The Department of Neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York is seeking to hire an MD or MD/PhD at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to lead a research program focused on fluid biomarkers or PET imaging of Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.

 

The successful candidate will have a track record of publications, research funding, collaboration, and technical expertise in the application of fluid or PET biomarkers to Alzheimer’s disease research. The candidate’s research program will be expected to contribute to the Biomarker Core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Mount Sinai, and will interface with researchers in the Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, the Translational Molecular Imaging Institute, and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Neuroscience more broadly. Approximately 20% effort may be devoted to clinical duties.

 

 

The Mount Sinai Health System is New York City’s largest integrated delivery system, encompassing eight hospitals, a leading medical school, and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region. Mount Sinai’s vision is to produce the safest care, the highest quality, the highest satisfaction, the best access and the best value of any health system in the nation. 

 

The Health System includes approximately 7,480 primary and specialty care physicians; 11 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 410 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. The Icahn School of Medicine is one of three medical schools that have earned distinction by multiple indicators: ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Medical Schools”, aligned with a U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” Hospital, No. 12 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding, and among the top 10 most innovative research institutions as ranked by the journal Nature in its Nature Innovation Index. This reflects a special level of excellence in education, clinical practice, and research. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 18 on U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” of top U.S. hospitals; it is one of the nation’s top 20 hospitals in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Nephrology, and Neurology/Neurosurgery, and in the top 50 in six other specialties in the 2018-2019 “Best Hospitals” issue. Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children’s Hospital also is ranked nationally in five out of ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked 11th nationally for Ophthalmology and 44th for Ear, Nose, and Throat. Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai South Nassau are ranked regionally.

 

 

 

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