Anesthesiology Associate Professor

The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, in partnership with Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Zone, is inviting applications for an academic/tenured track Academic Medicine and Health Service Program (AMHSP) positions for an anesthesiologist at associate or full professor levels. Candidates will be strongly interested in perioperative medicine and medical education.

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is one of Canada’s premier health-education institutions and has been internationally recognized among the world’s top 50 medical schools. The University of Alberta has been ranked amongst the top 100 teaching and research universities in the world serving over 39,000 students with more than 15,000 faculty and staff. The University has an annual budget in excess of $1.7 billion and attracts significant external funding.

The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, is a growing research and education-focused Department, currently consisting of 7 Full-Time Academic Faculty and almost 200 Clinical Faculty across four teaching hospitals. The Department has a fully accredited Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada residency program and a well-developed subspecialty fellowship program. The Department also offers clinical experience to medical students and residents from other training programs during their elective anesthesia rotations. Research groups within the Department are involved in clinical trials that span a wide spectrum of perioperative and pain medicine. The Department's research strengths are in the areas of neuro-immune contributions to chronic pain states; the neurobiology of pain; prenatal iron deficiency; mechanisms of myocardial protection and ischemia-reperfusion injury; nutritional support and immunometabolism; chronic post-surgical pain and persistent opioid use; psychological interventions and pediatric chronic pain; regional anesthesia and perioperative outcomes.

The City of Edmonton, with a growing and diverse population of ~ 1.2 million, is the cosmopolitan capital of Alberta known as “The City of Festivals”. With an abundance of services, a beautiful river valley, world-class entertainment options, a multitude of community activities and attractive and financially reasonable living accommodations, our energetic city has something for everyone. Recreational and leisure opportunities in the Canadian Rockies are a short distance away. For further details about our vibrant city, please visit www.edmonton.ca 

Details about the University of Alberta, the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine can be found on the Faculty’s Home Page at www.med.ualberta.ca. Details about Alberta Health Services can be found at www.albertahealthservices.ca 

The successful applicant will be expected to mentor and teach medical students, residents and fellows, in addition to supervising summer and elective research students. The role involves participation in clinical care, teaching, research, and quality improvement. Expectations include knowledge dissemination and research impact, reviewed annually with the Chair and the Dean of the Faculty. The successful candidate will be recognized internationally through scholarly accomplishment in research and teaching. Preference will be given to individuals with administrative and leadership experience in an academic setting.

The successful candidate will be a physician (MD), with FRCPC or equivalent in anesthesiology or be eligible for FRCPC application and will also be eligible for licensure with College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA). The ideal candidate will have received advanced training in educational scholarship and will have a strong record of scholarship in preoperative optimization and perioperative medicine. 

We recognize the diversity within the anesthesiology community, both with respect to applicants and the research they conduct. We value this diversity and encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis), members of visible minorities (racialized persons), persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Application Instructions

Interested applicants are invited to apply online by submitting a cover letter, their curriculum vitae, teaching statement, and the names and contact information of three referees, one of whom must be the current supervisor or the most recent supervisor (kindly submit all documents as one single PDF). The cover letter should outline the applicant physician’s vision for an AMHSP position in the key pillars of clinical service, education, administration/leadership, and, if desired, research.