Program Structure and Setting - Clinical Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Neuropsychology section is housed within the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute in the Department of Neurology. Fellows will be supervised by the core neuropsychology faculty and have opportunities to interact with >30 neurologists, multiple Advance Practice Providers (e.g., Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants), and many more nurses, psychometrists, research coordinators, and medical assistants. The Ochsner Neuroscience Institute also includes Neurosurgery, Neurocritical Care, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and other specialties. The fellowship will also have administrative support and oversight from the Graduate Medical Education department (GME). Brian Mizuki, Psy.D., ABPP-CN, is the Neuropsychology Section Head; Beth C. Arredondo, Ph.D., ABPP-CN and Anneliese Boettcher, Ph.D., ABPP-CN are co-directors of the postdoctoral program; Richard Zweifler, M.D., is the Chair of the Neurology Department, and Ronald Amedee, M.D., is the Designated Institutional Officer for GME.

Fellows will provide services at several of Ochsner’s campuses:

Ochsner Medical Center is located on Jefferson Highway, near Uptown New Orleans and includes acute and sub-acute facilities and centers of excellence: Ochsner Cancer Institute, Ochsner Transplant Institute and Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute. As a 767-bed acute care hospital, Ochsner Medical Center offers the opportunity to learn and provide patient care at a Magnet facility with three Centers of Excellence, all the while gaining exposure to complex medical cases. This campus is also one of six training sites in the world for robotic surgery and is nationally known for many skilled physicians.

Ochsner Neurology and Neuroscience Institute comprise the following:

• Cognitive Disorders and Brain Health Program with an interdisciplinary memory clinic and innovative care management program
• International Center for Epilepsy with a Level IV Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
• ALS Center of Excellence
• Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence
• Movement Disorders Clinic with DBS Program
• MS Center of Excellence
• Stroke Center and leading tele-stroke network regionally
• Neurocritical Care unit
• Neurosurgery program
• Concussion Management Program within Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Ochsner Baptist - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center is fully accredited and staffed by more than 600 trusted, skilled physicians and specialists – many practicing at Ochsner Baptist for decades. Featuring all private, inpatient rooms, an intensive care unit, state-of-the-art operating rooms and two cardiac catheterization labs, the hospital is located in the heart of New Orleans. Ochsner Baptist is home to a health center with physicians’ offices such as primary care, urology, orthopedics, back and spine services, pain management, and many more.

Ochsner Neuroscience Institute - Covington houses the neuropsychology, neurology, and neurosurgery departments on the Northshore. Highly-trained specialists uses the most advanced technologies available and treat general neurosurgery cases, cranial tumors, vascular disorders and much more. It is located down the road from Ochsner Health Center-Covington.

Client Population Served

Founded in 1942 by five physicians, Ochsner Health is one of the largest independent academic health systems in the United States and Louisiana’s largest not-for-profit health system. With 40 owned, managed and affiliated hospitals and specialty hospitals and more than 100 health centers and urgent care centers, nearly 25,000 employees, over 1,300 employed physicians in more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties, Ochsner is Louisiana’s largest health system. Ochsner is the only Louisiana hospital recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Hospital" in three different specialty categories. Ochsner conducts more than 700 clinical research studies annually and is proud to provide a tobacco-free environment for our employees and our patients. Ochsner serves patients from across Louisiana, every state in the nation, and more than 80 different countries.

The Neuropsychology group receives referrals from throughout the Ochsner Health and regionally primarily from neurologists, but also primary care, neurosurgery, physical medicine, psychiatry, and other disciplines. The neuropsychologists all follow a generalist model, assessing inpatients and outpatients in ages from 18-100 with referral issues including: Memory Loss, Dementia and its various subtypes, TBI/Concussion, Stroke, Epilepsy, MS, Movement Disorders, Psychiatric Issues, especially functional neurologic disorders, Infectious Disease, Substance Abuse, and so forth. Our neuropsychology team leads the Cognitive Disorders and Brain Health Program along with the interdisciplinary memory clinic and innovative tele-health dementia care management programs. They also participate in the ALS Clinic, Huntington’s Clinic, Pre-Surgical Evaluations prior to DBS placement, Epilepsy Surgery, Organ Transplant, and Forensic/Medical-Legal matters (e.g., Criminal/Civil matters).