Nominations and Applications
Inquiries, nominations, and applications are invited. Interested candidates should submit confidentially, in electronic form (Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files preferred), a curriculum vitae and letter of interest to [email protected] .
Michigan Medicine seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Michigan and to maintain the excellence of the University. We welcome applications from anyone who would bring additional dimensions to the University's research, teaching, and clinical mission, including women, members of minority groups, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
The Department of Pediatrics, like the University of Michigan as a whole, is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons and will not discriminate against any individual because of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status. The University of Michigan is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.
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The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for the position of Director. The Director of the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center will play a key leadership role in advancing the mission of the Center within the University of Michigan, as well as within the national and international landscape. The Director will be a visionary scholar of national stature with expertise in child health research who can effectively lead a multidisciplinary Center of faculty, trainees, and staff, and foster collaborations with academic and research units across the University of Michigan. The center has a tremendous history of being a vital connector at the University of Michigan, facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration across the University including biomedical, health, quantitative social sciences, the humanities, public health, and a broad range of professional schools. The new Director will have the opportunity to build on the Center's solid foundation and strengths and articulate a vision and strategy for further expanding its national and international reputation and impact while fostering the growth and development of the next generation of researchers and scholars.
The Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR)
Founded in 1998, the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, later renamed The Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR) is a premier multidisciplinary child and adolescent health services research center based in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. With 18 core faculty investigators and more than 40 research staff, fellows, and students, CHEAR is one of the largest health services research centers in the country focused on children and adolescents. CHEAR's multidisciplinary work encompasses health services research, health policy, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, social sciences, and population health sciences. Members of CHEAR are dedicated to examining essential aspects of child health and well-being that includes vaccinations, newborn screening, obesity, asthma, and costs of care, and their research examines health care data using innovative data science methods to elucidate underlying factors to enable groundbreaking solutions. CHEAR conducts research and training in child health outcomes and health policy across several core research themes, including innovative data science methods to aggregate, integrate and analyze datasets, emerging technologies, outcomes research, policy and communications.
Collaboration is essential to the multidisciplinary research CHEAR conducts and as a result members of CHEAR work with partners across more than 10 schools, colleges, and institutes within the University of Michigan. Members of CHEAR are committed to being a policy resource and actively engage and identify current high-priority issues for the advancement of child health building on a long-standing history of collaboration with the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate state public health programs and initiatives. CHEAR's research is funded by federal agencies (NIH, AHRQ, CDC, PCORI, HRSA), foundations, state government, and philanthropy resulting in $6-7 million each year in extramural funding for nearly 100 active research studies and faculty investig
