Chair- Department of Neurology
Requisition #: 100394
Status: Full-Time with Full-Time Benefits (40 Hours)
Business Unit: HF Medical Group
Shift: Days
Department: Neurology
Weekends: Yes
Job Family: Doctor
Job Function: Physicians
Campus/Job Location: Henry Ford Hospital Detroit Campus
Location (State/City): US-MI-Detroit
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Overview:
The Henry Ford Health System, one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems, seeks a new Chair to lead the Department of Neurology.
The Henry Ford Department of Neurology, which is currently staffed by 35 neurologists and more than 25 Ph.D. members, offers a broad spectrum of neurological services, each backed by strong teaching and research programs to provide patients with the most up to date advances in diagnosis and treatment. Our faculty treats more than 35,000 patients across all subspecialties in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. The department also works in close collaboration with eight other departments in the nationally recognized Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute. Members of the Department of Neurology have formed teams of nationally recognized clinicians and researchers in the following areas of expertise:
* Division of Stroke- The Harris Stroke and Neurovascular Center at Henry Ford provides comprehensive care with a focus on rapid diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke to save lives and prevent disability. Henry Ford's stroke team treats 1,400 patients with acute stroke annually and partners with the Center for Cerebrovascular Surgery and Neurocritical Care to offer the complete ranges of therapies: medical, interventional and surgical, as well as advanced clinical trials. Henry Ford neuroscience specialists in stroke and stroke research are the only investigators in the U.S. to be designated as both a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Center and an NIH Neurorestoration Research Center. Henry Ford's stroke team served as the national coordinating center for the original tPA study and as lead authors of the landmark publication, which recently was voted among the top nine research articles published in the 200-year history of The New England Journal of Medicine.
* Division of Neurocritical Care- Henry Ford has one of the most comprehensive neurointensivist programs in the country, also the largest in Michigan, annually treating more than 1,300 patients with critical neurological issues. The neurointensive team monitors patients following therapies for cerebrovascular diseases as well as other neurosurgical or neurological interventions, and treats the complete range of brain and spine injury conditions. As leaders in the field of neurocritical care, our team participates in NIH clinical trials and other studies to advance research and find new therapies to restore brain function.
* Division of Epilepsy- With nine fellowship-trained neurologists, including two pediatric neurologists, and two neurosurgeons, Henry Ford's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center has over 20 years of experience in the medical and surgical management of epilepsy. Henry Ford's epilepsy team is one of the largest and most active medically and surgically in the Midwest, offering the most advanced medical therapy, surgical therapy, and neurostimulation implant therapies. Our busy clinical practice completes over 4,000 epilepsy visits and 3,000 EEGs annually. Recognized by the National Associations of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) as a Level 4 epilepsy center, our two state-of-the-art EMUs admit almost 300 patients per year. Additionally, Henry Ford Hospital has one of 29 magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain imaging systems in the country. As an academic program, the Henry Ford Epilepsy Center is active in clinical trials and epilepsy research. We hold a National Insititutes of Health (NIH) Master Contract for the newest anti-seizure medication trials and participate in the ongoing pharmaceutical drug trials for experimental medical therapies. Additionally, our center participates in clinical trials for neurostimulation implant therapies.
* Movement Disorders Program- Henry Ford's Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program has three decades of experience in the medical and surgical management of movement disorders. With three fellowship-trained neurologists and two neurosurgeons, our movement disorders practice follows several thousand Parkinson disease patients and carries out several hundred botulinum toxin procedures annually. Our surgical program was the first in Michigan to perform microelectrode-guided deep brain stimulation and the first in Michigan to place DBS electrodes using the ClearPoint system from MRI Interventions with intraoperative MRI. The Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program is a national leader in clinical trials for new treatments. As a founding member of the Parkinson Study Group, we continue to be an active member in this and other academic consortia for research activities. Continuing interests of this program also include participation in pharmaceutical development and other aspects of translational research (including clinical trials and investigation into biomarkers, neuroimaging, and mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders).
* ALS Clinic- Henry Ford's ALS clinic is one of only 24 clinics in the U.S. recognized by the National ALS Association for providing an exemplary level of diagnostic services and care to afflicted patients. The ALS clinic at Henry Ford has carried this national ALS designation for decades, helping more than 1,000 patients and their families. As one of the busiest ALS clinics in Michigan, ALS patients treated at Henry Ford have the advantage of expert diagnosis, early therapeutic intervention, the choice to participate in the newest clinical trials, and ongoing care in a multidisciplinary team setting for the highest quality of daily life.
* Multiple Sclerosis and Myasthenia Gravis Program- Henry Ford's multiple sclerosis (MS) and myasthenia gravis (MG) programs have been designated as sites for comprehensive care and advanced research for the diseases by the National MS and MG Societies, respectively. More than 1,000 MS patients and close to 400 MG patients are followed each year at the Henry Ford Neurodegenerative Diseases Center.
* Division of Neuromuscular Disease- Henry Ford's electromyography (EMG) laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and provides expertise in single-fiber EMG. Neurologists perform more than 5,000 EMG studies on patients each year for adult and pediatric patients with a wide spectrum of neuromuscular disease.
* Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Cognitive Disorders- The memory clinic at Henry Ford specializes in multidisciplinary care for patients afflicted with cognitive impairment. State-of-the-art diagnostic studies at Henry Ford include the Consortium to Establish Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) and dementia-specific speech and occupational therapy tests of brain function, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and genetic tests.
