Assistant /Associate Professor Movement Disorder

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain a practice in the full range of adult movement disorders neurology.
• Be Board-certified or -eligible in neurology; have completed a fellowship in movement disorders; and be eligible for a New Jersey license.
• Have skills in botulinum treatment for movement disorders and include such patients in the practice.
• Have skills in evaluation and medical management of patients who are candidates for deep brain stimulation and ablative surgery for movement disorders, and in their postoperative management and stimulator programming.
• Coordinate care with neurosurgery, psychiatry and other disciplines as needed.
• Perform night call and weekend inpatient coverage at Barnabas-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in equal proportion with the other faculty in rotation.
• Participate in the teaching mission of RWJMS to the extent determined in consultation with the Department Chair.
• Teach and mentor medical students, neurology residents, movement disorder fellows and rotators from other departments.
• Supervise a weekly resident Continuity Clinic.
• Perform and publish other research to the extent consistent with the track of the appointment (Professional Practice, Clinical Educator or Clinical Scholar).
• Refer patients as appropriate to clinical trials and other research activity in the department and otherwise participate in the scholarly productivity and culture of the department.
• Participate in community service responsibilities of the department in such areas as providing neurological care for indigent patients and teaching or advising lay community groups in multiple areas relating to movement disorders, including deep brain stimulation, in coordination with the Department of Neurosurgery.
• Participate in the administrative tasks of the department and medical school.
• Maintain knowledge through continuing education and by maintaining Board certification in neurology and any relevant subspecialty certification.