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Psychiatrist, Medical Physician
3 weeks ago
StaffPhysicians Orange, CA, United StatesCompHealth is currently assisting a California clinic with their search for a general psychiatrist. They specialize in brain-based technologies and integrative neuropsychiatry. The work schedule can be flexible, with 32 hours a week as the minimum. Physicians are encouraged to pr ...
Full Time Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Physician - Los Angeles, United States - Medical Staffing Associates
Description
Cognitive Neurologist sought to Director Neurosciences Program
An academically affiliated medical research institute in California is recruiting a clinical scientist with expertise in cognitive neurology to direct their neuroscience program.
They are seeking a neurologist with a record of publications in peer reviewed journals and some level of grant funding, preferably from the NIH or other federal or state agency.
Must be willing to collaborate with other scientists in the institution.We are seeking a candidate with excellent communication skills who can speak to both a scientific audience as well as a non-scientific audience.
Emphasis is on scientific integrity, transparency and rigor.The Director of the Neuroscience Program will be responsible for heading up a large ongoing Brain Aging study that sees elderly participants that may be cognitively healthy, have MCI or frank dementia including AD as well as other dementias (for example, vascular, Lewy Body).
The study participants are followed longitudinally with histories, physicals, lumbar punctures for tau and amyloid levels, MRIs, EEGs, EEGs with mental stress testing, neuropsychological testing and other tests.
The Director would also conduct a monthly clinical consensus conference that determines level of cognitive dysfunction after reviewing the data on each participant.
This program has been long running at HMRI with current foundation and NIH funding to support the study.The candidate would supervise at least 2 other researchers (one an MD/PhD the other a PHD); one who is an expert in EEGs and the other who is an expert in lipid abnormalities in blood and urine of AD patients.