Faculty Position: Small Animal
Instrumentation Physics
Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine / Molecular Imaging
Section, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
The Department of
Radiology and the Stanford Lucas Center for Imaging is recruiting for a
scientist to assume responsibility for small animal instrumentation physics
with an emphasis on PET/SPECT/CT. The appointment is at the Assistant or
Associate Professor level, depending on academic qualifications and previous
experience in the field. Level of appointment and salary are negotiable and
will be commensurate with experience.
The successful candidate will oversee the design and operation of a new
imaging facility that will house state-of-the-art small animal PET and x-ray
micro-tomography scanners, digital whole body autoradiography and other
small animal imaging modalities. The facility will be used by many
different laboratories on the Stanford campus for in vivo imaging studies in
cancer, the nervous system, immune and cardiovascular system as well as
imaging of gene expression. The effort is coupled to the Bio-X program,
which merges the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Humanities/Sciences, (http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/biox/index.html)
and the new department of bioengineering that is jointly supported by the
Schools of Engineering and Medicine. The mission of the Bioengineering
Department spans the entire breadth of the interface between engineering and
the life sciences, and imaging will be an important component of the new
department.
The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the management
of the facility and its personnel and will be responsible for maintaining
high standards of data collection, image reconstruction and data analysis.
To achieve this, it is expected that they lead a multidisciplinary team
that will provide support for the instrumentation and software as well as
develop and introduce new software and hardware tools and technologies into
the facility, that will improve the accuracy, quality or efficiency of data
collection, image reconstruction, image registration, visualization and data
analysis.
Furthermore, the candidate will be expected to organize and teach graduate
level courses in imaging technology and supervise graduate students in
research leading to the Ph.D. degree. The successful candidate will also be
expected to attract extramural funding for independent research and foster
collaborations with other institutes and industrial partners that will lead
to further development of in-vivo imaging technology with PET, CT and
combined modality imaging systems. He is expected to work in close
collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of molecular and cell
biologists, chemists and other biological scientists to research that will
lead to new approaches for diagnostics and management of disease in human
patients.
The successful candidate should have a degree in medical physics biomedical
engineering or related field. Direct experience and demonstrated previous
track record in imaging, specifically in data acquisition, instrumentation,
data correction, quantification, image reconstruction and image analysis is
required. The candidate must also possess excellent computer skills. Good
communication skills are essential and prior management experience is
important. Experience in nuclear medicine is preferred.
Stanford University is committed to increasing representation of women and
members of minority groups on its faculty and particularly encourages
applications from such candidates.
To apply, please send your CV, the names of three referees and a brief
statement of why you believe you are the right candidate for this position,
to: Michael Moseley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Chairman of
Search Committee, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive,
Stanford, CA 94305-5488.