Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant

Job Summary:
Highly motivated Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to work as part of both the Movement and Cognitive Disorder teams to provide direct patient care in an outpatient Neurology setting.

The NP/PA will assess, diagnose and develop a plan of care in accordance with practice protocols in the Neurology out-patient ambulatory care setting. Responsibilities in the Movement and Cognitive Disorders Clinics include:

Movement Disorders:

1. Basic management and programming of DBS patients with essential tremor and Parkinsons disease

2. Function as a liaison between movement disorders program and functional neurosurgery program to facilitate prompt evaluation and monitoring of the presurgical evaluation and postsurgical return to the movement disorders program for programmin

3. Evaluation and management of follow ups and some new patient evaluations for tremors and other movement disorders when deemed appropriately by neurologist.