Pediatric Neuropsychologist

Job description

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida, is seeking a to add a full-time Pediatric Neuropsychologist to our growing team in the Division of Neurology in Orlando. Training is available for a Neuropsychologist with an interest in epilepsy. The Neuropsychologist will spend the major part of their time completing epilepsy surgical work up including: The remaining time will be spent on patients with epilepsy, neuromuscular, developmental delay, neuroimmunology issues and other common neurological conditions. We are currently developing an ambitious, multidisciplinary pediatric neurosciences program for Florida. Our epilepsy surgery program is rapidly growing. We have a great epilepsy team with 4 epileptologists, one functional neurosurgeon, 2 APPs, experienced EEG technologists and nurses. We have a 6 bed EMU and ROSA. We expect to be testing around 50 phase 1 patients a year. At least 50% of the Neuropsychologist’s time will be devoted to this work. Additionally, this position will support other clinical programs like neuromuscular, neuroimmunology and headache. The bulk of the current need is for general neurology patients with cognitive dysfunction and decline. We have a busy outpatient...