Assistant Professor in Pediatric Medicine Epidemiology

Do you want to contribute to medical research of top quality?

The division of clinical epidemiology is one of ten departments at the Department of Medicine Solna, KI. The department has a number of research groups in various medical fields, which all work with clinical issues and clinical epidemiological methodology. The service is located in research group Pasternak, which conducts research on drug safety, drug effects and drug use.

Your role

We are looking for a prospective colleague with experience in planning and carrying out large research projects in drug pendemiology, with a particular focus on pediatric drug podemiology and epidemiological and statistical methods relevant to the field. You have good analytical ability and take independent initiatives and is responsible for completing your assignments. You are comfortable with both working independently, as part of a research group, and as a supervisor of less experienced colleagues.

You will mainly engage in independent research within the research group, which includes seeking their own research grants to finance the service. There will also be the opportunity for teaching at doctoral and master level. The tasks include:

• Plan, implement and report research projects in pediatric drug epidemiology.
• Collaborate and contribute methodological expertise in other research projects at the center of drug epidemiology.
• Tutor Master's students, doctoral students and postdocs.
• Teaching at Masters and PhD level.

This employment that assistant lecturer is a time-limited employment on 6 year with the right to be tried for a promotion to the lecturer.

Eligibility requirements

Competent to be employed as the assistant lecturer is the person who has completed the doctoral degree or has achieved the corresponding scientific competence. Primarily, it should be considered that has exhausted a doctoral degree or has achieved the corresponding competence at most seven years, normally, before the application date. However, even those who have depicted a doctoral degree or achieved corresponding competence can also be considered for there are special reasons.

SPECIFIC REASONS:

• parental leave
• Trust assignments in union organizations
• Duty duty within the total defense
• longer illness

Reasons, the date and scope must be clearly specified in the application and must be strengthened with certificates.
In order for you to be regarded as authorized for employment as an assistant lector, you should show good scientific skill and good educational skill.

Eligibility requirements

• Deposed doctoral degree in drug epidemiology with experience in registry-based drug pidemiological research.
• Published at least two scientific peer review-reviewed original publications
  As a first or fair author, in addition to doctoral thesis.
• College Educational Education extensively at least three weeks according to SUHF's recommendations for
  Authorization University Educational Education.
• Experience of good quality teaching at the basic level, advanced level or
  forskarutbildningsnivå.
• Experience of teaching efforts in different types of teaching, such as clinical
  Skill training, lecture, Team-based learning or laboratory work.

Criteria

When employed by Deputy Lecturer at Karolinska Institut, the eligibility requirements and assessment grounds are set out in instructions to the employment order in relation to the established employment profile. See instructions for employment scheme for teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is also merit that you have showed

• Extensive experience in registry-based drug pidemiological research, especially research based on Swedish national health and population registers.
• A strong scientific publication history in pediatric drug podemiology, including publications as first and senior author of international peer reviewed journals.
• Documented ability to independently obtain competitive external research funding.
• Own research funding for the initial part of the employment and a clear and realistic plan for continued external financing.
• Documented scientific independence in relation to previous supervisors, including through the development of its own research line that generated research funding and resulted in scientific publications as first and senior author.
• International research experience such as postdoctoral or guest researcher at internationally leading research institution in the field.
• Experience of assignment research and research collaboration with international pharmaceutical companies.
• National and international collaborations.
• Very good knowledge of epidemiological and statistical methods for analysis of observational data.
• Very good programming ability in SAS and R, as well as an ability to quickly learn and apply new tools.
• Tutoring of doctoral students, postdocs and master students.
• Very good pedagogical ability and interest in teaching, both locally within the research group and in courses at the doctoral student level.

It is merit that the applicant has exhibited

• Very good ability in English, both in speech and writing.
• Very good ability in Swedish, both in speech and writing, to enable contact with authorities, clinics, and other partners.

The assessment bases above are a list of the types of skill that form the basis of the weighted assessment of the applicants. Since the service involves close cooperation with researchers in the research group and with external partners, great emphasis is placed on personal characteristics such as very good cooperation and a desire to contribute to the research group's development and a good and developing work environment for everyone.

The applicant must meet all the eligibility requirements listed for the current service.
It is based on an overall overall assessment of the applicants' merits and skill that Karolinska Institutet assesses which of the applicants who have the best conditions to contribute to a positive development of the business.

What are we offering?

A creative, international and inspiring environment filled with skills and curiosity. Karolinska Institutet (KI) is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here we conduct successful medical research and have the largest supply of medical education in Sweden. At KI you get to meet researchers with different research orientations that work together. It is the cross-border cooperation that contributes to KI's world-leading position in research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are trained at KI. A close relationship with health care is important for creating training and research of the highest quality. As university, Karolinska Institutet is also a state authority. This means that you as an employee receive good benefits through our collective agreement.

Placement

The service is placed withinDepartment of Medicine, Solna. The department consists of ten departments and each department consists of most research groups. The current service is located within Björn Pasternak's research group at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology (KEP) and the Center for Medical Pidemiology. The department houses around 200 epidemiologists and biostaticists in close cooperation with clinics to answer the most clinically relevant issues. The department is also responsible for a doctoral student program for clinics, providing good opportunities for teaching at doctoral level. The close cooperation with other research groups and KEP's focus on an open and integrated work environment
Provides great opportunities for personal development and establishment of a broad research network.

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Application

We will be happy to see your application in English, but it is also possible to apply for'svenska. Your application must contain the following documents: CV, personal letter, merit and description of planned research presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet's Merit portfolio.

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