Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School (HMS), seeks applications and nominations for the position of Professor or Associate Professor of Medicine to serve as Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine.
The Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC includes 30 full-time members with academic appointments at HMS, recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in clinical care and teaching and its broad research agenda. The Division provides clinical care through its inpatient consultation services, including for specialized immunocompromised patients; its outpatient Infectious Diseases, Urgent Care and Travel Clinics; and its OPAT (Out-patient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy) Clinic. The Division is actively involved in the education of HMS medical students, BIDMC residents, and Infectious Diseases Fellows and more broadly, through the national impact of the faculty’s publications and presentations. The BIDMC, a 783-bed tertiary and quaternary care hospital, is the major academic medical center within Beth Israel Lahey Health, a system comprising 13 hospitals, numerous ambulatory care sites and a large primary care base readily accessible to all the residents of Eastern Massachusetts.
The new Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease will have the opportunity to grow the division’s clinical services in partnership with a new hospital being built in collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In September 2023, BIDMC and its affiliated medical group Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, announced plans to collaborate with Dana-Farber to build the region’s only free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer patients. Learn more here.
The successful applicant will have a proven track record as an investigator in basic or clinical science. The ideal candidate will be a highly capable and credible clinician who can command the respect of the clinical team, who provides care in general infectious disease, ID in immunosuppressed patients, antibiotic stewardship and infection control, and conducts outpatient care in in general ID, follow-up administration of antibiotics and travel medicine.
Candidates with interest should submit a CV in confidence to: Page Ettle at [email protected].
BIDMC is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.