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Faculty in Alzheimer’s Disease

Position overview

Position title: Faculty in Alzheimer’s Disease
Salary range: The salary range for this position is $140,600 to $250,000 with the opportunity for higher earnings contingent on performance-based incentives. This position [includes/may include] membership in the Health Sciences Compensation Plan which provides for eligibility for additional compensation. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment.
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/policy-covered-october-2025-scales/t5-5.pdf
Review timeline: Candidate will be reviewed every 2 years since initial appt

Application Window

Open date: October 17, 2025

Next review date: Monday, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Friday, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

The University of California, Los Angeles invites applications for a clinical faculty position (Assistant or Associate rank in the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research (UCLA Easton Center) in the Department of Neurology. The UCLA Easton Center seeks a highly qualified clinician, clinician-scientist or scientist with an MD, PhD or MD/PhD, and a research interest in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. A particular focus is on two areas:

  1. An early to mid-career academic neurologist, neuropsychologist or scientist with an interest in or track record of longitudinal cohort human subjects research and a focus on those at risk for or with cognitive impairment or dementia
  2. An early to mid-career academic neurologist, neuropsychologist or scientist with expertise in advanced neuroimaging of individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. In this imaging area, prior work can be in any type of advanced neuroimaging including MRI, MRS, PET, or AI applications. Candidates will be eligible for a Gene and Elaine Smith Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research Endowed Term Chair in the Neurology Department in addition to scientific and research program support. The Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research (Director, Dr. Jason Hinman) is a comprehensive center focused on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The Center encompasses outpatient clinics, neuropathology and informatics cores, basic and clinical science research projects and an extensive clinical trial program under an integrated organizational structure (https://eastonad.ucla.edu/). The Center, based in the Department of Neurology, has 23 faculty spanning several School of Medicine Departments and 18 staff. The Center has clinical and research sites at the Westwood UCLA campus, the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, capturing a large and diverse patient population.

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

MD, or MD/PhD, or equivalent, board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and fellowship training in behavioral neurology

The salary range for this position is $140,600 to $250,000 with the opportunity for higher earnings contingent on performance-based incentives. This position [includes/may include] membership in the Health Sciences Compensation Plan which provides for eligibility for additional compensation. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment.
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/policy-covered-october-2025-scales/t5-5.pdf

Application procedure: Apply by submitting your application to our online RECRUIT system
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10666

Please submit the following to be considered for candidacy:

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Statement of Career Interests and Objectives in the areas of research, education and service.
  • List of 4-6 academic references

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All aspects of searches are confidential and all candidates are expected to review and abide by UC Regents Policy 1111 on Statement on Ethical Values and Standards of Conduct https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/1111.html.

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom departments or other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists’ current and prior places of employment to ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University’s Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include the signed authorization to release information with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any incomplete application, the application will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to targeted employment reference checks.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

MD, or MD/PhD, or equivalent, board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and fellowship training in behavioral neurology at time of application

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  • Cover Letter (Optional)

    • Statement of Career Interests and Objectives in the areas of research, education and service
  • Reference check authorization release form - Complete and upload the reference check authorization release form

  • UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of the state of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.

    The UCLA campus has expressed these goals in its strategic plan as follows:

    Deepen our engagement with Los Angeles
    Expand our reach as a global university
    Enhance our research and creative activities
    Elevate how we teach
    Become a more effective institution

    Prompt for candidates for recruitment:

    Reflecting on your personal and professional experiences, highlight your past contributions and future commitments to advancing UCLA's mission as embodied in the 2023-28 strategic plan. These accomplishments and ambitions may be discussed in the context of describing your teaching, scholarship, and service

Reference requirements
  • 3-5 required (contact information only)

Only references of final candidates will be contacted

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10666

Help contact: jshinn@mednet.ucla.edu

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

Job location

Los Angeles, CA