Job Description:

I. Position Summary:

As a Neuropsychologist Clinician Scientist, the employee functions in both domains of treating patients in the clinic and leading scientific research projects to investigate therapeutic modalities.  As a Clinician, the employee provides diagnostic evaluations and treatment for patients suffering from cognitive and behavioral problems at the Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health, Hebrew SeniorLife, as well as provides training for technicians, quality control and overall oversight of the clinical noninvasive brain stimulation program offered through the Wolk Center.  As a Scientist, the employee oversees the early development and design of clinical research programs focused on developing novel, impactful and scalable therapeutic approaches to promote health span. The employee also advances the use of neuromodulation to drive better patient outcomes. The employee oversees the entire translational research spectrum, including hypothesis-generating research, early feasibility studies, randomized controlled and pivotal trials. The employee has direct influence over multiple research domains to build a strong evidence generation engine that translates results to the clinic.

II. Core Competencies:

• Ability to diagnose and treat neuropsychological conditions in adult and geriatric patients using current evidence-based techniques.
• Ability to intervene in and manage patients in psychological crisis.
• Experience applying and supervising transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial electrical stimulation sessions in clinical, on- and off-label, programs.
• Experience training and assessing competencies of non-invasive brain stimulation technicians.
• Ability to coordinate and supervise clinical noninvasive brain stimulation program.
• Experience leveraging and integrating novel mobile technologies in the promotion of cognitive wellbeing and healthy aging.
• Ability to provide education on neuropsychological concepts and neuromodulation therapeutic approaches to patients, staff, and families at level appropriate to these groups respectively.
• Ability to work effectively within a team, group and across the organization to accomplish tasks and achieve desired results.
• Display enthusiasm and promote a friendly working situation; support group decision-making and solicit opinions from co-workers.
• Ability to increase understanding of others by noticing, interpreting and anticipating feelings and concerns of others; respecting, valuing, and using individual differences to generate new opportunities and enhance solutions.
• Ability to absorb, comprehend and exchange information with others in a way that enhances mutual understanding of ideas, issues and desired actions.
• Ability to listen well.
• Ability to use and expand technical body of knowledge to continuously improve work and share information with others.
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, following specific procedures and ensuring accuracy in documentation and data.
• Ability to stay informed of current professional trends, to learn and apply new concepts.
• Ability to identify own areas of opportunity and set and monitor self-development goals.
• Ability to demonstrate tact, maintain confidences and foster an ethical work environment. Demonstrate integrity by giving proper credit to others and by handling all situations honestly.
• Ability to advocate new ideas and set an example for co-workers; delegates responsibility and empowers decision making; provide constructive feedback to others.
• Uses experience to manage effectively in increasingly difficult and ambiguous situations, making the best decisions possible at the time.
• Strong sense of teamwork; ability to lead team activities.

III. Position Responsibilities:

• Provides consultation as requested in the outpatient settings.

• Provides scientific and clinical leadership.

• Assess cognitive functioning in various forms of dementing diseases (Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Frontal-Temporal dementia etc.)

• Conduct neuropsychological evaluations such as assessments of intelligence, attention, concentration, sensorimotor function, language, learning, and short and long-term memory, abstract reasoning, executive functioning, motor skills, and other cognitive functions.

• Assessment of mood (e.g., depression, anxiety, apathy, hopelessness, stigma, self-esteem etc.), quality of life and activities of daily living (ADL).

• Offer rehabilitation strategies to assist with daily living tasks. For example, establish neurobehavioral baseline measures for monitoring disease progression.

• Provide education or counseling to individuals with brain damage and their families. The employee may help families try to understand how their loved one’s environment can be altered to improve daily functioning.

• Write detailed clinical neuropsychological reports, using data from psychological or neuropsychological tests, neuroimaging and other diagnostic medical procedures, self-report measures, rating scales, direct observations, or interviews.

• Work closely with Medical Director to identify patient needs to direct research development roadmap efforts.

• Lead the scientific development and execution of clinical trials.

• Co-Lead the Healthy Aging Initiative to identify markers of physical and mental health across the lifespan and promote multimodal interventions that support health and prevent age-related cognitive decline.

• Lead the scientific development and execution of remotely monitored caregiver-led application of neuromodulation that potentially will extend the benefit to patients beyond clinic-based interventions.

• Lead the development of a scientific program combining home-based multi-focal stimulation with imaging-based computational modeling of the electric field generated inside target brain circuits to investigate the targeting of symptom-specific brain circuits in older adults with major depressive disorder and dementia.

• Publish scientific work in high impact-factor peer reviewed journals.

• Presents at national and international scientific and professional meetings.

• Supervise training of noninvasive brain stimulation technicians; including development of training curriculum to onboard new brain stimulation technicians and keep program up-to-date, including assessing competencies and ensuring quality control procedures are in place.

• Develop educational material regarding noninvasive brain stimulation to share with prospective patients, their families and referring physicians.

• Bridge clinical and research applications in care of cognitive and mental health disabilities.

• Track technological advances for mobile evaluation of cognitive and behavioral functions, and interventions to promote brain health and healthy aging, and develop programs for its assessment and adoption in the Wolk Center.

• Works collaboratively and integrates care with Wolk Center clinical teams and other members of the HSL clinical care team

• As a member of the treatment team, collaborates with other professional staff in diagnosing problems, formulating treatment plans and evaluating progress.

• Effectively communicates results in written and oral form, with treatment recommendations as appropriate.

• Confers with other professional staff members regarding significant reactions or events which affect the client and the treatment process.

• Attends training seminars and workshops related to the work.

• Maintains records and prepares reports and correspondence related to the work.

• Documents patient visits within a timely manner (typically within same day) using the appropriate medical record system

• Using electronic charge capture system, or other established process, submits charges for each patient visit within 72 hours of completing the visit

• Performs related work as assigned.

IV. Qualifications:

Licensure

• Completion of doctoral degree in Psychology with specialized training in Clinical Neuropsychology from an accredited professional institution.
• Requires current Massachusetts state license as Licensed Psychologist.

Experience and Knowledge

• Professional experience providing neuropsychological evaluation and treatment in LTC, supportive housing or other geriatric facility.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of clinical neuropsychology.
• Documented significant contributions on peer-reviewed publications and demonstrated success as clinical investigators.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate, think strategically and conceptually, manage multiple projects simultaneously and handle even difficult situations.
• Documented expertise in neurophysiology and neuroimaging.
• Documented expertise in noninvasive brain stimulation such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES).

V Physical Requirements:

• Please refer to the Physical Requirement Sheets in Occupational Health.

Remote Type:

On-site

Salary Range:

$114,658.36 - $171,987.53