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The Department of Radiology of the University of Minnesota Medical School is seeking a Division Director for Nuclear Medicine Division at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor (full-time, academic or clinician track).  This position is a key member of the Department’s leadership team, as well as a leader in the health system’s imaging service.  This position also leads the Radio-Theranostics service and research.

Background Requirements

• Have an MD or DO degree
• Eligible for medical licensure in the State of Minnesota.

• Prior leadership, mentoring and team building experience
• Strong clinical background with demonstrated excellence in teaching and clinical excellence in nuclear medicine
• Proven record of research, including clinical trials and/or high-impact peer-reviewed publications
• ABR-DR and NR required and ABNM desirable.
• Experience with Radiation Safety Subcommittee, RDRC, new drug development, NRC desired

Role Description

• Develop goals and objectives for the Nuclear Medicine Division
• Lead recruitment of academic radiologists for the Division
• Work with faculty to advance the missions of the Department and grow internal and external collaborations
• Mentor and develop faculty in education, research and clinical care, increasing academic productivity and fostering progress toward promotion
• Monitor and ensure success of fellowship program and residents
• Partner with MHealth Fairview staff to ensure optimization of clinical practice including quality, standardization, peer review, productivity, performance improvement and clinical scheduling
• Ensure satisfaction of referring physicians and service lines, oversee multidisciplinary care conferences
• Develop research links to the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) and the Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR)

The Nuclear Medicine Division

The Nuclear Medicine Division has four core academic radiology faculty positions, one fellow and one nuclear medicine physicist.  The Nuclear Medicine Division is the academically focused division within mHealth Fairview Health System which oversees nuclear medicine clinical protocols,  development and research.  The division developed the MHealth Fairview Radio-Theranostics Center offering advanced therapeutics in a dedicated facility, first of its kind in Minnesota. There are 4 Siemens 64 SlicePET/CT scanners including Siemens Vision 600 Digital scanner. There are 3 Siemens Spect/CT scanners (6 and 16 slice ct), 2 Siemens Dual Head scanners,  and a PetNet Cyclotron at CCIR for Ammonia Cardiac Imaging. UMN is one of the national Cardiac Sarcoid centers and performs cardiac FDG and Ammonia studies. Nuclear Medicine and the Radio-Theranostic Center is partnering with Oncology and numerous vendors for advanced trials in new diagnostic and therapeutic trials providing opportunities for Nuclear Medicine physician participation.

The Department of Radiology

The Department of Radiology has over 40 academic radiologists, 3 medical physicists and 26 MR research faculty, and is #16 in Blue Ridge NIH ranking.  The Department has several highly regarded ACGME education programs with over 45 residents and 10 fellows.  The Department leads the practice of radiology across MHealth Fairview, a large academic and community health system in the Twin Cities Metro Area comprising 8 hospitals and over 50 ambulatory clinics.  The Department is subspecialized into seven divisions: Breast Imaging, Musculoskeletal Imaging, Interventional Radiology, Neuroradiology, Nuclear Medicine, Pediatric Radiology and Thoraco-Abdominal Imaging. https://www.med.umn.edu/radiology.

Center for Magnetic Resonance Research – CMRR

As a key part of the Department of Radiology, the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research is an internationally renowned center for ultrahigh field MRI (7 Tesla and above) with some of the most advanced MR 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla instrumentation in the world, and one of a kind 10.5 Tesla whole body scanner.   CMRR focuses on development of unique magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy methodologies and instrumentation for the acquisition of structural, functional, and biochemical information non-invasively in humans, and utilizing this capability to investigate organ function in health and disease. 

CMRR focuses on the significant advantages of extracting biomedical information using high and ultrahigh magnetic fields, and developing methodological and engineering solutions to challenges encountered by working at high frequencies in the human body, including the abdomen, corresponding to such high field strengths.

CMRR engages unique expertise in imaging physics, engineering, and signal processing, amplifying the contributions of each of these groups of scientists to conduct basic and clinical biomedical research. https://www.cmrr.umn.edu/

About University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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