Director of Advanced Neurodiagnostics - Houston, United States - Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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Houston, United States

2 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Division:
CHofSA Pediatric Departments

Department:
CHofSA Pediatrics - Neurology

Employment Duration:
Full-time

Working Title:
Assistant Professor

Baylor College of Medicine and Department Summary:

Serving as a focal point for pediatric services throughout the community, CHRISTUS Children's in San Antonio is a world-class children's hospital - both inside and out.

In February 2013, CHRISTUS Children's finalized an agreement with Baylor College of Medicine, ranked as the #6 medical school by U.S.

News & World Report in Baylor College of Medicine recruits, employs, and oversees physicians at the children's hospital.

Summary:

This position will be tasked with developing and running a magnetoencephalography (MEG) laboratory - which will support the comprehensive epilepsy program.

This includes supervising patient scans; reviewing the MEG data; co-registering the epileptiform dipoles and functional dipoles on MRI and fully participating in epilepsy conferences and care management plans.

In addition, the neuroscientist would be responsible for deploying advanced digital localization software programs (i.e. Curry or similar) in conjunction with intracranial monitoring cases (i.e.

stereotactic EEG and grid EEG) and participate as a member of the epilepsy team in both pre-surgical and surgical cases (i.e.

Phase I and II).

The neuroscientist will be tasked with the role of research champion within neurosciences (e.g. Neurology, Neurosurgery and PM&R).

This includes keeping an up-to-date record of all ongoing clinical research studies/trials within neurosciences, assisting investigators in developing and deploying their study proposals and coordinating with the Research Office at Christus Children's.

Minimum Qualifications:

MD or Ph.

D. degree (neuroscience, psychology, neuropsychology, clinical neurophysiology, biomedical engineering, or computational sciences preferred).

Training and experience in running/operating a magnetoencephalography system; neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation system; electroencephalography and advanced digital signal localization software (eg. Curry, BESA, etc.) strongly preferred.
A track record of translational clinical research, study management, and program development is also preferred.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.