Assistant Professor in Addiction Psychiatry at the Philadelphia VAMC - Clinician Educator Track

Assistant Professor in Addiction Psychiatry at the PhiladelphiaVAMC - Clinician Educator Track

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Open Date: Sep 04, 2026

Deadline: Sep 04, 2028 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

The Philadelphia VA Medical Center (PVAMC) and the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track. Expertise is required in the specific area of addiction genetics, chronic pain, structural equation modeling and similar multivariate statistics. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree. Psychology licensure is required.

Teaching responsibilities may include providing lectures to psychiatric residents and research mentoring to undergraduate, medical and graduate students.

Clinical responsibilities may include providing clinical care at the Philadelphia VAMC to patients with substance use disorders.

Research or scholarship responsibilities may include building an independent research program in the genetics of substance use, pain traits, a comorbid psychiatric condition.

Demonstrated success in obtaining extramural research funding is preferred.

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