* Division of Research- The Department of Neurology has a strong history of research with a focus on translational research to fast track scientific discovery from bench to bedside. In fact scientists and physicians at HF were involved in the seminal tPA clinical trial, the results of which were published in NEJM in 1995 and considered to be a top-ten most important publication in the history of the journal. Presently, the department has 18 scientists and 10 physicians engaged in over 80 active studies with $5.88 million in external research funding. Scientists at Henry Ford have been engaged in stroke research since the 1980s and more recently have pioneered the field of neurorestoration research. This research seeks to develop new drug and cell therapies that work to remodel the brain and spinal cord after injury from disease. Clinical trials for the treatment of stroke, brain injury and neurodegenerative disease based on many of the discoveries of this internationally-recognized research program are being conducted worldwide.
* Neurology Educational Program- As a training hospital affiliated with Wayne State University School of Medicine, the Department of Neurology at Henry Ford currently hosts over 100 Wayne State 3rd year medical students for their one month core neurology rotation. In addition, we have elective medical student rotations for 3rd and 4th year medical students. The Neurology residency program is an ACGME approved categorical training program (with continued accreditation status) with 6 residents per year, for a total of 24 neurology residents. Residents spend most of their first year of training in internal medicine and emergency medicine, but have 2 months of neurology rotations in the second half of the year. During their PGY2-4 years, residents spend time in inpatient (floors, consults, NICU and night float) and outpatient neurology. They spend 2 of their 3 required pediatric neurology months at Children's Hospital of Michigan. Their psychiatry month is completed at Kingswood Hospital. Residents have 11.5 months of choice in their rotations between “neuroselectives” (adult neurology electives) and “electives” that can be within or outside the neurology department. We have scheduled didactic sessions on a daily basis throughout the year. The education program also has ACGME accredited fellowships in Vascular Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology. There are UCNS accredited fellowships in Neurocritical Care, Neuro-oncology and Behavioral Neurology. There are non-accredited fellowships in Movement Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis.
Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute
The Neuroscience Institute was established in 1996 to bring together teams of physicians and scientists to continuously improve treatment for patients with neurological diseases through clinical collaboration and innovative research partnerships. The institute is led by the Chairs of the Department of Neurology and the Department of Neurosurgery, serving as Co-Directors. Included in the institute are the Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Pathology. The Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute has been ranked among the top 10% of the 150 neuroscience centers nationwide and is one of eight members of the Neuroscience Strategic Advisory Board, a national collaborative started in 2012 by Medtronic, Inc.
Since its inception, the Neuroscience Institute has received $185 million in research funding. Scientists and physicians have been part of an NIH Stroke Center as well as an NCI Brain Tumor Center for the past 20 years, and HF is currently an NIH Neurorestoration Research Center. There are currently over 180 clinical trials underway in total in the neurosciences.
Henry Ford Health System
Founded by auto pioneer Henry Ford in 1915, Henry Ford Hospital was located at what was then the edge of the city of Detroit at Hamilton and West Grand Boulevards. Today the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems, an approximately $4.5 billion organization with over 23,000 employees. It provides health insurance and health care delivery, including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by excellence in research and education. HFHS is committed to improving the health and well-being of diverse communities throughout southeastern Michigan and to serving patients who come to its physicians and facilities from across the region, nation, and abroad.
HFHS is a not-for-profit corporation managed by Chief Executive Officer Nancy M. Schlichting and governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees, with advisory and affiliate boards comprising 151 trustee volunteer leaders who provide vital links to the communities served by the system. In 2011, HFHS was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and the system continues to innovate in the management of the cost and quality of health care delivery.
HFHS delivers care through its hospitals, medical centers and the Henry Ford Medical Group, with over 30 practice sites in southeast Michigan, in addition to 2,000 affiliated private-practice physicians. The system's flagship institution, Henry Ford Hospital (HFH), is an 877-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex in Detroit's New Center area. The hospital is recognized for clinical excellence and innovation, particularly in the fields of neurosurgery and neurology as well as cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, orthopaedics and sports medicine, organ transplantation, and treatments for brain, prostate, breast and lung cancers. HFH is a Level 1 trauma center.
The other hospitals within the health system are as follows:
* Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital– This is the Henry Ford Health System's newest hospital, located in West Bloomfield and opened in 2009 with 191 all-private beds and additional beds planned. This community hospital offers comprehensive medical care, including 24-hour emergency care, sophisticated neurological and neurosurgical care, women's and children's health and orthopaedics, integrated with wellness, complementary therapies, and prevention programs in a suburban setting dedicated to creating a healing environment.
* Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals – Delivering comprehensive, advanced care to Macomb County residents, 349-bed Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township is recognized for high-quality, 24-hour emergency care, stroke and chest pain centers, and comprehensive cancer, women's, orthopaedic and cardiovascular care. The 86-bed Henry Ford Macomb-Mt. Clemens Campus provides inpatient, outpatient and emergency psychiatric services; and health centers in Bruce, Chesterfield, Shelby and Washington townships, Fraser and Richmond offer a variety of outpatient and primary care services.
* Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital– A 401-bed acute care hospital serving the Downriver and western Wayne County communities, it offers a full range of clinical services, including general medicine, surgery, a birthing center, and 24-hour emergency care. HFWH also provides neurosurgical services as well as physical medicine, rehabilitation, and adult mental health. The Henry Ford Health Center-Brownstown offers medical imaging, ambulatory surgery, 24-hour emergency care, a sleep lab and other services.
* Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital– A 100-bed hospital in Ferndale offering inpatient care and 24-hour intake for child, adolescent and adult patients with acute episodes of mental illness as well as dual diagnosis. Kingswood Hospital is a part of Henry Ford Behavioral Health Services, which also incorporates the Maplegrove Center, the Department of Psychiatry, and a network of outpatient centers throughout southeast Michigan.
