The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a member of the Texas A&M University, has established the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems (CRHTS). Jointly with the Texas A&M College of Engineering, applications are being accepted for a full-time, tenured, or tenure-track, open-rank position with a 9-month academic appointment, and the possibility of an additional summer appointment contingent upon need and availability of funds, beginning fall of 2022. The Center Director invites applications for multidisciplinary tenured/tenure track faculty at the assistant, associate, and full professor ranks; in the area of remote health, including hand-held body fluid diagnostic and sensing devices, flexible & wearable electronics for health and fitness, embedded biomedical devices, processes & systems, and biomedical health and fitness domain expertise. The successful applicant will be required to teach; advise and mentor graduate students; develop an independent, externally funded research program; participate in all aspects of the Center’s and their home department’s activities, and serve the profession. Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
The Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems has a vision of enabling healthy living by shifting the landscape from not only disease management but disease prevention. The Center’s mission is to identify and overcome the unmet patient and health care provider needs by developing breakthrough health care devices, technologies, and delivery systems. Towards this goal, the center serves as a focal point to facilitate significant advances in the remote health care field through next-generation remote medical delivery systems, translational research in biomedical devices, and the development of innovative algorithms and test and measurement systems. The Center recently lead a consortium of industry, government partners, and universities that has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP), with the goal of addressing the grand challenge of overcoming the human and economic burden of diabetes and heart disease in underserved communities. Researchers at the center would be encouraged to be involved with PATHS-UP and to develop innovative prototype and information systems, work with state and federal and regulatory agencies, the medical community, and the medical device industry in an effort to further the design, development, testing, and deployment of those systems.