The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio
Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Assistant / Associate Professor / Professor
MD or MD/PhD Neurologist Faculty Position
TheGlenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio is recruiting Neurologist faculty with subspecialty training in Behavioral/ Geriatric/ Dementia/ Vascular/ Movement Disorders/ Sleep sought for an open-rank tenured, tenure-track, or non-tenure position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in the Biggs Dementia Clinic and Clinical Research Core at the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases (Biggs Institute) at UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA).
We are seeking a board-certified neurologist interested in combining creative, comprehensive, compassionate clinical care for a broad range of memory and cognitive disorders, as part of a multi-disciplinary team of neurologists, neuropsychologists, nurses, social workers, geriatricians, geriatric psychiatrists, therapists, counselors and care managers, with rapid career advancement in the clinician-scientist, clinician-educator or leadership tracks. Physicians with experience caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, experience conducting clinical trials (as PI or site PI) or interested in studying preclinical disease are especially welcome.
The Biggs Institute, led by founding Director, Dr. Sudha Seshadri is a new flagship institute within UTHSA with the mission of establishing an interdisciplinary, integrated program to provide comprehensive clinical care and undertake innovative and important research into the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, including vascular contributions to dementia, Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy and frontotemporal dementia.
The Biggs Institute was designated in 2021 as an NIA funded South Texas ADRC (Alzheimer's Disease Research Center) in partnership with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
The Institute has strong institutional and community support, substantial philanthropic and NIH funding, and will benefit from existing resources within UTHSA such as the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, the Research Imaging Institute along with the San Antonio campus of the UT Health Houston School of Public Health.
In addition, there will be opportunities for immersive, collaborative research within the Framingham Heart Study, the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology, the Cross-Cohorts Collaboration Consortium, the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project, the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project, the International Stroke Genetics Consortium and other consortia in which the founding director of the Biggs Institute, Dr. Sudha Seshadri, has a leadership role.
UTHSA is the only academic medical school in San Antonio, the 7th largest (and fastest growing) city in the United States. San Antonio is a historic, family-friendly city (celebrating a tricentennial in 2018) and has a low cost of living, good schools and superb outdoor and cultural opportunities.
Selected faculty will be afforded protected time and collaborative opportunities for their research, teaching or administrative interests and personalized mentoring from a team of suitable, experienced career and research mentors for rapid career advancement; this will include strong support to obtain K, R01, foundation and philanthropic funding. Salary and benefits will be competitive and will consider the candidates training, clinical, teaching and administrative experience, publications and research/grant funding. Appointments will be on a rolling basis as suitable candidates are identified.
The appointment will be at the Biggs Institute with an academic appointment within the Department of Neurology. The selected candidate(s) will report directly to Prof. Sudha Seshadri and to the Interim Chair of Neurology, Dr. Carlayne Jackson. Additional cross-appointments may be feasible in relevant parent departments such as Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Medicine, Radiology, an appropriate basic science department or at the Audie Murphy VA.
San Antonio is a historic, family-friendly city with a low cost of living, good schools and superb outdoor and cultural opportunities.
For full consideration, please visit the UT Health Careers faculty applicant portal at: https://uthscsa.referrals.selectminds.com/faculty. To apply for the position, upload 1) a cover letter stating career goals and the relevance of the candidate's training and experience to the position; 2) a current CV; and 3) names and contact information of three references
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