Job Description
**Job Description**
Cedars‑Sinai’s autopsy program helps understand why dementia develops and how treatment can be improved. The program is a partnership between the Neurology Department and interested patients and families to obtain an autopsy shortly after death to study the brain, spinal cord, and other tissues of individuals with memory disorders.
**Note:** Scheduling flexibility including evening, weekend, and holiday rotation commitments may be necessary.
Dr. Samuel J. Guzman is a board-certified neuropathologist and physician-scientist. Dr. Guzman's research focuses on spatial transcriptomics, brain banking, and clinicopathologic correlation in disorders including Alzheimer disease, hippocampal sclerosis-associated epilepsy, autoimmune neurologic disease, and related neurodegenerative conditions. His work combines neuropathology, neuroimaging, and emerging molecular platforms to investigate mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability, neuroinflammation, and neurovascular dysf...
Cedars‑Sinai’s autopsy program helps understand why dementia develops and how treatment can be improved. The program is a partnership between the Neurology Department and interested patients and families to obtain an autopsy shortly after death to study the brain, spinal cord, and other tissues of individuals with memory disorders.
**Note:** Scheduling flexibility including evening, weekend, and holiday rotation commitments may be necessary.
Dr. Samuel J. Guzman is a board-certified neuropathologist and physician-scientist. Dr. Guzman's research focuses on spatial transcriptomics, brain banking, and clinicopathologic correlation in disorders including Alzheimer disease, hippocampal sclerosis-associated epilepsy, autoimmune neurologic disease, and related neurodegenerative conditions. His work combines neuropathology, neuroimaging, and emerging molecular platforms to investigate mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability, neuroinflammation, and neurovascular dysf...