Child Neurology Position

Location: Amarillo Regional Specialty Clinic

Department: Amarillo-Neuro

Shift: First Shift (United States of America)

Standard Weekly

Hours:

30

Cook Children's Medical Center and Health Care System
, located in Ft. Worth, TX, seeks a board certified/board eligible child neurologist to join our pediatric neurology clinic in Amarillo, Texas. Cook Children's is committed to securing a child neurologist whose professional, social, and economic interests would lend themselves to a long-term, cultural fit within the institution, the medical staff, and the community. This physician will be responsible for outpatient neurology care at the Amarillo location and other regional locations as needed.

This physician will also provide inpatient consultations at two local hospitals providing pediatric care. Subspecialty clinics for epilepsy and movement disorders are provided monthly by staff from the main campus with telemedicine consultations available for subspecialty care as required. Call responsibilities will be shared by Cook Children's physicians serving West Texas. Interested candidates will have faculty appointment and teaching opportunities with Texas Tech providing instruction for medical students and neurology residents.

• Enjoy support from a current faculty of 19 Pediatric Neurologists, 9 Advanced Practice Providers, 3 Pediatric Neurosurgeons, 1 Physiatrist and 4 Neuropsychologists.
• Access to a 10-bed epilepsy monitoring unit and active epilepsy surgery program (average 40 surgeries/yr) with available technologies including 3T and intraoperative-MRI, Magnetoencephalography, PET, SPECT, fMRI, TMS, and HD-EEG on the main campus.
• 26-bed state-of-the-art Neuro-Rehabilitation unit located at main campus.
• Established comprehensive headache program, stroke program, movement disorder program, and epilepsy program to refer patients.

• CME:
  Paid directly to the physician each month.
• PTO: 32 days per year.
• Medical/Dental/Vision Plans.
• Retirement Plan (managed by Fidelity).
• Short Term Disability Coverage (No cost to physician).
• Relocation:
  Fully funded, uncapped.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.