Working at U of T – Assistant/Associate Professor

Job Description:

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, SickKids is a world-renowned state of the art quaternary paediatric hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. The hospital is committed to ongoing excellence in clinical care, research, learning and development, quality, and safety, in addition to ensuring a caring and supportive work environment that enables family centred care. The Division of Urology has 3 full-time and 1 part-time paediatric urologists, a medical urologist, 2 full-time nurse practitioners and 1 registered nurse. Our division provides care for neonates, children, and adolescents with a wide range of urological conditions including congenital abnormalities of the kidneys and urinary tract, hypospadias, undescended testicles, and urolithiasis, but also rare conditions with high levels of complexity such as bladder exstrophy, cloacal anomalies, uro-oncology, disorders of sexual differentiation and renal transplantation (over 20 transplants per year). Approximately 90% of our patients come from the Great Toronto Area, serving a highly diverse and multicultural community of 6.9 million people (1.7 million under 19), while the remaining 10% consists of patients from Ontario, the rest of Canada and abroad.

Job Responsibilities:

• Pediatric Urology is an everchanging specialty with evolving needs. In keeping with SickKids’ history of innovation and advancing pediatric health, our division is seeking a pediatric urologist with focused interest on fertility preservation and pediatric stone disease.
• The successful candidate is expected to provide the highest quality of care in the management of conditions that can adversely impact fertility in children and adolescents, as well as provide comprehensive care for pediatric patients with urolithiasis.
• The candidate is also expected to lead the Fertility Preservation Program with our partner institutions and multidisciplinary team.
• The candidate is also expected to develop and advance their individual research interests while also taking initiative to drive a collective research endeavor such as prospective outcomes research and continue to build upon our culture of quality and safety.
• In addition, an interest and experience in clinical informatics will be an asset to further the Urology Division’s efforts to harness the full potential of our EPIC electronic medical records data at SickKids.

Job Requirements:

• The successful candidate should also demonstrate exceptional skills that fulfill the Can MEDS framework (Medical Expert, Communicator, Collaborator, Leader, Health Advocate and Scholar), have a proven record of accomplishment in research, have an interest in innovation and commit to ensuring top quality education for fellows, residents, medical students and interprofessional trainees.
• The successful candidate must hold an MD degree, have sub-specialty training in pediatric urology awarded by an accredited training program, have additional training in adolescent and adult reconstructive urology, be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and fulfill the requirements for an academic appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, University of Toronto.
• Candidates must obtain an appropriate work visa, if applicable.
• The candidate must be proficient in English.

Job Details:

Company: University of Toronto

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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