Director & Associate/Full Professor

The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida is seeking a Division Director for the Division of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science at the rank of associate professor or above on the tenure-track. This individual will provide strategic leadership and oversee a division with 14 biomedical informatics faculty; 30 staff, including project managers, software engineers and programmers; and 40 graduate students. This division is one of three in the Department. The Director will work closely with leadership of the other Divisions (Clinical & Population Health Integration; Implementation Science & Health Interventions) and Departmental leadership.

The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics maintains a diverse funding portfolio that includes funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and state agencies. The portfolio totals $30 million annually. The Department offers two degrees: a certificate, master’s, and PhD in biomedical informatics and a certificate, masters and PhD in Health Outcomes and Implementation Science.

The University of Florida is home to outstanding computing resources, including high-performance computing clusters, AI-driven analytics infrastructure, and extensive data repositories. These resources also include a collaboration with NVIDIA. The Department serves as the coordinating center for the PCORI-funded OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network. OneFlorida+ houses a centralized data trust containing electronic health record (EHR) data linked to census data and other datasets for over 24 M individuals in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and California.

The Division Director of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science will lead the division’s research, education, and collaboration efforts, with a focus on:

Strategic leadership

• Providing strategic leadership across the core missions of the Division on research, education, and collaborative services, ensuring alignment with HOBI, College of Medicine, and broader university goals.
• Establishing a solid, innovative vision for the BMI Division, positioning HOBI as a national hub for biomedical informatics research.
• Cultivating external relationships locally, statewide, and nationally to expand research partnerships, and increase visibility for HOBI’s biomedical informatics research.
• Facilitating the recruitment, hiring, and retention of exceptional BMI faculty members
• Fostering a collaborative environment.

Research

• Advancing biomedical informatics research, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science methodologies.
• Leading and collaborating on competitive federal and foundation grants that focus on and/or incorporate biomedical informatics.
• Providing mentorship and career development support for early-stage investigators, particularly in securing career development awards and transitioning to R01-level funding.

Education

• Enhancing and expanding the BMI Certificate, Master’s, and PhD programs to attract and retain top-tier graduate students.
• Developing innovative curricula and training programs aligned with emerging trends in AI, digital health, and population health informatics.

Collaborative activities

• Partnering with UF’s AI initiatives to drive advancements in clinical and population health informatics.
• Collaborating with researchers from the other divisions in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (Implementation Science, andHealth Interventions and Clinical and Population Health Integration) as well as integration and translation of BMI discoveries into practice across UF Health.
• Collaborating with UF Centers and Institutes on BMI Initiatives including but not limited to the NCI-Designated UF Health Cancer Center, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Institute for Child Health Policy, the Integrated Data Repository, and the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network.
• Facilitate joint faculty appointments with other colleges and departments within the University of Florida, encouraging interdisciplinary research.

Commensurate with education and experience

• Must possess a Ph.D. in bioinformatics, health informatics, medical informatics, biotechnology,
  biomedical engineering, computer science or related fields or M.D. with additional specialty training in biomedical informatics as evidenced by an M.S. or Clinical Informatics board certification or comparable training.

• Expert in field as demonstrated with PhD in bioinformatics, health informatics, medical informatics, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, computer science or related fields or board certification in Clinical Informatics (ABPM).
  
• Have a track record of successful federal grant funding in informatics.
• Show national distinction in research and teaching in an academic department or comparable environment.

Interested applicants should apply through Careers at UF. In addition, please attach the following to your application at the time of submission:

• Letter of interest
• Curriculum vitae
• List of three references 

The Search Committee will accept applications until the position is filled. Applications will be reviewed starting as soon as possible after the posting date.

Final candidate will be required to provide official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered “official” if a designation of “Issued to Student” is visible. Degrees earned from an education institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found at http://www.naces.org/.

If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call (352) 392‐2477 or the Florida Relay System at (800) 955-8771 (TDD).