Henry Ford Health
Take the Next Step in your Behavioral Neurology Career!
The Division Head of Behavioral Neurology will provide leadership for clinical and research programs focused on aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. This role involves direct patient care, overseeing a Memory Clinic team, expanding clinical trials, and engaging in educational activities with medical students and residents.
Key Responsibilities
- • Assume the Paul C. Alandt Endowed Chair of Behavioral Neurology, supporting efforts to reduce the burden of dementia and related neurodegenerative conditions.
- • Provide visionary leadership to expand the clinical trials unit to include government and industry-funded trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
- • Elevate the Henry Ford Center for Cognitive Health, focusing on early diagnosis and intervention for Alzheimer’s disease.
- • Provide direct patient care and educational endeavors including a teaching role with medical students and Neurology and Psychiatry residents as well as Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology fellows.
- • Conduct population-based epidemiological studies and clinical trials in Behavioral Neurology.
- • Collaborate with the NIH-Funded Henry Ford Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.
- • Work with the interdisciplinary Memory Clinic team to elevate the Center for Cognitive Health.
- • Develop and test complimentary therapeutics in collaboration with the Henry Ford Center for Integrative Medicine and continue community outreach programs with the Greater Michigan Alzheimer’s Association.
- • Collaborate with the Department of Population Health, basic science laboratories, and the Henry Ford Innovation Institute to fast-track scientific discovery from bench to bedside.
- • Hold a tenure-track academic appointment for those who qualify, through Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine and Wayne State School of Medicine.
Required
- • Must be board certified in Neurology.
- • Must have completed or currently completing a Behavioral Neurology Fellowship.
Preferred
- • A proven track record of successful, high impact funded clinical research is desired.
Henry Ford Medical Group’s Department of Neurology is seeking a board-certified Neurologist to serve as Division Head of Behavioral Neurology, providing leadership for our clinical and research programs in aging, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Our Division Head will be passionate about treating patients in various stages and etiologies of cognitive decline. The Memory Clinic team provides comprehensive evaluation and care for patients with memory concerns. The Center for Cognitive Health focused on early diagnosis and intervention for Alzheimer’s disease, providing the latest diagnostic modalities and treatment of memory loss and dementia, including PET imaging, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, genetic testing, EEGs, neuropsychology.
The Behavioral Neurology team includes a behavioral neurologist, two geriatric psychiatrists, an advanced practice provider, two social workers, infusion nurse coordinator plus solid nursing and administrative support. Our program has 30 years of experience in the medical management of Alzheimer’s and dementia, with a UCNS-approved behavioral neurology fellowship training program. Our busy clinical practice treats over 800 individual memory patients per year and includes the use of the latest tools to diagnose the stages of memory loss and dementia.
The Successful Candidate Will
Opportunity Includes
Additional Information
The Behavioral Neurology team includes a behavioral neurologist, two geriatric psychiatrists, an advanced practice provider, two social workers, infusion nurse coordinator plus solid nursing and administrative support. Our program has 30 years of experience in the medical management of Alzheimer’s and dementia, with a UCNS-approved behavioral neurology fellowship training program. Our busy clinical practice treats over 800 individual memory patients per year and includes the use of the latest tools to diagnose the stages of memory loss and dementia.
The Successful Candidate Will
- Assume the Paul C. Alandt Endowed Chair of Behavioral Neurology, which is specifically intended to support efforts towards reducing the burden of dementia and related neurodegenerative conditions.
- Provide visionary leadership to expand our robust clinical trials unit to include government and industry-funded trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
- Elevate the Henry Ford Center for Cognitive Health, focusing on early diagnosis and intervention for Alzheimer’s disease.
- Provide direct patient care and educational endeavors including a teaching role with medical students and Neurology and Psychiatry residents as well as Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology fellows.
Opportunity Includes
- Conducting population-based epidemiological studies and clinical trials in Behavioral Neurology.
- Collaborating with the NIH-Funded Henry Ford Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which will collect genetic information and biological samples from 180,000 patients in the Henry Ford Health System, and over 1 million patients nationally.
- Working with our existing 10-person interdisciplinary Memory Clinic team at Henry Ford Hospital to elevate our Center for Cognitive Health.
- Developing and testing complimentary therapeutics in collaboration with the Henry Ford Center for Integrative Medicine and continue ongoing community outreach programs with the Greater Michigan Alzheimer’s Association.
- Collaborating with our Department of Population Health, our basic science laboratories, and the Henry Ford Innovation Institute, which focuses on clinical and translational research to fast-track scientific discovery from bench to bedside.
- A tenure-track academic appointment for those who qualify, through Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine and Wayne State School of Medicine.
- Must be board certified in Neurology.
- Must have completed or currently completing a Behavioral Neurology Fellowship.
- A proven track record of successful, high impact funded clinical research is desired.
Additional Information
- Organization: Henry Ford Medical Group
- Department: Neurology - Clinical
- Shift: Day Job
- Union Code: Not Applicable
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