Other specialized medical facilities within HFHS include:
* Neuroscience Institute– One of the top programs in the country, that includes a National Institutes of Health stroke care and research center, a comprehensive epilepsy and Parkinson's disease treatment and surgery program, one of the largest neurosurgery spine programs in Michigan, and the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center. New MRI technology gives the neurosurgeons enhanced imaging scans before and during operations to remove tumors.
* Heart & Vascular Institute – A leader and innovator in comprehensive care, research and education in the cardiovascular arena, offering one of the nation's largest and most successful heart failure and transplant programs; specialties include electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, rehabilitation, cardiac and vascular surgery and preventive services such as Heart Smart® education.
* Josephine Ford Cancer Institute– One of the largest cancer institutes in the state, providing a variety of services at six treatment facilities throughout southeast Michigan, including the Henry Ford Novalis® Shaped Beam Surgery Program, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and a patient-focused, coordinated surgical oncology program and patient support groups.
* Maplegrove Center– A nationally recognized center for chemical dependency services treating adults, adolescents and their families on the campus of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. Maplegrove offers a continuum of clinical care options including residential treatment, day treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, early intervention services and community education.
* Orthopaedic Surgery– Team doctors for the Detroit Lions, members of the department care for patients with a variety of bone and joint ailments, including osteoporosis, and provide the latest advances in joint replacement. A motion analysis lab allows researchers to analyze how bones and joints work together following injury, and the sports concussion clinic specializes in evaluating and treating athletes who suffer a concussion.
* Transplant Institute– This Institute provides transplantation of the liver, kidney, pancreas, intestine, lung, heart and bone marrow stem cell. It is the most comprehensive multi-organ transplant program in Michigan, and providers employ aggressive strategies to increase transplants off the waiting list while maintaining superior patient outcomes.
* Vattikuti Urology Institute– One of the leading prostate cancer programs in the world, where patients have access to some of the most innovative technology and treatment options. Surgeons here perform more laparoscopic procedures using robotic technology for treating prostate cancer than in any other center in the world – more than 5,500 to date.
In total the Henry Ford Health System operates nine emergency departments; thirty-three multispecialty ambulatory care centers; affiliated physician practices; extensive research and education; the Health Alliance Plan, providing health coverage to companies and individuals; and 91 community care operations including outpatient behavioral health, nursing homes, hospices, dialysis centers, and a broad range of retail operations offering services such as optometry and home medical products. The 140 sites with HFHS facilities serve a diverse community spread throughout a three-county region in southeast Michigan encompassing Detroit and its suburbs, in addition to referrals from across the state, region, country, and the globe.
More than 200 medical specialists and research scientists, including 80 full-time PhD researchers, are involved in several hundred individual research projects investigating high blood pressure, heart failure, cancer biology, neurosciences such as stroke and brain tumors, bone and joint diseases, immunology and MRI imaging. Also, research is ongoing in public health sciences, outcomes, health and healthcare research, and more than 1,800 ongoing clinical research projects. Research includes basic science studies, translational (bench to bed-side) research, clinical research/clinical trials, and population studies that focus on causes of diseases, disease screening, prevention and management, health economics and health outcomes. About $60 million in annual funding is received from external sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other governmental sources, and businesses and private foundations. HFHS ranks in the top 20% of all institutions granted funding by the NIH and, ranks first in Michigan for NIH-research funding for non-university based health care systems.
Henry Ford Hospital began a relationship with Wayne State University in 2002, and the Health System has been expanding upon it ever since. In 2010, HFHS signed an affiliation agreement with Wayne State that increased the number of Wayne State medical students training in Henry Ford facilities, encouraged more collaborative research, and co-branded some physician residency and fellowship programs. Members of the Henry Ford Medical Group have clinical and basic science faculty appointments at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Health Alliance Plan (HAP) is a nonprofit, regional health plan based in Detroit and a subsidiary of the Henry Ford Health System. HAP provides health coverage to more than 670,000 members and to companies of all sizes. For more than 50 years, HAP has partnered with leading doctors and hospitals, employers and community organizations to improve the health and well-being of its members. HAP offers a product portfolio with six distinct product lines: Group Insured Commercial, Individual, Medicare, Medicaid, Self-Funded and Network Leasing. HAP delivers award-winning preventive services, disease management, wellness programs and personalized customer service. The National Committee for Quality Assurance has awarded HAP's commercial HMO and HAP Senior Plus Excellent Accreditation.
In June of 2010, the Henry Ford Physicians Network (HFPN), a physician-led subsidiary of HFHS, was established. HFPN is an accountable care organization with significant representation and participation by private practice and hospital-employed physicians, as well as the Henry Ford Medical Group. HFPN physicians are able to maintain their current practice structure and business model while participating in an innovative physician-directed organization that will help to demonstrate quality and efficiency to payers, patients and employers. The network uses coordination and cooperation between physicians to ensure patient quality, measure results, remove barriers to the coordination of patient care and utilize appropriate technology.
Henry Ford Medical Group
The Henry Ford Medical Group (HFMG)staffs Henry Ford Hospital and 30 Henry Ford medical centers, located in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. HFMG also accounts for a large portion of the medical staff at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, and some HFMG physicians are on staff at other Henry Ford hospitals. Three of the medical centers provide 24-hour emergency care as well as ambulatory surgery and are primary care stroke centers. HFMG trains more than 700 students and residents each year and conducts more than $55 million in biomedical research.
