Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine combined with position as specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital

- with focus on education and research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa) conducts education and research in physiology, pharmacology, anesthesiology, and intensive care at a high international level. The department has about 400 employees, 30 research groups, and 75 doctoral students. We offer a dynamic research and teaching environment in newly renovated premises in the newly built Biomedicum at Campus Solna, which is linked to corresponding clinical teaching and research environments at the Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at Karolinska University Hospital. The research activities at the department include the fields of anesthesiology and intensive care, traumatology, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, neuropsychopharmacology, neuroinflammation, cellular signaling, pharmacogenetics, regenerative medicine, renal physiology, muscle physiology, and pain. The collaboration between preclinical and clinical researchers at Karolinska University Hospital provides excellent opportunities for translational research.

Description of the subject area

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care is a combined academic and clinical field, which also constitutes a medical specialty comprising the clinical activities of perioperative medicine and intensive care. The subject area is dominated by applied physiology and pharmacology and has for several decades had its academic development strongly linked to the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. The Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology was established in 2005 and conducts internationally leading research and education primarily in anesthesiology, traumatology and intensive care. The academic activities take place in close collaboration with the Region Stockholm's health care services in perioperative medicine and intensive care and have for more than 15 years been an integrated part of the anesthesia, surgery, and intensive care activities at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna. The clinical activities in anesthesiology and intensive care at Karolinska University Hospital are comprised of a hospital-wide organization called the Function Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care (PMI), to which the majority of the clinical researchers/teachers at the department are affiliated. For more than two decades, Karolinska University Hospital has had the country's largest trauma operation with a strong connection to education and research. Traumatology is a profile area for the hospital.

A research platform consisting of an experimental unit, a unit for clinical research, and a unit for outcomes research and epidemiology has been established with joint funding from Karolinska Institutet and the Region. At the section, there is a well-established translational research laboratory with access to cell and animal experimental models closely linked to technical platforms for genomics and proteomics and biochemical analyses on cell, animal, and human materials. The laboratory is an important basic scientific resource and is closely linked to clinical research in anesthesiology and intensive care. Function PMI has contributed with strategic funds to strengthen the infrastructure and connect the preclinical activities with the clinical research unit at PMI.

Your mission

You will lead and develop translational education in physiology, pharmacology, anesthesiology, and traumatology at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels. The role also includes conducting high-quality research and providing doctoral education in anesthesiology with a focus on traumatology. You will also take on leadership responsibilities for research and education, particularly within the educational organization of the department. The position involves acting as a research group groupleader, with responsibilities for personnel, workplace environment, and other administrative tasks, as well as collaborating with other research groups within the department, at Karolinska Institutet, both nationally and internationally, as well as with external societal stakeholders. Other responsibilities typically associated with a professorship include administrative duties and internal and external committee assignments, both nationally and internationally. 

The employment is divided into 50 percent at Karolinska Institutet and 50 percent at the Karolinska University Hospital.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for employment as Professor with focus on education and research, the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical expertise, good scientific expertise and clinical expertise (See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet).

The employment will be combined with an employment as specialist physician or assistant chief physician or chief physician in anesthesiology and intensive care at the Medical Unit Perioperative Medicine Solna, Function Perioperative Medicine, and Intensive Care at Karolinska University Hospital and therefore you must have an MD with specialist competence in anesthesiology and intensive care as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Since the employment includes clinical work, you must, besides English, demonstrate proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian or Danish (C1 level according to the common European reference scale, CERS).

It is a requirement that you have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education, or have gained equivalent competence, as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution

Assessment criteria

The Professorship has a focus on education and research. The assessment will consider qualifications as follows: scientific expertise (3), pedagogical expertise (3), leadership, development and collaboration expertise (2) and clinical expertise (2). When appointing a professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria specified in the guidelines for employment regulations apply in relation to the established employment profile.

It is a strong merit if you have a documented ability to administratively lead educational activities and further develop cell and animal experimental research as well as collaborate with clinical research environments focused on anesthesiology and traumatology, also in close collaboration with other universities.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology | Karolinska Institutet 

Application

Your application must contain the following documents in English: a cover letter as well as a resumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, all the submitted documents should be written in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

Clinical position at Karolinska University Hospital:

To obtain an employment as specialist physician (chief physician, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) at Karolinska University Hospital, assessment of the applicant’s clinical qualifications by the hospital’s Expert Committee is mandatory.

Hence, the documents listed below are required for determining the correct service level.

• Karolinska University Hospital’s form for Curriculum Vitae (in Swedish)
• Specialist certificate(s) in anesthesiology and intensive care*
• Certificate on PhD degree**
• Certificate regarding docent/associate professor **
• List of publications (10 most important)

*including specialist certificate(s) from other countries

**when applicable

Link to criteria for specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital (in Swedish).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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