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This is a full-time faculty position in the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine - Jacksonville, with primary assignment in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and University of Florida Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education, Services (UF CARES). The position will report to the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology and the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics. UF CARES is the only comprehensive HIV program in north Florida serving adults, adolescents, children and pregnant women. The Division has an active NIH funded research program and an accredited fellowship program. The University of Florida is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
Responsibilities will include:
- Provide outpatient primary and specialty care services for HIV exposed, infected and affected children, adolescents and their families at UF CARES.
- Provide inpatient consultation services at UF Health.
- Provide clinical teaching of trainees (residents, fellows, medical students, and other allied health professionals).
- Participate in research, quality improvement, and other CQI initiatives as appropriate.
- Contribute to divisional, departmental, and institutional service activities, including monthly meetings.
About UF Health:
UF Health is the Southeast’s premier academic health center and an integral part of the University of Florida. Our mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and research across the spectrum of basic, translational and clinical investigation. UF Health encompasses the Gainesville-based University of Florida colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine; the UF Health Shands family of hospitals in Gainesville; UF Health Jacksonville medical center; UF Health North; an academic campus in Jacksonville that is home to the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville and includes degree programs offered by the colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy; UF Health St. Johns in St. Augustine; UF Health Neighborhood Hospital in Ocala; and our campus in Central Florida, which includes UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital and UF Health Leesburg Hospital. It also includes primary care and specialty practices throughout Central, North Central and northern Florida and Southeast Georgia. The UF Health network of hospitals and physician practices manages more than 3 million inpatient and outpatient visits each year, and serves patients from all 67 Florida counties, from across the nation and from dozens of countries around the world.
About College of Medicine – Jacksonville (COM-J):
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 500 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 450 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.
Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.
To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visit https://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.
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