What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Neuropsychologist position at University of California, Davis?
The Department of Neurology at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine is recruiting for a full-time Clinical Neuropsychologist in the Professor of Clinical Neurology or Health Sciences Clinical Professor series at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank. Faculty in the Clinical Neurology series are expected to engage in clinical activity, teaching, research and creative work, and University/public service. Faculty in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series are expected to engage in teaching, professional competence and activity, scholarly or creative activities, and University/public service.
EXPECTATIONS
The successful candidate will have strong clinical skills to provide appropriate neuropsychological evaluations of adult and pediatric patients with a wide variety of neurosurgical, neurological, and psychiatric diseases and disorders. The candidate will provide primarily inpatient and outpatient clinical neuropsychological assessment services; prepare reports and other documents on patient status for referring physicians; provide training and supervision to postdoctoral trainees; and provide service to the department and University.
This position will regularly work with patients with epilepsy to provide evaluations to assist with epilepsy treatment planning and assessing eligibility for epilepsy surgery. Experience performing Wadas and intraoperative/extraoperative language mapping and/or with fMRI evaluation of language dominance is preferred.
The UC Davis Department of Neurology and UC Davis Health teaching hospital are nationally ranked in US News & World Report. UC Davis is an NAEC Level 4 Epilepsy Center. The department has a Clinical Neuropsychology Fellowship Training Program. Neurology has 60 clinical faculty across all neurological specialties with excellent nursing, staff, neuropsychology, social work, and pharmacological support.
