Open Rank of Neurology - Associate Director of ADRC - req# 33647

The University of New Mexico Center for Memory & Aging (CMA) and the Department of Neurology invites applications for a new faculty position in the Associate Professor to Professor level. The selected applicant will be an Associate Director of the newly funded New Mexico Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NM ADRC). The successful applicant will have fellowship training in cognitive disorders and experience working in an ADRC. The individual will be part of the UNM Center for Memory & Aging research programs and will be recruiting and assessing participants in two program project level grants (MarkVCID, https://markvcid.partners.org/ and NM ADRC, https://hsc.unm.edu/research/centers-programs/nmadrc/). It is expected that the candidate will have on-going, independent NIH research funding. Clinical duties will include directing a memory and aging clinic as well as a clinic patient load. Education duties include teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. The NM ADRC/ CMA has on-going studies in many areas with a focus on Neuroinflammation, Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment, and Health Disparities, and plasma-based biomarkers. For more information regarding NM ADRC leadership’s research https://hsc.unm.edu/research/centers-programs/nmadrc/about/nm-adrc-core-leaders.html. The Medical School has strong research faculty with excellent resources for clinical and laboratory studies. The newly funded ADRC has a commitment to provide dementia services for New Mexico’s rural and medically underserved populations. The applicant needs strong administrative skills and ability to direct a large clinical research team.

The medical school has a Clinical Translational Science Center (https://hsc.unm.edu/ctsc/), a designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://unmhealth.org/cancer/) with a genome center, a Brain and Behavioral Health Institute (https://hsc.unm.edu/research/centers-programs/bbhi/), and three different NIH-funded Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) focused on Brain Recovery & Repair, Autophagy/Inflammation/Metabolism and Center for Metals in Biology & Medicine. Neuroimaging is done with a collaboration with the Mind Research Center Network (MRN, https://www.mrn.org/) housed in the same on-campus building as CMA research. Laboratory space and facilities including a Quanterix HD-1 and Meso Scale Discovery instruments that allow for the measurement of plasma-based biomarkers. The position includes research start-up funds, state-of-the-art research and shared core facilities. Salary is competitive and dependent on faculty rank. The University of New Mexico is an equal opportunity employer.

About the University of New Mexico Center for Memory & Aging: the CMA is a stand-alone research center, reporting to the Dean of the School of Medicine. CMA has a track record of NIH funding and has recently been awarded a NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. It is poised to expand rapidly with support from the UNM Health Sciences Center Administration.

About the University of New Mexico Neurology Department: the University of New Mexico is the only Academic Medical Center in the state that is associated with a Medical School. The Department of Neurology has 35 full-time and part-time attending physicians and is home to well-established Adult and Child Residency and multiple Fellowship programs. UNM is a mission-driven institution that provides access to high quality, comprehensive and specialty care to people across the state of New Mexico.

About Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque, NM is a beautiful city with the 10,000 ft Sandia Mountains to the east and mesa desert to the west. The beautiful high desert environment provides more than 310 days of sunshine and the variety of all four seasons. Temperatures rarely get to 100F in the summer with humidity running in the teens. It is ideal for outdoor activities and sports all year-round including running, hiking, biking and skiing. Albuquerque is 1 hour from Santa Fe, NM and 2.5 hours from Taos, NM, both world famous for their art and culture. The State of New Mexico is multicultural and diverse with 19 indigenous native pueblos, Navajo reservation and three Apache tribal lands. We have excellent local cuisine, breathtaking sunsets, numerous cultural and historic sites, lakes, rivers, deserts and mountains.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent advanced degree.
• Fellowship training in Cognitive Neurology.
  
• Board certified/board eligible in Neurology or Psychiatry
  
• Eligible for Medical licensure in the state of New Mexico
• Eligible to work in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in an NIH ADRC
• Track record of sustained NIH funding
  
• Demonstrated excellence in education, training and mentoring.
  
• A demonstrated commitment to diversity,equity, inclusion, and student success, as well as working with broadly diversecommunities.

Only applications submitted throughthe official UNMJobs site will be accepted. If you are viewing this jobadvertisement on a 3rd party site, pleasevisit UNMJobs to submit an application.

Complete applications will include a cover letter addressing each of the minimum and preferred qualifications and describing the applicant's current research program, accomplishments and future goals; a current CV; copies of representative publications; and the names, addresses and contact information for three professional references. For more information, please contact NeuroHR@salud.unm.edu.

The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.