Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE)

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) in the Stanford University School of Medicine, seeks a new Director. The successful candidate will be a recognized leader in the Bioethics community with a deep understanding of healthcare and biomedicine's ethical, legal, and social aspects. The successful candidate will maintain the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics’ premier status by advancing its mission to provide comprehensive humanistic and social scientific instruction to learners, to conduct novel and meaningful research, and to offer consultation and service in bioethics as it relates to human, animal, and environmental health.

The major criterion for the Center Director position is appointment in the University Medical Line (UML), University Tenure Line (UTL), or Non-Tenure Lines (NTLR/NTLT), and evidence of high performance as a leader, researcher, and consultant in bioethics. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree(s); substantial background and experience in administrative leadership, research, and teaching, including training programs for the full continuum of bioethics learners; and a strong academic background. 

They will be responsible for the supervision and development of clinical services, education, and research activities for members of the Center across Stanford University, the Stanford School of Medicine, the Stanford Health Care system, including Stanford Hospital, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCHS), and their partner sites.  The Director will oversee the center's operations, including research, education, and policy development. The SCBE Director provides leadership and oversight for healthcare ethics consultation, policy development, organizational ethics quality activities, and ethics education.

The start date is negotiable, but it would be desirable for the successful candidate to start by late Summer 2023. The successful candidate should have a demonstrated track record of scholarship and the promise to continue conductinghigh-quality research.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and support innovative empirical bioethics research in the core areas of genomics, end-of-life care, cultural diversity, neuroscience, the changing healthcare marketplace, and technology development

• Provide leadership in bioethics education for students and faculty in medicine, the Humanities and Sciences, and the professional schools, at Stanford University and nationally

• Serve as co-chair or core member of the Stanford Hospital Ethics Committee and Lucile Packard Ethics Committee by providing guidance and leadership to the committee pertaining to healthcare ethics consultation, preventive ethics, policy formulation and providing continuing professional ethics education to committee members.

• Apply ethical reasoning to moral issues in medicine, including basic science, translational biomedical research, patient care, and the development of medical technology

• Contribute to national and international policy discussions to formulate effective responses to contemporary bioethical issues

• Advance and preserve a compassionate and humanistic perspective on the practice of medicine, in order to improve health care for adults and children

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the University’s research, teaching and clinical missions.

The Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, and Stanford University value faculty who are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Candidates may optionally include as part of their research or teaching statement a brief discussion of how their work will further these ideals.

Please submit a curriculum vitae and a brief statement of clinical and research interests including an optional diversity statement to: [email protected]