Faculty Vacancy Announcement Pediatric Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Instructor/Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor
Director of Research/Director of Pediatric Headache Medicine
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Director
Division of Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Department of Pediatrics
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
The Department of Pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is seeking to hire a dynamic, career oriented physician at the Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor academic rank for the Division of Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. There will also be the potential for either clinical or lab bench research and opportunities for collaboration. The successful candidate will join 2 additional faculty members and will provide both inpatient and outpatient care. The faculty currently supports an active Level 4 epilepsy program, concussion program and the only pediatric multiple sclerosis program in the state of New Jersey. Qualified candidates must be board certified/board eligible in Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology.
In addition, the department seeks to bring aboard a qualified, motivated physician as the Director of Pediatric
Headache Medicine, to oversee and develop the outpatient and inpatient headache program. The department also seeks a Director of Research to oversee current research projects within the division, and help expand the breadth and scope of the division’s participation in research.
The inpatient clinical services are provided at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. This is a 105-bed acute care hospital located on the only pediatric academic health campus in New Jersey. The outpatient services are located in the Rutgers Child Health Institute of NJ. This state of art 5-story facility includes a Pediatric CRC, Pediatric subspecialty offices and a modern research facility, whose scientists have strong ties to the Institute for the Neurosciences and Institute for the study of Child Development.
The Department of Pediatrics has a full complement of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists. Adjacent to the RWJ Barnabas Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s hospital is the PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital, which is one of the country’s largest inpatient acute rehabilitation facilities for children. Across the street is the Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ – the only NCI designated center in the state of New Jersey.
As the State’s premier institution, there are many opportunities to collaborate across campuses with all the health professional schools and biomedical science school at the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences strategic plan includes neuroscience as a signature program with the establishment of the Brain Health Institute. The program also educates medical students, pediatric residents, child psychiatry fellows, and adult neurology residents.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic career oriented physician. The position offers a generous salary and benefits package and academic rank commensurate with experience.
Interested candidates should email a cover letter and your CV to:
Vikram Bhise, MD
Associate Professor and Division Chief, Department of Pediatrics
Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
89 French Street, CHI-2216
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
bhisevi@rwjms.rutgers.edu