- Compensation: competitive salary and comprehensive benefits; Henry Ford Health does not publish pay ranges for physician roles
- Location: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
- System: Henry Ford Health, one of the nation’s leading academic health systems
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:
- ssume 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.
- onducting population-based epidemiological studies and clinical trials in Behavioral Neurology.
- ollaborating 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.
- orking 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.
- Michigan State University - College of Human Medicine and Wayne State School of Medicine.
Qualifications
- 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.