The Department provides appointments to faculty who are promising or established investigators and scientists, and who agree to act as faculty for its courses, mentors for its trainees, members of its committees, and collaborators and consultants in multidisciplinary clinical research.  The faculty consists of three major groups, which interact closely for the benefit of the clinical research community:

• Academic disciplines common to all clinical research.  The Department is the home of 9 academic units relevant to all clinical research: clinical research design, biostatistics, epidemiology, health services research, behavioral science, clinical pharmacology, biomedical informatics, community outreach, and research ethics.
• Promising or established clinical investigators representing a broad range of clinical departments.  The clinical investigators of the Department serve as:  Faculty for its courses, seminars, and workshops; members of its committees; mentors to its trainees and scholars; and collaborators and consultants in multidisciplinary clinical research.  However, to ensure access to patients and referring physicians and to collaborators within their fields, such faculty will have their primary appointment in their clinical departments.  The clinical investigators in the Department represent all of the 20 clinical departments at UT Southwestern.
• Promising or established laboratory-based scientists representing a broad range of basic science departments who are interested in translational research and have agreed to train young individuals who are committed to clinical research.  A large and diverse number of outstanding basic scientists within the medical school have agreed to join the Department in order to act as faculty for its courses, seminars and workshops, serve on its committees, provide mentoring to its clinical research trainees and scholars, and act as collaborators and consultants to promote translational research.

The authority of the Department of Clinical Sciences to appoint and promote faculty provides an effective mechanism by which UT Southwestern recognizes the achievements of clinical scientists, regardless of their discipline or field of medicine. In addition, faculty with appointments in the Department (and their trainees) have facilitated access to key core resources and facilities.

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