Connectionists: endowed, tenured chair in Computational Healthcare at Johns Hopkins

[Jason Eisner]

Dear connectionists (post #2 of 2):

ML researchers are welcome candidates for this endowed professorship
in *computational
healthcare*.  Please consider applying.  Or alerting your favorite
distinguished researcher who is using ML on health data.

This is one of 50 new chairs made possible by a recent $350 million gift to
JHU. Some will be ML-related, and I'll separately post the one on
*computational
cognitive science*.  Questions welcome.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship
in *Computational Healthcare*


*Joint Search by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School
of Engineering*

The Johns Hopkins University seeks an internationally recognized leader as
a tenured, endowed Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the emerging area
of *computational healthcare*. We seek an individual whose research agenda
in healthcare and data science will help bring together the University's
Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine through their shared
interests in computational modeling of health data and its applications to
improve health care delivery. This leader will pioneer new directions,
interact with existing collaborative research efforts, and help guide
additional faculty growth in this area. This position is one of 50 new
Bloomberg Distinguished Professors whose mission will be to pursue
transformative strategies to enable Johns Hopkins to lead in the
development of solutions to major societal problems. Bloomberg
Distinguished Professors will enhance significantly the university's
longstanding commitment to research, teaching and service that spans
disciplinary boundaries and Schools.

The explosion of data such as neuroimages, DNA sequences, electronic
medical records, and physiological signals collected from individual and
populations of patients raises the prospect of discovering optimal
approaches to individualized health care. The Hopkins Individualized Health
Initiative (INhealth) is a focus of the University's current capital
campaign. It seeks to bring together strengths in biomedical sciences, data
science, and engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Health
System, and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to:

   - *discover* new computational methods for defining, measuring, and
   communicating each person's unique health state and trajectory;
   - *apply* these methods to produce better health outcomes at more
   affordable costs.

This search in computational healthcare is one of several INHealth-related
searches that will recruit new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors to drive
progress. These professors will also benefit from the University's
strategic initiative in The Science of Learning, and the Whiting School of
Engineering research thrust in Leveraging Data to Knowledge. Two other
INHealth-related searches are underway in the health information sciences
domain (statistical genomics and health informatics).

Bloomberg Distinguished Professors will hold formal tenured appointments in
departments of two or more schools of the University, and will participate
fully in the research, teaching, and service missions of their departments,
including undergraduate and graduate education. The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering are
partners in this computational healthcare search. Supporting departments
include: the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of
Engineering; and the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Emergency
Medicine, Medicine, and Radiology in the School of Medicine. The primary
academic appointment in the Whiting School of Engineering will be in the
Department of Computer Science. The ideal candidate will satisfy the
following criteria: international reputation and major research and
teaching accomplishments in both computing- and health-related fields such
as biomedical informatics, computer science, data-intensive science,
statistics, machine learning, computational modeling; track record of
translating computational approaches into clinical applications within
academic health centers or other health care delivery systems; strong
record of extramural funding.

Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae as a single PDF to Stephanie
Steele, Search Coordinator, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational
Medicine, ssteele at jhu.edu. Applications should be received no later than *April
30, 2014*.  Additional information is available at http://cs.jhu.edu/BDP.

The Johns Hopkins University is committed to enhancing the diversity of its
faculty, strongly encourages applications from women and minorities, and is
an EEO/AA employer.
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