Founded in 1915 after consultations with physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Mayo Clinic, the Henry Ford Medical Group has established itself as one of the premier group practices in the nation. HFMG's large academic enterprise places them in the top three of traditionally independent group practices through:
* Clinical Care: The breadth and depth of the Henry Ford Medical Group's clinical services is unparalleled by any other independent academic medical center. Their scale and scope are in the 99th percentile of all group practices, with visit volumes larger than most group practices. They are national leaders in primary care with expertise in preventive care services as well as the health management of senior citizens. The Medical Group's specialty Centers of Excellence, such as in neurological diseases, are national leaders as well, providing advanced tertiary and quaternary care with a focus on discovery and innovation;
* Education:One-third of all physicians in Michigan received training at Henry Ford, with the post-graduate medical education enterprise among the largest in the country; and,
* Research: With over $60M in external funding, Henry Ford ranks 4th in the state of Michigan in the size of its biomedical research enterprise, exceeded only by the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University.
The Henry Ford Medical Group is among the best organized in the country. HFMG's self-governed, employed physician practice program has been copied by many others because of its success even through the toughest economic times. Highly talented physicians are attracted to become part of the Henry Ford Medical Group from sixty countries around the globe because HFMG provides physicians the independence to pursue advanced clinical care while undertaking research as well as academic educational initiatives.
For nearly 100 years now the Henry Ford Medical Group has fostered advancement in patient care, research, and education while encouraging innovation in technology and patient care processes both in the outpatient and hospital settings. For these reasons Henry Ford Medical Group physicians are consistently selected by their physician peers as “top doctors” in various local and national published surveys and chosen to lead national and state medical organizations. Henry Ford Hospital has more physicians listed as “Top Docs” than any other hospital in metropolitan Detroit in the book America's Top Doctors.
Responsibilities
The Department of Neurology has a history of not only growth and excellence in clinical care, teaching, and research, but also of stability and vision on the part of its chairs. Since the department was established, only five individuals have held the position of chairman.
The new Chair of the Department of Neurology will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Henry Ford Medical Group. He or she will also participate in governance of the Henry Ford Medical Group as a member of the Chairs' Council. In addition to leading the Department of Neurology, the Chair will also be responsible for the following:
* Co-Director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute
* Neurology Service Chief at Henry Ford Hospital
* Direct Education and Research for the Department of Neurology
* System Integration of Care and Coverage with Innovation
* Professional Performance Oversight in Area of Specialty
* System Leadership in Area of Specialty
Qualifications:
Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate:
* Will be a physician licensable in the state of Michigan with current certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
* Have a reputation as an outstanding, highly respected clinician with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills;
* Highly regarded nationally within the neurological community and in the neurosciences broadly with an accomplished record of research and scholarship;
* Demonstrated success managing a budget;
* Fundraising experience a plus;
* Prior operational experience leading groups of physicians, researchers and health care staff;
* Broad and deep experience within an academic health system or other environment where patient care, academic research and educational training are pursued with rigor;
* Ideally worked in an integrated health system and demonstrated the ability to build relationships and work effectively with other clinical departments and with community physicians and surgeons, particularly in the development and management of a regional system of neurological care;
* An understanding of the ethics and cross-disciplinary nature of medical group practice;
* Committed to the mission of medical education and particularly graduate medical education; dedicated to maintaining a positive culture and environment for residents with an understanding of the evolving trends in graduate medical education, including the ACGME's Next Accreditation System and milestone development and implementation;
* Record of achievement in research as a funded researcher and a developer of a successful research program involving others, ideally including translational and outcomes research;
* An understanding of the transformation occurring in health care delivery and financing from volume-based to value-based reimbursement and of the role of the neurosciences and neurological care in that transition to population-based health care; and
* A commitment to continuously improving the quality of care delivery, including the level of customer service to patients and to referring physicians.
Leadership and Management Competencies
* Can create a compelling vision for the future to align faculty and staff;
* Ability to mentor, develop, inspire and lead physicians and staff, establishing a culture of accountability and teamwork;
* Effective relationship builder both inside and outside the organization with the ability to inspire collaboration across departments;
* Maintains an organizational focus, as opposed to purely departmental or personal;
* Capable of working effectively in the face of ambiguity;
* Strength in operational leadership;
* Has fiscal discipline and can manage and balance operating and capital budgets in the context of departmental and larger organizational goals;
* High degree of emotional intelligence with well-developed listening and communication skills;
* Able to identify, recruit, and retain strong physicians, researchers, and staff;
* Effective leader of organizational change while being sensitive to organizational culture;
* Collaborative team member as well as leader, with an ability to shape excellent, high-performing teams;
* Decisive leader, but also one who respects process and the importance of consensus building in matrix organizations such as academic health centers and medical groups.
Personal Characteristics
* Embodies professionalism with a high degree of integrity;
* High energy and drive;
* Highly collaborative and collegial spirit;
* Enthusiastic and engaging personality with strong interpersonal skills;
* Innovative;
* Optimistic, inspires and sustains high morale;
* Approachable; and,
* Able to engender trust and respect both inside the organization and outside with key stakeholders.
Benefits:
* Salary is competitive and benefits include fully paid malpractice with tail coverage, specialty specific long-term disability and affordable family health benefits.
* Physicians are linked through a unique “i-Phone” network and enjoy the use of the EPIC electronic medical record, with on-line access to radiographs, and electronic prescribing system.
* A collaborative work environment focused on integrated patient care
* The ability to be involved in teaching of medical students, residents and fellows and, for those who qualify, an academic appointment at affiliated WayneStateUniversity
* Relocation allowance is available to those who qualify.
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer
Henry Ford Health System is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and Genetic Information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws..
