The Opportunity for the Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor of Genetic Counseling at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah The Kenneth Graff Building Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor of Genetic Counseling Executive Search are minorities. Only 16.3 percent of the students are 25 years old and older. DSU has been expanding both its academic programs and facilities in recent years and is on the forefront of technology, health education, and business, incorporating cutting-edge learning practices. With more than 150 academic programs, the University currently offers 11 associate degrees, 45 bachelor’s degrees, and 4 master’s degrees through its 6 academic colleges: Education; Health Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Engineering, and Technology; The Health Sciences Building Business and Communication; and Arts. Dixie State University, a comprehensive public university, has launched The new Master of Science in Genetic a national search for the Program Director of Genetic Counseling. The Counseling Program will be part of the Department of Healthcare Diagnostics University is seeking an energetic and collegial faculty member with the and Therapeutics of the College of desire and ability to help create one of the premiere Master’s degree Health Sciences. DSU’s Health Sciences programs in Genetic Counseling in the nation. The Program Director will hold programs are taught by dedicated the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor, tenure-track. The preference is for and supportive faculty in primarily this appointment to begin no later than January 2020. small-class learning environments. The results have been excellent The Opportunity DSU is strongly committed to the certification/licensure exam pass rates academic success of students, including as well as outstanding graduation Dixie State University is a public, those of color, of diverse sexual rates. Graduates are employed upon open-enrollment institution committed orientation and gender expressions, program completion. to student access, affordability, and with disabilities, and with diverse success. Established in 1911 as a The College is housed in DSU’s new socio-economic backgrounds, as well community college and in 2013 as 78,519 square-foot, $15.7 million Health as veterans and students who are first a state university, DSU is located in Sciences Building. The beautiful state- generation to attend college. picturesque southwestern Utah with its of-the-art center is located adjacent red rocks, desert climate, and over 300 The University enrolls nearly 10,000 to the Intermountain Healthcare Dixie days of sunshine annually. students, with 39 percent being first- Regional Medical Center (DRMC), generation college students. Over which is part of Intermountain Dedicated to rigorous learning and 82 percent of the students are Utah Healthcare, the largest healthcare the enrichment of the professional residents, and more than 21 percent provider in the Intermountain West. and personal lives of its students and community by providing opportunities that engage the unique Southern Utah What is “active learning. active life.” environment and resources, DSU has an instructional approach of “active “active learning. active life.” encourages the Dixie State University community to not learning. active life.” passively exist but to actively live, learn, and connect with others. Active learning encourages students to take responsibility for their education by participating in the Students receive personalized and learning process in and out of the classroom to understand why things work, not just engaged learning experiences under that they do. It invites them to be lifelong learners who shatter their comfort zones the direction of skilled and devoted and embrace the future. Simultaneously, active living empowers students to become faculty and staff members. They are fully involved in their communities and blaze trails that improve the lives of others. taught the importance of community It unlocks recreational opportunities around them and enables them to be innovative through experiential, civic, and service thinkers and doers. learning within the local community. Dixie State University - in southwestern Utah Dixie.edu | page 2 Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor of Genetic Counseling Executive Search Dixie State University Core Themes • Learning: Preparing knowledgeable and competent learners, through effective, active-learning practices in a student-centered environment. • Engagement: Maintaining active involvement and positive collaboration with the Southern The Genetic Counseling program DSU student internship programs at Utah region to strengthen cultural, will benefit from this close proximity the genomics laboratories economic, and civic life. to DRMC. DSU and Intermountain DSU’s Genetic Counseling students • Opportunity: Valuing inclusion, Precision Genomics, which is a will have opportunities for clinical access, diversity, and equity. service of Intermountain Healthcare, rotations throughout the Intermountain have partnered to help lead the way Healthcare system. towards biotech and medical genomics Values pathways for the surrounding The Program Director of Genetic • Student-centered success: communities. Counseling is an exceptional providing an affordable education opportunity to be a part of a fast- In addition to the Graduate Genetic with experiences that develop the growing health sciences program while Counseling program, the two academic, professional, and personal preparing students in best practices for organizations collaborate in several lives of all students. counseling patients and clients in this ways: important field of healthcare. • Academic excellence: stimulating learning and critical • Undergraduate bioinformatics The Position thinking through rigor, student program Reporting to Dean Eliezer Bermudez empowerment, and practical • Stanford Medicine/Precision application. of the College of Health Sciences, Genomics/DSU summer student the Program Director will be a full- • Equity and Inclusion: creating a internship program time (11-month) tenure-track faculty community of diverse individuals, • Intermountain Healthcare/DSU pre- position. This dynamic educator and ideas, and beliefs; practicing open medicine program director will have both a vision for discourse and collaboration. • Intermountain Precision Genomics/ inter-professional collaboration and a • Accountability: working with honesty, transparency, and respect for others while holding ourselves Eliezer Bermudez, Ph.D. accountable for our actions. Dean and Professor, College of Health Sciences • Service leadership: emphasizing Dr. Eliezer (Eli) Bermudez has served as Dean of DSU’s College civic, economic, and cultural of Health Sciences since July 2017. He joined Dixie State after a engagement with the community. distinguished career at Indiana State University. • Creative and innovation: problem At ISU, Dr. Bermudez served as the Interim Dean of the College solving in learning, teaching, of Health and Human Services. He also was a tenured Professor fostering new ways of thinking, and and Department Chair of the Applied Health Sciences with more researching. than 22 years of academic service. His scholarship includes peer- • Local and global resources: reviewed publications in scientific journals, numerous professional presentations, incorporating a variety of resources and grants, all in the discipline of environmental health. into the educational experience with Dr. Bermudez earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Master of Science a special emphasis on the unique degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico. He holds a local resources. doctorate in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dixie State University - in southwestern Utah Dixie.edu | page 3 Program Director and Assistant/Associate Professor of Genetic Counseling Executive Search events and committee meetings, holding regular office hours, and advising students Qualifications & Characteristics Candidate must have a master’s degree in Genetic Counseling. A doctorate degree is preferred. Other requirements include: • Certification in genetic counseling by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) or American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMG) • At least five years of experience as a genetic counselor DSU’s O. C. Tanner Amphitheater is located in Springdale, Utah. • Knowledge of and experience in genetic counseling, teaching, desire to embrace the DSU core theme • Coordinate, monitor, evaluate, clinical supervision, and other of “active learning. active life.” and supervise all aspects of clinical related subjects This administrative faculty member training/field work, either directly or In compliance with federal law, all will be responsible for the design, through department collaboration persons hired will be required to organization, coordination, • Collaborate with other Program verify identity and eligibility to work administration, planning, development, Directors in all activities that directly in the United States and to complete and continual review of the Genetic relate to the Genetics Counseling the required employment eligibility Counseling program This will include program verification form upon hire. the curriculum, clinical, and research • Facilitate long-term planning components: to ensure program fiscal and Employment is contingent upon Duties and Responsibilities educational stability