Advance your career as an academic clinical neuropsychologist

OHSU’s two-year Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship will prepare you for a career in multidisciplinary academic medicine. You will train with specialists at OHSU in clinical, research, and academic environments.

Our program offers you the opportunity to build a deep understanding of brain disorders that affect behavior, mood, thought and movement.

Fellowship objectives

Our goal is to help you develop advanced multidisciplinary skills in clinical neuropsychology. We will also prepare you for board certification in neuropsychology. Your training with national leaders will include an emphasis on assessing older adults with neurogenerative disorders, primarily dementing illnesses and movement disorders.

You will be immersed in all aspects of neuropsychological care. You’ll spend about 80% of your time focused on clinical training, 10% on research, and 10% on academic activities such as seminars and case conferences.

Our fellowship follows the Houston Conference standards and model for specialty training in clinical neuropsychology.

Fellowship curriculum

Your training will encompass hands-on experience in complex clinical care, research and academics.

Clinical training

As part of the OHSU Department of Neurology, your clinical opportunities will include placements in:

• Outpatient Neurology
• The Deep Brain Stimulation clinic
• The Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center
• The Parkinson Center & Movement Disorders Program 

With faculty mentorship, you will independently:

• Interview patients
• Administer, score, and interpret tests
• Write reports
• Share feedback with patients

Other opportunities include training in:

• Intraoperative language mapping through our Awake Craniotomy Program
• Cognitive screening for high-intensity focused ultrasound
• Neuropsychological evaluations in the Department of Psychiatry and other specialty clinics
• Supervision of practicum students through OHSU’s Clinical Psychology Program or other local universities

The highly regarded Layton Center is one of thirty six NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers around the country. With both clinical and research programs to improve care for older adults, it is the only one of its kind in Oregon.

Our Parkinson Center is recognized as a Center of Excellence by the Parkinson’s Foundation, the Lewy Body Dementia Association and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.

Research

OHSU, Oregon’s only academic health center, offers you the opportunity to enrich your understanding of neuropsychological conditions through research. Our department is engaged in many large-scale studies of movement disorders, dementia and healthy aging.

You will work alongside accomplished Department of Neurology faculty to take part in research that could include:

• Longitudinal aging studies at the Layton Center
• Research on Parkinson’s disease
• Studies of balance disorders and movement disorders
• Research into dementia and healthy aging in older adults

Academic training

Your training will include extensive opportunities to learn and interact with faculty, peers and patients. You’ll hone your critical thinking skills and develop expertise in complex, evidence-based care. 

Neuropsychology didactics: You will take part in neuropsychology seminars at OHSU and the Portland VA Medical Center on topics such as:

• Functional neuroanatomy
• Aphasias
• Psychometrics
• Multicultural factors in assessment

Parkinson's disease and movement disorders rounds: Fellows join weekly in-person and virtual rounds about patients treated through our Parkinson Center & Movement Disorders Program. 

Neuropsychology case conferences: Fellows take part in monthly meetings on providing neuropsychology care in the community.

Neurology Grand Rounds: The Department of Neurology offers weekly continuing medical education events.

Deep brain stimulation reviews: Fellows join weekly clinical data reviews on patients with Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor.  

Aging and Alzheimer’s disease conferences: Fellows join presentations of clinical and pathology research findings, and clinical reviews of patients treated at the Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

How to apply

To apply for the 2026-28 academic year or to ask questions, email Nathan Hantke, Ph.D., at Hantke@ohsu.edu.

Important dates

• Applications open Oct. 1, 2026
• Applications close Dec. 1, 2026

Fellowship leaders

Nathan Hantke, Ph.D., ABPP-CN., director of the Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship, treats patients with memory disorders, head injury, movement disorders and epilepsy. His research interests include geriatric neuropsychology.

Kevin Duff, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, is a co-supervisor of the Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship. He evaluates patients at the Layton Center and research cognitive disorders in older adults.