St. Jude seeks pediatric neurology faculty member for clinical care and survivorship medicine
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is recruiting a faculty-level clinician for its Division of Neurology in Memphis, a role built around pediatric neurology, inpatient and outpatient care, and a sustained clinical presence in a hospital environment that treats children with cancer and the long-term consequences of therapy. The position sits at the Assistant Member level on the clinical track and calls for a physician who can balance direct neurologic care with research collaboration, quality improvement, and education.
The opening is not a narrow bedside post. It is a hybrid role shaped by the needs of a cancer center where neurologic complications, survivorship issues, and treatment-related late effects often intersect. The successful candidate will work within a division that currently includes one full-time and two part-time neurologists, one full-time advanced nurse practitioner, and a full-time research nurse. In practical terms, the appointment adds clinical capacity while strengthening the division’s ability to move patients seamlessly between care delivery, follow-up, and institutional research.
A single neurologist in this setting is expected to do more than manage seizures, headaches, or motor concerns in isolation. At St. Jude, neurologic expertise also feeds into the follow-up of children who have survived cancer and now need long-horizon monitoring for treatment-related complications, developmental concerns, and neurocognitive or functional sequelae. The clinic structure described for this role makes that expectation explicit.
Survivorship follow-up is central to the clinical mission
One of the most distinctive components of the post is participation in the After Completion of Therapy Clinic, which provides follow-up care for eligible five-year survivors of childhood cancer treated at St. Jude. The clinic also supports multiple research initiatives focused on characterizing and improving outcomes after childhood cancer. That setting gives the new faculty member a clinical window into the late effects of cure: neurologic issues that emerge after treatment ends, not just during active therapy.
This matters because survivorship neurology occupies a different clinical rhythm than acute pediatric consultation. It requires longitudinal thinking, careful symptom attribution, and enough institutional memory to connect current findings with earlier treatment exposures. A child who survives cancer may later present with sleep disturbance, epilepsy, neurophysiologic concerns, or neurologic symptoms that sit at the boundary between oncologic history and everyday pediatric neurology. The post is designed for a physician who can work in that overlap without losing sight of either discipline.
The job description also identifies collaboration with physicians conducting clinical and basic research involving long-term childhood cancer survivors. That collaboration suggests an environment where neurologic assessment does not stop at diagnosis or symptom control. It extends into observational work, outcomes research, and the measurement of how survivors function years after therapy. In a pediatric oncology center, those questions are not academic side projects; they directly shape follow-up strategy and care planning.
The hospital is also asking for someone who can lead quality improvement initiatives to improve clinic operations. In a high-volume specialty follow-up clinic, operational improvements can affect wait times, continuity, handoffs, and the consistency of surveillance. A neurologist embedded in that system can influence not only individual patient management but also how efficiently the entire follow-up pathway functions.
Training in neuro-oncology, epilepsy, neurophysiology, or sleep medicine would fit the role well
The institution wants a candidate with a strong interest in clinical care and health outcomes research, with quality improvement as another acceptable focus. Subspecialty training is described as desirable, especially in neuro-oncology, epilepsy, neurophysiology, or sleep medicine. Those interests track closely with the clinical realities of pediatric cancer care, where neurologic disease can emerge from the cancer itself, from therapy, or from chronic survivorship needs.
A neuro-oncology background would be especially relevant in a center where neurologic care and cancer care already run on parallel tracks. Epilepsy expertise would matter for both acute and chronic seizure management in children with complex oncologic histories. Neurophysiology could strengthen diagnostic precision in patients whose symptoms require electrodiagnostic interpretation. Sleep medicine may seem adjacent, but in pediatrics it often becomes central when fatigue, treatment effects, and disrupted neurodevelopment complicate recovery.
The requirements are straightforward and specific. Candidates must hold an MD, MD/PhD, or DO degree, be board certified or board eligible in pediatric neurology, and be able to obtain a Tennessee Medical or DO license. The role is full time and permanent, with compensation listed as commensurate with experience. Those details frame the post as a long-term clinical appointment rather than a short-term recruitment placeholder.
A faculty appointment of this kind also carries teaching obligations. The successful candidate will supervise and mentor visiting medical students and residents and participate in institutional educational activities for nurses and fellows. That educational role matters in a pediatric center because neurologic expertise often needs to be distributed across teams, not concentrated in a single consult service. Nurses, trainees, and fellows all encounter neurologic issues early, and their recognition of red flags can change the trajectory of care.
The reporting line is direct to the Division Director of Neurology, placing the position within a relatively lean but research-active structure. That organizational detail suggests a setting where one faculty member can have visible influence on patient care, clinical operations, and academic development.
For pediatric neurologists who want a practice anchored in childhood cancer survivorship, this opening combines three domains that rarely align so neatly: direct clinical service, outcomes-oriented research, and the education of the next generation of clinicians. The job materials ask for a physician who can operate comfortably in all three. The clinic’s patient population makes the stakes concrete from the first day on service.