Metabolic Geneticist Opportunity

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) & Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)

Position Location: UH Cleveland, Ohio

Position Type: Full-time Physician

Specialty: Genetics

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is seeking a medical biochemical genetics physician or physician/scientist (full or part-time applicants will both be considered). This position will support growth in medical biochemical genetics and translational genetics and genomics in clinical practice at the major teaching affiliate of the CWRU School of Medicine (SOM). Clinical and metabolic genetic services are provided by the Center for Human Genetics (CHG) throughout the University Hospitals system, across the full spectrum of age and conditions. Clinical activities can be adapted to meet the clinical and/or research interests of the successful applicant and will include outpatient metabolism clinics as well as inpatient/ emergency on-call coverage for pediatric and adult patients with general genetic disorders as well as inborn errors of metabolism.

Inpatient/emergency call is currently shared among 8 geneticists in our group, leading to on call responsibilities occurring 3-4 days per month (some remote back up call service is divided among the medical biochemical geneticists in our group for those who are not boarded in biochemical genetics). Strengths of our program include clinical and research opportunities in general genetics (8 board certified clinical geneticists) and biochemical genetics (3 board certified biochemical geneticists), neurogenetics (2 board certified neurogeneticists), prenatal genetics, cancer genetics and bioethics. We have 11 genetic counselors, 1 metabolic dieticians and a full time metabolic nurse among additional support from medical assistants, genetic counseling assistants, etc.

The CHG is part of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the SOM that includes PhD researchers, so there are ample opportunities for research collaborations. There are many teaching opportunities in our SOM, clinical genetics residency program, medical biochemical genetics fellowship program, genetic counseling program, and several additional graduate school programs. UHCMC and CWRU are research sites for the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium and the Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium as well as sites for several other industry-sponsored clinical trials and registries in a broad range of metabolic disorders (including OTC gene therapy and upcoming PKU gene therapy trials among other intervention focused trials). Support for the clinical research studies is provided by two full time research assistants (with plans to add a third) and a full time regulatory specialist. Other opportunities for clinical, translational and basic science research abound.

The successful candidate will find options available to create the ideal mix in this position. Primary appointment (assistant, associate or full professor) will be in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences (Zhenghe Wang, PhD), with hospital appointment in CHG through UHCMC.