The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine is recruiting for a full-time faculty member with expertise in Interventional Pulmonary Medicine. Duties include, but are not limited to, seeing referrals for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to known or suspected lung cancer, thoracic metastasis, infectious or interstitial diseases of the lung, and pleural diseases. They will be responsible for management of benign and malignant obstructive airway lesions, lung malignancies requiring endoluminal therapies, robotic assisted evaluation of suspicious parenchymal lung lesions, acute and chronic pleural processes, and performance of bedside tracheostomy placement. These duties will be conducted in the inpatient and ambulatory care settings. They will be responsible for teaching pulmonary procedures to fellow trainees in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and subspecialty fellows in Interventional Pulmonary. They will also have opportunities to attend in the Medical Intensive Care Unit with additional related teaching duties. Additionally, the position will include opportunities to conduct clinical research related to cancer diagnostics/therapeutics, pleural diseases, and innovative interventional procedures.

Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree and be BC/BE in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Interventional Pulmonology. Candidates will have completed a minimum of one year of interventional pulmonary fellowship training. Candidates should have experience performing advanced diagnostic and rigid bronchoscopy, robotic assisted navigational bronchoscopy, bedside tracheostomy, thoracic ultrasound, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, tunneled pleural catheter placement, medical thoracoscopy and management of complex pleural processes.

Formal training in clinical research methods or experience in formal GME education is preferred.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.