Description:

Direct Supervisor: Department Chair
FTE: 100%
Appointment Type:  Tenure/Tenure Track - 12 months
Title/Rank - Professor or Associate Professor
Primary Location:  Oklahoma University Health Science - Oklahoma City

Primary Responsibilities:

The Department of Nutritional Sciences is expanding through a new initiative where successful candidates will maintain a strong extramurally-funded research program focused on investigating human nutrition. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, molecular mechanisms of micronutrient and macronutrient function in human health; gut microbiome; precision nutrition; nutritional interventions impacting diabetes, cancer, or healthspan; community nutrition; food security and safety; and performance nutrition. We are particularly interested in candidates that compliment and expand existing expertise within the Department, engage campus partners, and with demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills. Campus partners include the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma Center for Geroscience and Healthy Brain Aging, and a growing neuroscience intiative. Successful candidates will be expected to participate in teaching, mentoring, and training of graduate and professional students and mentoring junior faculty. 

ENVIRONMENT: The Department of Nutritional Sciences has research strengths in food security and safety, behavioral nutrition and epidemiology, redox biology and protein biochemistry, surgical oncology and critical care nutrition, diabetes pathology and management, and interprofessional dynamics across health professions. Research efforts are buoyed by advanced core facilities covering all aspects of biomedical research including high-content omics, advanced microscopy and imaging, biostatistics, and protein production. The department is located in a new 109,000 square foot building housing the College of Allied Health, with opportunities for expansion. This includes a variety of specialized research laboratory space.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Earned post-professional doctoral degree from an accredited university.
• Record of scholarly dissemination with defined research interests and expertise including extramural funding that aligns with their career stage.
• Experience with university teaching, mentoring, and training of graduate and professional students.

Applications should include a letter of intent describing qualifications and experience, a complete curriculum vitae, a research statement, and three letters of recommendation.   Applicants should apply at:  http://apply.interfolio.com/150462.

Submissions will be evaluated on a rolling-basis. For additional information, please contact Dr. Frank Hays at Franklin-Hays@ouhsc.edu.