Epileptologist Torrington, Connecticut

Description

EPILEPTOLOGIST

Join the Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare

The Hartford HealthCare (HHC) Epilepsy Center has experienced tremendous growth and is seeking a fellowship trained BC/BE Epileptologist. We have a collaborative and inclusive model of care, offering personalized, coordinated care with excellent patient experience. Our center has all the specialized diagnostic and treatment tools needed to help people with seizures get more out of life.

Job details:

Preferred candidates will have strong competency in the surgical treatment of epilepsy and interest in developing cutting edge approaches for epilepsy surgical. Demonstrated experience in areas such as education, research, or quality are also welcomed.

Clinical duties include outpatient care for people with epilepsy, as well as a mix of routine EEGs, EMU, LTM and intracranial EEG services.

About the Epilepsy Center at the HHC Ayer Neuroscience Institute :

The Epilepsy Center at Hartford HealthCares Ayer Neuroscience Institutes approach to care is a supportive, multidisciplinary care model. Our team includes 8 epileptologists and 3 neurosurgeons. The behavioral health of our patients is attended to in collaboration with our social worker and psychiatrist. Our care model is strengthened by a group of outstanding advanced practice providers.

We are a warm and welcoming group of people with a very collaborative mindset. We enjoy a private practice approach in the clinic balanced by an academic program structures. The UConn neurology residency program clinical training is based at Hartford Hospital and the program director is one of our epileptologists. Furthermore, HHC offers excellent infrastructure for research and has multiple clinical collaborations with technology companies. As epilepsy specialists we meet regularly to discuss complex cases, review EEGs, discuss journal articles, and share ideas.

The Epilepsy Center offers:

The most advanced care for people of all ages with seizures and all forms of epilepsy

A Level 4 Accredited Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC)

A full range of EEG types, 3T MRI, functional MRI, PET, Wada test, and epilepsy focused neuropsychological evaluations

A state of the art Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) in an ABRET accredited EEG lab staffed with registered EEG technologists.

SPECT studies with high quality image processing

Intracranial EEG monitoring, paired with sophisticated brain reconstruction software for exquisite electrode localization and seizure interpretation.

The most advanced surgical treatments, including deep brain stimulation (DBS), and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and laser ablation.

About Hartford HealthCares Ayer Neuroscience Institute:

The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare is a rapidly expanding Institute with a focus on comprehensive patient care, academics, and research. The Institute enjoys the resources of a system committed to excellence in patient quality and experience and boasts an impressive staff of world class Neuroscience leaders. Our specialists span the areas of vascular neurology, neuro-oncology, neuromuscular, movement disorders, epilepsy, headache and pain management, cognitive neurology, neurosurgery, neuro-critical care and general neurology.

About Hartford HealthCare:

The Hartford HealthCare network employs over 2,500 providers in over 400 practice locations throughout Connecticut, seven acute care hospitals including one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest, physician-led, multi-specialty medical groups in New England.

This means MORE OPTIONS to propel careers to new heights and all within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are teachers, researchers, leaders and, most of all, caregivers.

Our location:

Connecticut is located within two hours of Boston and New York City, and offers you and your family access to the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live near the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.

For more information:

Please send email with CV to:

Clayton Tebbetts, HHC Neuroscience Physician Recruiter,

or call/text:

Click to see more about: The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford HealthCare

Click to see more about:The Epilepsy Center at HHC's Neuroscience Institute

Qualifications

board certified or eligible neurology & epilepsy trained