Job Description
General Description
Position in Occupational Medicine, City University of New York
The Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment (BCCHE) at Queens College, CUNY, seeks a trained occupational medicine physician or other physician with equivalent experience to become associate director of a national occupational medicine screening program at university-based occupational and environmental health research institute. Tasks involve overseeing program staff; ensuring quality of program procedures and outputs; maintaining relationships with unions, subcontractors and external organizations, including the funding agency; and conducting research within screening program. Additional research opportunities may become available.
The Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment is an environmental and occupational health research institute at Queens College, City University of New York, the nation's largest public university. The mission of the Center is to identify and help rectify environmental and occupational threats to human health (http://commonercenter.org/index.html). Areas of current research include air pollution, immigrant and occupational health, lung cancer screening and World Trade Center health effects.
CUNY is an equal opportunity employer and seeks diversity in its faculty and staff.
Other Duties
The opportunity to spend part-time in an occupational medicine clinic may be possible, if desired. BCCHE is located in mid-Queens on the campus of Queens College.
Qualifications
Candidates should be physicians who are board-certified or board-eligible in occupational medicine or other specialty with equivalent occupational health experience. Clinical and public health expertise is required. The successful candidate will work directly with long-time BCCHE Director and screening program co-director, Dr. Steven Markowitz.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Commoner Center
Full Time
$140,000.00 - $174,000.00
Jul 04, 2018 (Or Until Filled)