The Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Division of Infectious Diseases of the University Health Network (UHN) and Sinai Health System (SHS) are seeking to recruit a visionary Infectious Diseases Specialist to lead the UHN – SHS Division of Infectious Diseases, a division of the joint Department of Medicine. The successful candidate must be eligible for a full-time clinical academic appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor at the University of Toronto. This hospital Division Head position is for a 5-year term, renewable once following a successful review. Effective start date of appointment is 1 March 2023, or soon thereafter to be negotiated. UHN, SHS and the University of Toronto are strongly committed to diversity within their communities and especially welcome applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+, persons, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. 

The successful candidate will lead a large academically successful and diverse Infectious Diseases Division. The UHN – SHS division is the one of the 4 hospital-based Infectious Diseases divisions within the University of Toronto Division of Infectious Diseases. The UHN-SHS division has 26 full time staff physicians across SHS and UHN who provide inpatient and outpatient Infectious Diseases care, leading diverse and comprehensive tertiary subspecialty programs. The clinical division provides care across 5 separate sites (UHN-Toronto Western Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital as primary sites with consultation provided to UHN – Toronto General Hospital, UHN – Princess Margaret Hospital and UHN – Toronto Rehabilitation Hospital). UHN and SHS are situated on land that for thousands of years, has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Toronto is Canada’s largest city, and a center for education, healthcare, business, finance, technology, entertainment and culture.