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Job Description
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Adult Neuropsychologist, Neuropsychology Service
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. This is primarily a clinical position.
Palo Alto & Emeryville, California
Position Title: Neuropsychologist
Shift / Schedule: 10 Hour Days, Full-Time
At Stanford Health Care, we see our allied health practitioners as critical contributors to our pioneering services. Working at the heart of medicine, we invite you to bring your very best to our team. Whether you're a Neuropsychologist or Psychometrist or one of dozens of other specialties, there's a place for your talents here. Explore our careers page to find your next opportunity!
Department Description
The Neuropsychology Service provides comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological evaluations to a wide range of neurological and neurosurgical patient populations. Common referrals include MCI/dementia, pre-surgical epilepsy, pre-DBS for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, stroke/cerebrovascular disease, concussion, TBI, CNS and non-CNS cancers, and demyelinating diseases. There is full psychometrist support for testing and scoring.
Stanford Health Care is certified as a Level 1 trauma center and Level 4 comprehensive epilepsy program. It is also designated as an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) and Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease. There are opportunities to participate in multidisciplinary case conferences with the DBS/Movement Disorders, Epilepsy, and Memory Disorders clinics. Didactic opportunities in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences are plentiful. Research opportunities and supervision of medical and neuropsychology trainees may be available. The successful applicant will be eligible for a Clinician Educator (Affiliated) appointment through the Stanford University School of Medicine.
A Brief Overview
Neuropsychologists are licensed clinical psychologists with special expertise in the applied science of brain behavior relationships, which they use to assess, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate patients across the lifespan with neurological, medical, neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and other cognitive and learning disorders. The Neuropsychologist uses psychological, neurological, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological principles, techniques and tests to evaluate patients' neurocognitive, behavioral, and emotional strengths and weaknesses and their relationship to normal and abnormal central nervous system functioning. The Neuropsychologist uses this information and information provided by other medical / healthcare providers / collateral contacts to identify and diagnose neurobehavioral disorders, and plan and implement intervention strategies. A Neuropsychologist's typical caseload may include people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) such as stroke and aneurysm ruptures, brain tumors, encephalitis,
epilepsy/seizure disorders, Parkinson's Disease, dementias, and mental illnesses (e.g., schizophrenia.)
Neuropsychologists also assess people with a wide range of developmental disorders, including attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, and Asperger's Disease. Neuropsychologists differ from other psychologists in their ability to accurately assess cognitive deficits, and to manage, treat and rehabilitate brain-injured and neurocognitively-impaired patients. They have specialized knowledge of the brain, and an understanding of such areas as: neuroanatomy, neurobiology, psychopharmacology, neurological and medical illness or injury, as well as the use and interpretation of neuropsychological tests.
Qualifications include Doctoral degree in psychology from an APA- or CPA-accredited program; Completion of an internship in clinical psychology including neuropsychological experience; Completion of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology; Eligible for ABPP board certification in Clinical Neuropsychology; Eligible for psychology licensure in California; Two (2) years of post-fellowship clinical neuropsychology experience; and ABPP board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology.
To apply, please visit: https://careers.stanfordhealthcare.org/us/en/job/R2438188/Neuropsychologist
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