Academic Anesthesiology Faculty Opportunities

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Anesthesiology is seeking fellowship trained anesthesiologists across various specialties, i.e. pediatric, critical care, regional, pain to fill assistant and associate professor positions.  The department is welcoming a new Chairman who is very enthusiastic about rebuilding and growing the department.  Excellent opportunities for growth/advancement and career development.  Competitive base salary and exceptional state benefits package.  Lubbock is a family friendly community offering a mild climate and low cost of living.  Geographically located on the South Plains of Texas, Lubbock is conveniently located to major metropolitan cities like Dallas and Houston as well as New Mexico and Colorado.  

Qualified applicants should submit inquiries/CVs to Cindy Antoniello, Director of Faculty Recruitment and Referral Development at cindy.antoniello@ttuhsc.edu.  Interested applicants are encouraged to view TTUHSC Recruitment website www.ttuhsc.edu/som/recruiting/ to learn more about the school, its programs and the Lubbock community.  The school enjoys an excellent relationship with its primary teaching hospital, UMC Health System.  UMC maintains the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center/Level 1 Burn Unit.  

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Through research, education and patient care, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center aims to promote a greater health environment for Lubbock and beyond.  We strive to decrease health disparities in minority and rural populations and improve the health of the community through collaborations with area hospitals and health centers. The efforts of our faculty, staff and students influence the community, state, nation and world, and our vision of excellence lights the path for the future in the rapidly growing world of health care. Discover how we are making a difference.

The four campuses operate a total of 34 clinical departmental units and numerous clinical services and education programs which were previously unavailable in the West Texas region.  In more than 35 years of educational training, the School of Medicine has graduated more than 3,000 physicians.  During the past 10 years, 58 percent of those graduates have remained in Texas to complete residency training and an average of 21 percent of the School of Medicine graduates have remained at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for their residency training.

In the past five years, an average of 46 percent of graduates have chosen to enter primary care specialties – family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics.

On each of the four campuses, a majority of the graduates who choose to stay in West Texas chose to stay within a 75-mile radius of their campus city.  The four-campus system is fulfilling the original intention of the legislation that created this medical school – training physicians for West Texas.

Three elements form the basis of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine’s mission – teaching physicians, providing top-notch health care for the people of the South Plains and conducting research to unlock continuing medical mysteries. The Health Sciences Center faculty believes balance among these three elements will improve health care for generations of West Texans.

The School of Medicine was founded in May 1969 by the 61st Legislature of Texas to address the urgent need to train more physicians for West Texas. Many counties at that time had no practicing physicians. The original medical school design included campuses in El Paso and Amarillo with the headquarters in Lubbock.

Almost 40 years later, the school continues to grow!  A campus has been added in Odessa and the El Paso campus recently received approval from the State Legislature and a $50 million gift to establish the  first four-year medical school (Paul L. Foster School of Medicine) on the U.S./Mexico border.  Its first class will be admitted in Fall 2009.  The need to train more physicians for West Texas remains at the forefront of our work.
                                         

Lubbock, Texas is located in northwest Texas. Considered to be at the center of the South Plains, the area is located between the Permian Basin to the south and the Texas Panhandle to the north.

 The “West Texas Walk of Fame” features a bigger-than-life sized statue (by sculptor Grant Speed) of  Lubbock’s own Buddy Holly.  Each year musicians, artists, actors and entertainers from Lubbock and surrounding communities are inducted into the Walk of Fame.

The seal of Texas Tech is located at the Broadway and University entrance to campus on Among G. Carter Plaza.  It is made of red granite and stands 12 feet high.  Its symbols are the lamp, which represents “school,” the key for “home,” The book for “church,” and the star for “state.”  Cotton bolls represent the area’s strong cotton industry and the eagle is suggestive of our country.