The Department of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans is seeking applicants for a board-certified/board eligible (or equivalent) Epileptologist to join the faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor (non-tenure, clinical track).

The successful candidate must be ABPN board-certified in Neurology, and board eligible/certified in the subspecialty of Epilepsy and/or Clinical Neurophysiology. This physician would be part of our growing LCMC Health Neuroscience Institute with the goal of improving neurologic care for the greater New Orleans metropolitan area.

The LCMC Health Neuroscience Institute is centered at West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, Louisiana, which is a tertiary-care facility receiving referrals from hospitals throughout the Gulf Coast. The eligible candidate will report to the Chair of the Department of Neurology and will work collaboratively with the current Epilepsy Center Director to develop the LSU Epilepsy Center within the LCMC Health Neuroscience Institute.

About LCMC Health

LCMC Health is a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system on a mission to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and to put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Treating people like family is the LCMC Health way, and it always has been.

Founded by Louisiana’s first freestanding children’s hospital, we’ve grown into a healthcare system that’s built to serve the unique needs of our communities and families across New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and beyond. Today, we offer six hospital locations:

• Children’s Hospital
• Touro Infirmary
• University Medical Center New Orleans
• New Orleans East Hospital
• East Jefferson General Hospital
• West Jefferson Medical Center

We also deliver world-class care close to home through a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area in addition to our physician practices. With over 2,200 board-certified physicians specializing in everything from head to toe, our community can count on us to provide the right care, right where they need it.

For more information, please access this fact sheet: https://www.lcmchealth.org/documents/ LCMC-Health_Fact_Sheet.pdf

About Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC)

The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans has teaching, research, and health care functions state-wide, through its six professional schools and eight Centers of Excellence, as well as the more than one hundred hospitals and other health science related institutions throughout the State, Region, Nation, and the World, with which they maintain affiliations.

LSUHSC New Orleans School of Medicine is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) until 2025-26. The LCME is the accrediting body charged by the U.S. Department of Education to ensure that medical schools meet consistent and rigorous national standard for professional education leading to the M.D. degree. All residency programs are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (AGGME).

For more information, please access this website: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/

Incentives for prospective faculty include:

• Academic Appointment as above
• Retirement Programs
• Annual Leave and Sick Leave
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Professional Society Membership reimbursement
• Relocation Services
• Negotiated Discounts for a number of telecommunication services, computers, etc.