What are the responsibilities and job description for the ACADEMIC/FACULTY/RESEARCH PHYSICIAN position at Vanderbilt University Medical Center?
Join our diverse and growing team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Department of Neurology has over 150 faculty, fellows, and residents spanning ten divisions and five centers and ranks 13 th in the nation for NIH funding. Vanderbilt ranks 5 th among the nation s elite medical schools for research, is ranked as a Best Hospital Honor Roll designee, and we hold the top ranking for both adult and children s hospitals in Tennessee by U.S. News & World Report . We are a Becker s Healthcare 100 Great Hospitals in America and Forbes Best-in-State Employer. Our network of clinics, both main campus and community-based, provides over 70,000 annual ambulatory neurology visits.
Operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. The mission of VUMC Neurology is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Clinical Neuropsychologist : The Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University is seeking two excellent early career neuropsychologists for Assistant Professor positions. These positions are structured for clinical neuropsychologists in a general medicine setting, with an emphasis in degenerative conditions in a busy outpatient practice. Involvement in our neurosurgery program doing evaluations for deep brain stimulation (DBS), focus-ultrasound, and the normal pressure hydrocephalus clinic will be expected for at least one of the candidates. The candidates would join a growing Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology Division that includes eight neurologists and seven neuropsychologists, in addition to several advanced practice providers, psychometrists, and neuroscientists. Full psychometrist support will be provided.
In addition to providing outpatient care through the multidisciplinary Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology Division Memory Clinic, there is the potential for protected time for the appropriate candidate to develop an independent research program. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has outstanding neuroscience resources to support basic, clinical, and translational research activities, including the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research, the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, and the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer s Center. Involvement in training practicum students and / or postdoctoral fellows in neuropsychology will be considered.