Requisition #: 100394
Status: Full-Time with Full-Time Benefits (40 Hours)
Business Unit: HF Medical Group
Shift: Days
Department: Neurology
Weekends: Yes
Job Family: Doctor
Job Function: Physicians
Campus/Job Location: Henry Ford Hospital Detroit Campus
Location (State/City): US-MI-Detroit
More information about this position
Overview:
The Henry Ford Health System, one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems, seeks a new Chair to lead the Department of Neurology.
The Henry Ford Department of Neurology, which is currently staffed by 35 neurologists and more than 25 Ph.D. members, offers a broad spectrum of neurological services, each backed by strong teaching and research programs to provide patients with the most up to date advances in diagnosis and treatment. Our faculty treats more than 35,000 patients across all subspecialties in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. The department also works in close collaboration with eight other departments in the nationally recognized Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute. Members of the Department of Neurology have formed teams of nationally recognized clinicians and researchers in the following areas of expertise:
* Division of Stroke- The Harris Stroke and Neurovascular Center at Henry Ford provides comprehensive care with a focus on rapid diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke to save lives and prevent disability. Henry Ford's stroke team treats 1,400 patients with acute stroke annually and partners with the Center for Cerebrovascular Surgery and Neurocritical Care to offer the complete ranges of therapies: medical, interventional and surgical, as well as advanced clinical trials. Henry Ford neuroscience specialists in stroke and stroke research are the only investigators in the U.S. to be designated as both a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Center and an NIH Neurorestoration Research Center. Henry Ford's stroke team served as the national coordinating center for the original tPA study and as lead authors of the landmark publication, which recently was voted among the top nine research articles published in the 200-year history of The New England Journal of Medicine.
* Division of Neurocritical Care- Henry Ford has one of the most comprehensive neurointensivist programs in the country, also the largest in Michigan, annually treating more than 1,300 patients with critical neurological issues. The neurointensive team monitors patients following therapies for cerebrovascular diseases as well as other neurosurgical or neurological interventions, and treats the complete range of brain and spine injury conditions. As leaders in the field of neurocritical care, our team participates in NIH clinical trials and other studies to advance research and find new therapies to restore brain function.
* Division of Epilepsy- With nine fellowship-trained neurologists, including two pediatric neurologists, and two neurosurgeons, Henry Ford's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center has over 20 years of experience in the medical and surgical management of epilepsy. Henry Ford's epilepsy team is one of the largest and most active medically and surgically in the Midwest, offering the most advanced medical therapy, surgical therapy, and neurostimulation implant therapies. Our busy clinical practice completes over 4,000 epilepsy visits and 3,000 EEGs annually. Recognized by the National Associations of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) as a Level 4 epilepsy center, our two state-of-the-art EMUs admit almost 300 patients per year. Additionally, Henry Ford Hospital has one of 29 magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain imaging systems in the country. As an academic program, the Henry Ford Epilepsy Center is active in clinical trials and epilepsy research. We hold a National Insititutes of Health (NIH) Master Contract for the newest anti-seizure medication trials and participate in the ongoing pharmaceutical drug trials for experimental medical therapies. Additionally, our center participates in clinical trials for neurostimulation implant therapies.
* Movement Disorders Program- Henry Ford's Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program has three decades of experience in the medical and surgical management of movement disorders. With three fellowship-trained neurologists and two neurosurgeons, our movement disorders practice follows several thousand Parkinson disease patients and carries out several hundred botulinum toxin procedures annually. Our surgical program was the first in Michigan to perform microelectrode-guided deep brain stimulation and the first in Michigan to place DBS electrodes using the ClearPoint system from MRI Interventions with intraoperative MRI. The Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program is a national leader in clinical trials for new treatments. As a founding member of the Parkinson Study Group, we continue to be an active member in this and other academic consortia for research activities. Continuing interests of this program also include participation in pharmaceutical development and other aspects of translational research (including clinical trials and investigation into biomarkers, neuroimaging, and mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders).
* ALS Clinic- Henry Ford's ALS clinic is one of only 24 clinics in the U.S. recognized by the National ALS Association for providing an exemplary level of diagnostic services and care to afflicted patients. The ALS clinic at Henry Ford has carried this national ALS designation for decades, helping more than 1,000 patients and their families. As one of the busiest ALS clinics in Michigan, ALS patients treated at Henry Ford have the advantage of expert diagnosis, early therapeutic intervention, the choice to participate in the newest clinical trials, and ongoing care in a multidisciplinary team setting for the highest quality of daily life.
* Multiple Sclerosis and Myasthenia Gravis Program- Henry Ford's multiple sclerosis (MS) and myasthenia gravis (MG) programs have been designated as sites for comprehensive care and advanced research for the diseases by the National MS and MG Societies, respectively. More than 1,000 MS patients and close to 400 MG patients are followed each year at the Henry Ford Neurodegenerative Diseases Center.
* Division of Neuromuscular Disease- Henry Ford's electromyography (EMG) laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and provides expertise in single-fiber EMG. Neurologists perform more than 5,000 EMG studies on patients each year for adult and pediatric patients with a wide spectrum of neuromuscular disease.
* Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Cognitive Disorders- The memory clinic at Henry Ford specializes in multidisciplinary care for patients afflicted with cognitive impairment. State-of-the-art diagnostic studies at Henry Ford include the Consortium to Establish Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) and dementia-specific speech and occupational therapy tests of brain function, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and genetic tests.
