Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice President for Psychiatric Services,
Johns Hopkins University
Application
Details
Posted: 05-Jun-26
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Type: Full-time
Salary: 300,000.00 - 350,000.00
Internal Number: A-183698-11
General Description
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine seeks candidates for the position of Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Johns Hopkins School Medicine has consistently been among the top medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding. The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks among the best in the country for its exceptional care for complex cases.
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a distinguished teaching, research and clinical faculty, with over $50 million in extramural research funding and many outstanding clinicians who are national and international leaders in their respective subspecialty areas. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division includes 69 faculty members, a 15-bed inpatient unit and a day hospital unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and outpatient clinics located at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.
The Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division is the leader of all aspects of the Division's enterprise, serving as the spokesperson for the faculty, and represents the Division in interactions with the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospitals, and the School of Medicine, and with practitioners in the region, and nationally. Responsibilities include faculty recruitment and appointments; educational, clinical and research programs; fiscal planning and management; and short- and long-term strategic planning.
The candidate will also serve as Vice President for Psychiatric Services at Kennedy Krieger Institute, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. Kennedy Krieger's primary location is adjacent to the Hopkins campus in East Baltimore and has multiple sites both in and outside of Baltimore City. Kennedy Krieger's mission is focused primarily on children with disorders of the developing nervous system, including those with intellectual disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, the sequelae of trauma, rare neurogenetic diseases, and others. Clinical care and research are conducted in multiple venues including Developmental Behavioral Health, Behavioral Psychology, Center for Neuropsychology and Psychology Assessment, the Neurobehavioral Unit (both inpatient and outpatient), the Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, the inpatient Pediatric Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Unit, the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, and the Kennedy Krieger School Programs (a K-12 system serving publicly funded students).
Qualifications
Candidates must have previous records consistent with appointment as a tenured Professor of Psychiatry. This includes an MD degree or equivalent, an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, teaching, and service, eligibility for licensure in Maryland; and certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The successful candidate should have the demonstrated capacity to foster an environment in which excellence in teaching, research and scholarship flourish, as well as experience in and a commitment to developing and leading clinical programs. Candidates should have a record of innovative and effective administrative and fiscal leadership, national stature in academic psychiatry, a record of excellent interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience promoting positive interactions with students, staff and faculty. Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. All applicants who share this goal are encouraged to apply.
Application Instructions
Contact Info for Heads of Search Committee: Constantine (Kostas) Lyketsos, MD, MHS, Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor and Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for Johns Hopkins Bayview, kostas@jhmi.edu; Karen Swartz, MD, Myra S. Meyer Professor in Mood Disorders and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins, kswartz@jhmi.edu; Coordinator: Jamie Elswick, jelswick@jhmi.edu
Salary Range
The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.
Total Rewards
Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Johns Hopkins University is committed to equal opportunity for its faculty, staff, and students. To that end, the university does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or other legally protected characteristic. The university is committed to providing qualified individuals access to all academic and employment programs, benefits and activities on the basis of demonstrated ability, performance and merit without regard to personal factors that are irrelevant to the program involved.
Pre-Employment Information
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Background Checks
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check including education verification.
Johns Hopkins University strongly encourages, but no longer requires, at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine does not apply to positions located in the State of Florida. We still require all faculty, staff, and students to receive the seasonal flu vaccine. Exceptions to the COVID and flu vaccine requirements may be provided to individuals for religious beliefs or medical reasons. Requests for an exception must be submitted to the JHU vaccination registry. This change does not apply to the School of Medicine (SOM). SOM hires must be fully vaccinated with an FDA COVID-19 vaccination and provide proof of vaccination status. For additional information, applicants for SOM positions should visit https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/ and all other JHU applicants should visit https://covidinfo.jhu.edu/health-safety/covid-vaccination-information/.
The following additional vaccine requirements may apply, depending upon your campus. Please contact the hiring department for more information. The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) was founded in 1876 as the nation's first research university, dedicated to bringing the benefits of discovery to the world. JHU is the largest private employer in Baltimore and Maryland, making a large economic impact in the city and state. We enroll more than 30,000 full- and part-time students across ten academic divisions, offering in-person and remote learning in over 400 programs. Not only are we located in Baltimore, but we also have a presence in Washington, D.C.