Behavioral Neurologist

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. The 3-year center development plan calls for adding 3 clinicians together with the development of a robust clinical trials enterprise across the spectrum of cognitive decline including normal individuals at high risk. Community outreach and support to underserved populations within our service area will also be a focus of the Center.

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. We have established a new 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.

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 over 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.
• will work on further development of established with 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, Neurology and Psychiatry residents as well as Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology fellows.

The Department of Neurology has a busy and active clinical trials unit with expertise in stroke, critical care, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and neuromuscular disorders.

Opportunities include:

• 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 establish a new Center for Cognitive Health, focusing on early diagnosis and intervention for Alzheimer's disease.
• 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 translational research 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.

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 lsettle2@hfhs.org or via the link.