* Division of Research- The Department of Neurology has a strong history of research with a focus on translational research to fast track scientific discovery from bench to bedside. In fact scientists and physicians at HF were involved in the seminal tPA clinical trial, the results of which were published in NEJM in 1995 and considered to be a top-ten most important publication in the history of the journal. Presently, the department has 18 scientists and 10 physicians engaged in over 80 active studies with $5.88 million in external research funding. Scientists at Henry Ford have been engaged in stroke research since the 1980s and more recently have pioneered the field of neurorestoration research. This research seeks to develop new drug and cell therapies that work to remodel the brain and spinal cord after injury from disease. Clinical trials for the treatment of stroke, brain injury and neurodegenerative disease based on many of the discoveries of this internationally-recognized research program are being conducted worldwide.
* Neurology Educational Program- As a training hospital affiliated with Wayne State University School of Medicine, the Department of Neurology at Henry Ford currently hosts over 100 Wayne State 3rd year medical students for their one month core neurology rotation. In addition, we have elective medical student rotations for 3rd and 4th year medical students. The Neurology residency program is an ACGME approved categorical training program (with continued accreditation status) with 6 residents per year, for a total of 24 neurology residents. Residents spend most of their first year of training in internal medicine and emergency medicine, but have 2 months of neurology rotations in the second half of the year. During their PGY2-4 years, residents spend time in inpatient (floors, consults, NICU and night float) and outpatient neurology. They spend 2 of their 3 required pediatric neurology months at Children's Hospital of Michigan. Their psychiatry month is completed at Kingswood Hospital. Residents have 11.5 months of choice in their rotations between “neuroselectives” (adult neurology electives) and “electives” that can be within or outside the neurology department. We have scheduled didactic sessions on a daily basis throughout the year. The education program also has ACGME accredited fellowships in Vascular Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology. There are UCNS accredited fellowships in Neurocritical Care, Neuro-oncology and Behavioral Neurology. There are non-accredited fellowships in Movement Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis.
Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute
The Neuroscience Institute was established in 1996 to bring together teams of physicians and scientists to continuously improve treatment for patients with neurological diseases through clinical collaboration and innovative research partnerships. The institute is led by the Chairs of the Department of Neurology and the Department of Neurosurgery, serving as Co-Directors. Included in the institute are the Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Pathology. The Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute has been ranked among the top 10% of the 150 neuroscience centers nationwide and is one of eight members of the Neuroscience Strategic Advisory Board, a national collaborative started in 2012 by Medtronic, Inc.
Since its inception, the Neuroscience Institute has received $185 million in research funding. Scientists and physicians have been part of an NIH Stroke Center as well as an NCI Brain Tumor Center for the past 20 years, and HF is currently an NIH Neurorestoration Research Center. There are currently over 180 clinical trials underway in total in the neurosciences.
Henry Ford Health System
Founded by auto pioneer Henry Ford in 1915, Henry Ford Hospital was located at what was then the edge of the city of Detroit at Hamilton and West Grand Boulevards. Today the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems, an approximately $4.5 billion organization with over 23,000 employees. It provides health insurance and health care delivery, including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by excellence in research and education. HFHS is committed to improving the health and well-being of diverse communities throughout southeastern Michigan and to serving patients who come to its physicians and facilities from across the region, nation, and abroad.
HFHS is a not-for-profit corporation managed by Chief Executive Officer Nancy M. Schlichting and governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees, with advisory and affiliate boards comprising 151 trustee volunteer leaders who provide vital links to the communities served by the system. In 2011, HFHS was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and the system continues to innovate in the management of the cost and quality of health care delivery.
HFHS delivers care through its hospitals, medical centers and the Henry Ford Medical Group, with over 30 practice sites in southeast Michigan, in addition to 2,000 affiliated private-practice physicians. The system's flagship institution, Henry Ford Hospital (HFH), is an 877-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex in Detroit's New Center area. The hospital is recognized for clinical excellence and innovation, particularly in the fields of neurosurgery and neurology as well as cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, orthopaedics and sports medicine, organ transplantation, and treatments for brain, prostate, breast and lung cancers. HFH is a Level 1 trauma center.
The other hospitals within the health system are as follows:
* Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital– This is the Henry Ford Health System's newest hospital, located in West Bloomfield and opened in 2009 with 191 all-private beds and additional beds planned. This community hospital offers comprehensive medical care, including 24-hour emergency care, sophisticated neurological and neurosurgical care, women's and children's health and orthopaedics, integrated with wellness, complementary therapies, and prevention programs in a suburban setting dedicated to creating a healing environment.
* Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals – Delivering comprehensive, advanced care to Macomb County residents, 349-bed Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township is recognized for high-quality, 24-hour emergency care, stroke and chest pain centers, and comprehensive cancer, women's, orthopaedic and cardiovascular care. The 86-bed Henry Ford Macomb-Mt. Clemens Campus provides inpatient, outpatient and emergency psychiatric services; and health centers in Bruce, Chesterfield, Shelby and Washington townships, Fraser and Richmond offer a variety of outpatient and primary care services.
* Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital– A 401-bed acute care hospital serving the Downriver and western Wayne County communities, it offers a full range of clinical services, including general medicine, surgery, a birthing center, and 24-hour emergency care. HFWH also provides neurosurgical services as well as physical medicine, rehabilitation, and adult mental health. The Henry Ford Health Center-Brownstown offers medical imaging, ambulatory surgery, 24-hour emergency care, a sleep lab and other services.
* Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital– A 100-bed hospital in Ferndale offering inpatient care and 24-hour intake for child, adolescent and adult patients with acute episodes of mental illness as well as dual diagnosis. Kingswood Hospital is a part of Henry Ford Behavioral Health Services, which also incorporates the Maplegrove Center, the Department of Psychiatry, and a network of outpatient centers throughout southeast Michigan.
