Director, Movement Disorders & Stroke Research Program
Director, Movement Disorders & Stroke Research Program
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Job Description
Location:
Medical Center Office Building (901 7th Ave)Department:
Neuroscience ResearchShift:
Varying Shifts (United States of America)Standard Weekly Hours:
40Summary:
The Director of Movement Disorders & Stroke Research will develop and lead a research program focusing on the field of pediatric neurological movements disorders stroke cerebral palsy dystonia and neurodegenerative diseases. The Director will perform research independently or in collaboration with other coinvestigators on the topics of kinesiology rehabilitation brain plasticity neuromodulation gait analysis sensory training robotics and artificial intelligence. Responsibilities include the preparation and submission of grant proposals from internal and external funding mechanisms such as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine the National Rehabilitation Center and others. The Director will supervise a team of trainees (e.g. postdoctoral research fellows graduate and undergraduate students) and research assistants who will conduct highly specialized and advanced research studies on the aforementioned areas of research. More specifically the Director will supervise the development of design initiation conduction analysis and publication of research projects of both a retrospective and prospective nature as well the participation in high quality development submission maintenance analysis and publication of complex and high risk/high value medical specialty research protocols conducted at Cook Childrens. This is a oneyear position with a possibility of renewal depending on productivity and funding availability.
Qualifications:
Doctorate (MD PhD) required in a biomedical discipline aligned with the departmental orientation medical and/or surgical specialty.
Five or more years of relevant research experience conducting basic clinical and/or translational science.
Proven capable of successfully obtaining and managing intramural and extramural funding (e.g. grants endowments etc.).
Several publications as senior author of impactive scientific results in the peerreviewed medical and/or scientific literature.
About Us:
Cook Childrens Health Care System
Cook Childrens Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the countrys leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Childrens to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.
Cook Childrens is an EOE/AA Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
