Lecturer or Assistant / Associate / Full Professor - Academic Gastroenterologist

Date Posted: 05/07/2025
Closing Date: 06/11/2025, 11:59PM ET
Req ID: 42839
Job Category: Faculty - Clinical
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Medicine
Hospital Affiliation: Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael's
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

The Department of Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital, in conjunction with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, is seeking a qualified full-time academic gastroenterologist to fill a fulltime GI hospitalist position. The successful candidate must be eligible for a full-time clinical academic appointment at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor at the University of Toronto. The candidate will have an academic position description of Clinician-Teacher (CT), Clinician-Educator (CE) or Clinician in Quality and Innovation (CQI). The expected start date of the position is October 1, 2025, or shortly thereafter.

The successful candidate will hold an MD degree and should have, or be eligible for, certification in Gastroenterology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). The successful candidate will also have previous experience as a GI hospitalist working with inpatients with complex GI disorders.   This position will run the inpatient GI ward at St. Michael’s hospital and collaborate in research and quality improvement programs. The successful candidate will be fully engaged in Gastroenterology educational programs and learner supervision at all levels, including supervision of fellowship trainees in Gastroenterology, and trainees in the Hospitalist programs at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto and will be prepared to take on a leadership role in education.   For details on the University of Toronto academic clinical faculty requirements for advanced training and demonstrated scholarship for the job descriptions of CT, CE and CQI, please see Table 2 at https://deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/clinical-faculty-academic-appointments#Clinicalfacultyapptcategories

The successful candidate will report to the Head, Division of Gastroenterology at St. Michael’s Hospital. The Division of Gastroenterology, composed of eight full time academic gastroenterologists, has an international reputation in therapeutic endoscopy, clinical research, education and quality improvement.  

Applications will be accepted until June 11, 2025. Should you be interested in this opportunity, please forward a one-page statement of interest, a curriculum vitae and the names and contact information of four referees, two who are internal to your current organization, and two external, to:

Dr. Natalie Wong, Interim Physician-in-Chief
c/o Jessica Comilang, Administrative Assistant
St. Michael's Hospital 
30 Bond Street, Room 2-468 Bond Wing 
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8
Email: Jessica.Comilang@unityhealth.to

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St. Michael’s Hospital is part of Unity Health Toronto, comprised of Providence, St. Joseph’s and St. Michael’s Healthcare. Unity Health Toronto is one of Canada’s largest Catholic healthcare networks serving patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care, tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care, while investing in world-class research and education. St. Michael’s Hospital is a teaching and research hospital in downtown Toronto. Affectionately known as the Urban Angel, St. Michael’s is renowned for providing exceptional patient care. As downtown Toronto’s adult trauma centre, the hospital is a hub for neurosurgery, complex cardiac and cardiovascular care, diabetes and osteoporosis care, minimally invasive surgery and care of the homeless and disadvantaged. Fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and home to the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s provides outstanding medical education to health-care professionals in 29 academic disciplines.

For more information about St. Michael’s hospital, please visit https://unityhealth.to/locations/st-michaels-hospital/

For information about the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, please visit our website at http://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca. The Department of Medicine’s academic position descriptions can be viewed on this webpage: http://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/academic-position-descriptions#AcademicPositionDescriptions.