Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and The Department of Medicine seeks an established senior investigator to:

• Promote the growth and development of research faculty.
• Recruit, with the Chair, early-stage, mid-career and senior investigators to create a robust body of investigators whose scholarship addresses health and health outcomes, particularly focused at the intersection of rural health and health equity. 
• Develop an infrastructure to support and engage learners and faculty in research and scholarship across the Department.
• Collaborate thoughtfully and effectively with Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine’s research infrastructure to optimize opportunities for impact.
• Serve as a liaison to research leadership across the system, including at Dartmouth Hitchcock, Geisel School of Medicine, and the White River Junction VA.
• Maintain their own portfolio of extramurally supported research.

Working with the Chair and the Department Administrator the Vice Chair of Research will design a comprehensive plan to support research efforts within the Department, including creating a research strategic plan. The Vice Chair will also work with other Vice Chairs and Section Chiefs to create mentorship structures and a community of scholarship. This will include advising on paths for scholarship for non-investigators, helping them utilize Department resources to produce scholarly activities to promote academic enhancement.

The vice chair for research will play a critical leadership role within the Department of Medicine, serving on the leadership team. The Vice Chair will work with the Chair and other Vice Chairs to help strategize and execute the departmental vision, serving together as a body to guide the Department and its work.

Criteria for the position include:

• Associate or Full professor at Geisel School of Medicine
• Active investigator, holding at least one extramural grant (federal, national foundation, network/consortium)
• Terminal doctorate (MD, PhD, MD-PhD, DO, ScD, DrPH, or equivalent degree)
• Have a national profile in the appropriate specialty or field of scholarship (society/association committee chair, journal editorship, study section membership, research collaborations, awards/honors)
• Preference will be given to those individuals with a career focus in health-services research or implementation science.

About Dartmouth:

Dartmouth Health is New Hampshire’s largest, and only academic, health system. Dartmouth Health serves a population of 1.9 million patients across northern New England and provides access to more than 1,800 providers. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, the Dartmouth Health Children’s hospital, 5 member hospitals, 30 ambulatory clinics across the region, a Visiting Nurse Association and the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care.

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth was established in Hanover, NH in 1797 and to this day, strives to improve the lives of the people it serves: students, patients, and local and global communities. As one of America's top medical schools, Geisel is committed to creating new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve the most vexing challenges in health care. Geisel and Dartmouth Health are separate organizational entities that collaborate intimately on research, education, and key infrastructure programs. Additional clinical and academic collaborations include the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, VT; the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; the Tuck School of Business; the Thayer School of Engineering; the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies; and the Arts and Sciences departments and programs of Dartmouth College.

Research:

• Facilitate the growth of the Department’s research portfolio, including identifying or creating conditions for individual investigator success as well as forming collaborations that could compete for larger center or institutional grants (e.g. COBRE, Pepper Center, T-, K-, or U-grants, or similar mechanisms).
• Recruit additional funded (federally and other), research faculty (including MD, PhD, and other terminal doctoral degrees) in areas of departmental focus.
• Coordinate clinical research with other departments and institutes and actively develop new research collaborations.
• Work with investigators to seek, obtain, and implement industry-funded trials, which either advance the Department’s core missions or provide additional support to research staff.
• Provide updates to Chair, Chiefs, faculty, and others related to funding opportunities and new developments within the NIH and other sponsors.
• Advise on research budgets, especially clinical trials, to ensure they are appropriate and equitable. Works with Chair and investigators to manage clinical trial residuals.
• Work with research staff to create process for internal research protocol reviews as required by Office of Research Operations or Institutional Review Board.
• Act as Chair Designee for research-related and other activities, as required.
• Create connections and collaborations across centers, institutes, and schools (e.g., The Dartmouth Institute, Thayer School of Engineering, Tuck School of Business).

Administrative:

• Working with both internal and external stakeholders, create a central, departmental administrative infrastructure for research and grants management.
• Assist with development of annual budget for clinical, translational, and foundational sciences research, including advising on investment of funds back into Department for continued growth of the research program. Works with investigators to ensure study budgets include plan for sustainability.
• Together with the Chair and Department Administrator, oversee overall research funds flow including ensuring appropriate and sustainable staffing levels, appropriate use of funds, etc.
• Works with research staff to maintain databases to provide information for research reports and research updates.
• Assist with organizing and participate in discussions of research topics and concerns at the student, resident, fellow, faculty, executive, and institutional levels.
• Evaluate key indicators of research performance and make recommendations on how to improve indicators, where appropriate. Key indicators include indirect cost maximization, research revenue, success rate, awarded grants, and impact.
• Represent the Department on research issues within the health system and school of medicine. This includes service on committees as assigned.
• Participate in departmental faculty meetings, Vice Chair meetings, Division Chief meetings and other research meetings. 
• Other duties and requirements as assigned by Department leadership.

Mentorship:

• Oversee career development/effort of junior research faculty, ensuring appropriate commitment, effort, and productivity.
• Create mentorship structures for trainees (e.g. residents, fellows) who have self-identified as committed future research faculty.
• Create mentorship structure within the Department to connect investigators to mentors as it may relate to scientific contact, career mentoring, or development of leadership skills.

Education:

• Create, in conjunction with education and clinical affairs leadership, a program to increase the academic productivity of educational faculty by providing targeted research support to help non-research faculty develop areas of interest and concentrated research programs.
• Assist with residency recruitment of candidates identified as potential future academic faculty. Evaluate potential for creation of research residency tracks, in conjunction with the residency director.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB):

• Promote aspects of DEIB within investigators, within research teams, and within the studies conducted in the Department, from bench to bedside, to promote health equity.
• Foster a supportive, collaborative environment where investigators of varying backgrounds and cultures can work together to conduct ground-breaking research while maintaining a safe and just culture of inclusivity.
• Work with Chair, Administrator, Vice Chairs, Section Chiefs, and others to foster a supportive work environment that promotes equitable distribution of resources and fair and transparent processes in hiring, retention, compensation, and career development.