Infectious Disease Faculty Position

Loyola University Health System (LUHS) and Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital are seeking a full-time Infectious Disease faculty member.   Research opportunities are abundant and encouraged at the translational, basic science and clinical level.  The preferred candidate will be board eligible/board certified.   Responsibilities include patient care, clinical teaching of medical students and residents, as well as clinical and/or basic science research.  The appropriate academic appointment will be provided based on the candidate’s qualifications.

 Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) is a 547-licensed-bed quaternary hospital in Maywood, Illinois that includes the William G. & Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Loyola has 7,221 employees including 859 physicians, 491 residents and 108 fellows. Loyola is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in Illinois, and is currently ranked No. 4 in the state by both U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek. LUMC is part of Loyola Medicine, a three-hospital system that includes LUMC, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,800 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola Medicine is part of Trinity Health, one of the largest Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation with 92 hospitals in 22 states.

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital (http://www.hines.va.gov/), located on a 147-acre campus 12 miles west of downtown Chicago and bordering Loyola's medical center, offers primary, extended and specialty care and serves as a tertiary care referral center for VISN 12. Specialized clinical programs include Blind Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury, Neurosurgery, Radiation Therapy and Cardiovascular Surgery. Hines VAH currently operates 483 beds and six community based outpatient clinics in Hoffman Estates, Kankakee, Oak Lawn, Aurora, LaSalle (Peru), and Joliet.

Interested candidates should email cover letter and CV to Katie Delaney, Physician Recruitment Office, at katie.delaney@luhs.org as well as apply online at https://www.careers.luc.edu/.

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Loyola is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer/educator and is committed to a drug free and smoke free workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion (except where religion is a bona fide occupational qualification for the job), national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.