Other specialized medical facilities within HFHS include:
* Neuroscience Institute– One of the top programs in the country, that includes a National Institutes of Health stroke care and research center, a comprehensive epilepsy and Parkinson's disease treatment and surgery program, one of the largest neurosurgery spine programs in Michigan, and the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center. New MRI technology gives the neurosurgeons enhanced imaging scans before and during operations to remove tumors.
* Heart & Vascular Institute – A leader and innovator in comprehensive care, research and education in the cardiovascular arena, offering one of the nation's largest and most successful heart failure and transplant programs; specialties include electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, rehabilitation, cardiac and vascular surgery and preventive services such as Heart Smart® education.
* Josephine Ford Cancer Institute– One of the largest cancer institutes in the state, providing a variety of services at six treatment facilities throughout southeast Michigan, including the Henry Ford Novalis® Shaped Beam Surgery Program, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and a patient-focused, coordinated surgical oncology program and patient support groups.
* Maplegrove Center– A nationally recognized center for chemical dependency services treating adults, adolescents and their families on the campus of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. Maplegrove offers a continuum of clinical care options including residential treatment, day treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, early intervention services and community education.
* Orthopaedic Surgery– Team doctors for the Detroit Lions, members of the department care for patients with a variety of bone and joint ailments, including osteoporosis, and provide the latest advances in joint replacement. A motion analysis lab allows researchers to analyze how bones and joints work together following injury, and the sports concussion clinic specializes in evaluating and treating athletes who suffer a concussion.
* Transplant Institute– This Institute provides transplantation of the liver, kidney, pancreas, intestine, lung, heart and bone marrow stem cell. It is the most comprehensive multi-organ transplant program in Michigan, and providers employ aggressive strategies to increase transplants off the waiting list while maintaining superior patient outcomes.
* Vattikuti Urology Institute– One of the leading prostate cancer programs in the world, where patients have access to some of the most innovative technology and treatment options. Surgeons here perform more laparoscopic procedures using robotic technology for treating prostate cancer than in any other center in the world – more than 5,500 to date.
In total the Henry Ford Health System operates nine emergency departments; thirty-three multispecialty ambulatory care centers; affiliated physician practices; extensive research and education; the Health Alliance Plan, providing health coverage to companies and individuals; and 91 community care operations including outpatient behavioral health, nursing homes, hospices, dialysis centers, and a broad range of retail operations offering services such as optometry and home medical products. The 140 sites with HFHS facilities serve a diverse community spread throughout a three-county region in southeast Michigan encompassing Detroit and its suburbs, in addition to referrals from across the state, region, country, and the globe.
More than 200 medical specialists and research scientists, including 80 full-time PhD researchers, are involved in several hundred individual research projects investigating high blood pressure, heart failure, cancer biology, neurosciences such as stroke and brain tumors, bone and joint diseases, immunology and MRI imaging. Also, research is ongoing in public health sciences, outcomes, health and healthcare research, and more than 1,800 ongoing clinical research projects. Research includes basic science studies, translational (bench to bed-side) research, clinical research/clinical trials, and population studies that focus on causes of diseases, disease screening, prevention and management, health economics and health outcomes. About $60 million in annual funding is received from external sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other governmental sources, and businesses and private foundations. HFHS ranks in the top 20% of all institutions granted funding by the NIH and, ranks first in Michigan for NIH-research funding for non-university based health care systems.
Henry Ford Hospital began a relationship with Wayne State University in 2002, and the Health System has been expanding upon it ever since. In 2010, HFHS signed an affiliation agreement with Wayne State that increased the number of Wayne State medical students training in Henry Ford facilities, encouraged more collaborative research, and co-branded some physician residency and fellowship programs. Members of the Henry Ford Medical Group have clinical and basic science faculty appointments at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Health Alliance Plan (HAP) is a nonprofit, regional health plan based in Detroit and a subsidiary of the Henry Ford Health System. HAP provides health coverage to more than 670,000 members and to companies of all sizes. For more than 50 years, HAP has partnered with leading doctors and hospitals, employers and community organizations to improve the health and well-being of its members. HAP offers a product portfolio with six distinct product lines: Group Insured Commercial, Individual, Medicare, Medicaid, Self-Funded and Network Leasing. HAP delivers award-winning preventive services, disease management, wellness programs and personalized customer service. The National Committee for Quality Assurance has awarded HAP's commercial HMO and HAP Senior Plus Excellent Accreditation.
In June of 2010, the Henry Ford Physicians Network (HFPN), a physician-led subsidiary of HFHS, was established. HFPN is an accountable care organization with significant representation and participation by private practice and hospital-employed physicians, as well as the Henry Ford Medical Group. HFPN physicians are able to maintain their current practice structure and business model while participating in an innovative physician-directed organization that will help to demonstrate quality and efficiency to payers, patients and employers. The network uses coordination and cooperation between physicians to ensure patient quality, measure results, remove barriers to the coordination of patient care and utilize appropriate technology.
Henry Ford Medical Group
The Henry Ford Medical Group (HFMG)staffs Henry Ford Hospital and 30 Henry Ford medical centers, located in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. HFMG also accounts for a large portion of the medical staff at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, and some HFMG physicians are on staff at other Henry Ford hospitals. Three of the medical centers provide 24-hour emergency care as well as ambulatory surgery and are primary care stroke centers. HFMG trains more than 700 students and residents each year and conducts more than $55 million in biomedical research.
