The clinical professor will be appointed at the Department of Regional Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, SDU. The position will be within Urology and focus areas could include robot-assisted surgery and benign as well as malignant areas in Urology. Trans-sectional research and collaboration will be expected.
The clinical professor will be responsible for developing diagnostic strategies and optimization of treatment before, during and after hospitalization, and, furthermore, be responsible for developing new strategies for collaboration between different local and regional sectors involving citizens with acute and chronic urological diseases.
The clinical professor will be expected to initiate and increase research activity and to expand collaboration with other researchers at hospitals both inside the region of Southern Denmark and nationally and internationally. Moreover, the successful candidate must maintain and develop national and international contacts and secure funding. Profiling this research area in the public eye will be an important task.
The clinical professor will be responsible for teaching pre- and postgraduate medical students and other healthcare professionals as well as mentoring post-docs, PhD-students, and undergraduate students.
The clinician will be appointed as consultant at the Department of Urology at the Hospital of South West Jutland and at the Department of Urology, Odense University Hospital (OUH), respectively. The consultant must fulfil the requirements and responsibilities of a consultant in a department of Urology receiving and treating a wide variety of patients with urological disorders.
The applicant must have a PhD-degree or equivalent and must be qualified as a specialist in Urology. Additionally, the applicant must have substantial skills in both clinical aspects and research within the field of Urology. The preferred candidate has demonstrated skills and scientific achievements within this area, the ability to motivate, supervise and has documented research management skills, good collaborations abilities and visions of how to further strengthen Research Unit of Urology. Danish is not required initially however, must be mastered within the first two years of employment.
The University of Southern Denmark welcomed the first students onto the campus in Odense in September 1966, and things have been developing by leaps and bounds ever since. We now have five faculties with more than 32,000 students, almost 20% of whom are from abroad, and more than 4,000 employees distributed across our main campus in Odense and regional campuses in Slagelse, Kolding, Esbjerg and Sønderborg. Several international studies document that we conduct world-class research and are one of the top fifty young universities in the world.