Behavioral Neurologist

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Job Description

Henry Ford Medical Group’s Department of Neurology is seeking a board eligible/certified neurologist with fellowship training in behavioral or geriatric neurology to join our multi-disciplinary team as part of the Henry Ford Center for Cognitive Health. 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 Behavioral Neurology Division seeks a specialist 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. Our 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. Community outreach and support to underserved populations within our service area will also be a focus of the Center.

 

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.

 

With nearly 60 neurologists total, Henry Ford’s Neuroscience Institute is one of the largest and most active in the Midwest, offering the most advanced neurologic medical and surgical therapies across all the major subspecialties, along with a robust residency and an array of fellowship offerings. As an academic program, we are active in clinical trials and neurology research. 

 

The successful candidate will:

• Participate in robust clinical trials unit to include government and industry-funded trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders
• Work with our 10-person interdisciplinary Memory Clinic team at Henry Ford Hospital on further development of the Center for Cognitive Health
• Provide direct patient care and educational endeavors including a teaching role with medical students, Neurology and Psychiatry residents as well as Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology fellows

This position offers the opportunity to:

• Conduct population-based epidemiological studies and clinical trials in Behavioral Neurology
•  Collaborate 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
• Develop and test 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 
• Collaborate with our Department of Population Health, our basic science laboratories, and the Henry Ford Innovation Institute, which focuses on clinical translational research from bench to bedside
• Obtain a tenure-track academic appointment for those who qualify, through Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine and Wayne State School of Medicine

If you are interested in learning more, please forward your CV via email to: Brien Smith, M.D. Department Chair of Neurology, c/o Laura Settles at View email address on us.fitly.work or via the link.

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Qualifications

• Must have completed an ACGME/AOA approved Neurology residency program
• Must have completed or currently completing an ACGME/AOA approved Behavioral or Geriatric Neurology fellowship program
• Must be board-eligible/board-certified in Neurology
• Must have a valid medical degree