Founded in 1915 after consultations with physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Mayo Clinic, the Henry Ford Medical Group has established itself as one of the premier group practices in the nation. HFMG's large academic enterprise places them in the top three of traditionally independent group practices through:
* Clinical Care: The breadth and depth of the Henry Ford Medical Group's clinical services is unparalleled by any other independent academic medical center. Their scale and scope are in the 99th percentile of all group practices, with visit volumes larger than most group practices. They are national leaders in primary care with expertise in preventive care services as well as the health management of senior citizens. The Medical Group's specialty Centers of Excellence, such as in neurological diseases, are national leaders as well, providing advanced tertiary and quaternary care with a focus on discovery and innovation;
* Education:One-third of all physicians in Michigan received training at Henry Ford, with the post-graduate medical education enterprise among the largest in the country; and,
* Research: With over $60M in external funding, Henry Ford ranks 4th in the state of Michigan in the size of its biomedical research enterprise, exceeded only by the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University.
The Henry Ford Medical Group is among the best organized in the country. HFMG's self-governed, employed physician practice program has been copied by many others because of its success even through the toughest economic times. Highly talented physicians are attracted to become part of the Henry Ford Medical Group from sixty countries around the globe because HFMG provides physicians the independence to pursue advanced clinical care while undertaking research as well as academic educational initiatives.
For nearly 100 years now the Henry Ford Medical Group has fostered advancement in patient care, research, and education while encouraging innovation in technology and patient care processes both in the outpatient and hospital settings. For these reasons Henry Ford Medical Group physicians are consistently selected by their physician peers as “top doctors” in various local and national published surveys and chosen to lead national and state medical organizations. Henry Ford Hospital has more physicians listed as “Top Docs” than any other hospital in metropolitan Detroit in the book America's Top Doctors.
Responsibilities
The Department of Neurology has a history of not only growth and excellence in clinical care, teaching, and research, but also of stability and vision on the part of its chairs. Since the department was established, only five individuals have held the position of chairman.
The new Chair of the Department of Neurology will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the Henry Ford Medical Group. He or she will also participate in governance of the Henry Ford Medical Group as a member of the Chairs' Council. In addition to leading the Department of Neurology, the Chair will also be responsible for the following:
* Co-Director of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute
* Neurology Service Chief at Henry Ford Hospital
* Direct Education and Research for the Department of Neurology
* System Integration of Care and Coverage with Innovation
* Professional Performance Oversight in Area of Specialty
* System Leadership in Area of Specialty
Qualifications:
Qualifications and Experience
The ideal candidate:
* Will be a physician licensable in the state of Michigan with current certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
* Have a reputation as an outstanding, highly respected clinician with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills;
* Highly regarded nationally within the neurological community and in the neurosciences broadly with an accomplished record of research and scholarship;
* Demonstrated success managing a budget;
* Fundraising experience a plus;
* Prior operational experience leading groups of physicians, researchers and health care staff;
* Broad and deep experience within an academic health system or other environment where patient care, academic research and educational training are pursued with rigor;
* Ideally worked in an integrated health system and demonstrated the ability to build relationships and work effectively with other clinical departments and with community physicians and surgeons, particularly in the development and management of a regional system of neurological care;
* An understanding of the ethics and cross-disciplinary nature of medical group practice;
* Committed to the mission of medical education and particularly graduate medical education; dedicated to maintaining a positive culture and environment for residents with an understanding of the evolving trends in graduate medical education, including the ACGME's Next Accreditation System and milestone development and implementation;
* Record of achievement in research as a funded researcher and a developer of a successful research program involving others, ideally including translational and outcomes research;
* An understanding of the transformation occurring in health care delivery and financing from volume-based to value-based reimbursement and of the role of the neurosciences and neurological care in that transition to population-based health care; and
* A commitment to continuously improving the quality of care delivery, including the level of customer service to patients and to referring physicians.
Leadership and Management Competencies
* Can create a compelling vision for the future to align faculty and staff;
* Ability to mentor, develop, inspire and lead physicians and staff, establishing a culture of accountability and teamwork;
* Effective relationship builder both inside and outside the organization with the ability to inspire collaboration across departments;
* Maintains an organizational focus, as opposed to purely departmental or personal;
* Capable of working effectively in the face of ambiguity;
* Strength in operational leadership;
* Has fiscal discipline and can manage and balance operating and capital budgets in the context of departmental and larger organizational goals;
* High degree of emotional intelligence with well-developed listening and communication skills;
* Able to identify, recruit, and retain strong physicians, researchers, and staff;
* Effective leader of organizational change while being sensitive to organizational culture;
* Collaborative team member as well as leader, with an ability to shape excellent, high-performing teams;
* Decisive leader, but also one who respects process and the importance of consensus building in matrix organizations such as academic health centers and medical groups.
Personal Characteristics
* Embodies professionalism with a high degree of integrity;
* High energy and drive;
* Highly collaborative and collegial spirit;
* Enthusiastic and engaging personality with strong interpersonal skills;
* Innovative;
* Optimistic, inspires and sustains high morale;
* Approachable; and,
* Able to engender trust and respect both inside the organization and outside with key stakeholders.
Benefits:
* Salary is competitive and benefits include fully paid malpractice with tail coverage, specialty specific long-term disability and affordable family health benefits.
* Physicians are linked through a unique “i-Phone” network and enjoy the use of the EPIC electronic medical record, with on-line access to radiographs, and electronic prescribing system.
* A collaborative work environment focused on integrated patient care
* The ability to be involved in teaching of medical students, residents and fellows and, for those who qualify, an academic appointment at affiliated WayneStateUniversity
* Relocation allowance is available to those who qualify.
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer
Henry Ford Health System is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and Genetic Information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws..
