase the awareness of research being performed in the faculty member’s research program to facilitate collaborations and interactions and to increase the visibility of positive research impacts of science within society.
Supervision Received
The Professor reports to the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. The Professor will be expected to develop programs in concert with the Chair of the Department and the Director of the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research.
Supervision Exercised
The Professor will supervise other employees. This individual will be responsible for the daily management, supervision, training and evaluation of personnel (such as graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professional research assistants) whose positions are funded by research grants on which s/he is the principal investigator. These employee(s) will report directly to the principal investigator.
Salary and Benefits:
The salary range (or hiring range) has been established at $188,000 to $266,000
The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training.
The above salary range (or hiring range ) represents the University’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck. The University of Colorado provides generous leave, health plans and retirement contributions that add to your bottom line.
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Diversity and Equity:
The University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the employment application process. To request an accommodation pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, please contact the Human Resources ADA Coordinator at hr.adacoordinator@ucdenver.edu .
The University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse student body, faculty and administrative staff. The university strives to promote a culture of inclusiveness, respect, communication and understanding. We encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, persons within the LGBTQ+ community, and all veterans. The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
The University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our faculty, staff, students and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct background investigations for all prospective employees.
