Neurologist

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) provides Aerospace Medicine Training, Education, and Consultation to Enhance Warfighter Performance and Combat Casualty Care for World Wide Operations in Garrison and War. It is the center for aeromedical education, training, and consultation in direct support of USAF, DOD, and in operations. USAFSAM provides peacetime and contingency support in hyperbarics, human performance, clinical and environmental health, expeditionary medical support, and aeromedical evacuation

This effort includes tasks and activities to be performed by the contractor in support of USAFSAM Aerospace Medicine Clinical Sciences Division, Neuropsychiatry Branch (FECN). The work is Clinical Medical Support and Clinical Research Investigation Studies Support. The candidate will perform the tasks outlined in the following paragraphs to fulfill the requirements of this task order.

This is a personal services contract, which is intended to create an employer-employee relationship between the Government and the individual health care providers. The performance of the individual health care providers under this task order is subject to day-to-day supervision and control by healthcare facility personnel comparable to that exercised over military and civil service health care providers engaged in comparable work. Any personal injury claims alleging negligence by the individual health care providers within the scope of the health care providers’ performance of this personal services contract shall be processed by DoD as claims alleging negligence by DoD military or civil service health care providers. This personal services contract does not create any employer- employee relationship between the Government and any corporation, partnership, business association or other party or legal entity with which the individual health care providers may be associated.

DESCRIPTION OF QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

The candidate shall...

  • Be a licensed neurologist. 
  • Be board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology. 
  • Maintain permanent, full and unrestricted state license to practice medicine, and must meet credentialing/accreditation requirements of the USAF. 
  • Have at least ten (10) years of experience, able to conduct and interpret clinical evaluations for aircrew, special duty operators, and other airmen required in support of FECN consultation, teaching and research task requirements. 
  • Have experience working with and evaluating USAF personnel or other DOD aviation or special duty personnel or minimum one year aeromedical neurology experience. 
  • Have experience with writing comprehensive reports for third party use, as well as working on publications for peer review neurology journals and be able to create articles for publication independently.

DESCRIPTION OF TASKS

The candidate shall...

  • Conduct comprehensive in-person occupational aeromedical neurologic evaluations, aeromedically-related telephone and chart review consultations on disqualified USAF aircrew with neurologic conditions requiring a waiver to return to operational duties.
  • Operate as an independent specialist within the Neuropsychiatry Branch and Aeromedical Consultation Service. 
  • Participate in clinical conferences on a regular basis, and consult with other aeromedical specialists within the division.
  • Interview and examine patients, gather and maintain patient information and records, including social or medical history obtained from patients, relatives, or other professionals. 
  • Evaluate and diagnose any pathology or disease process found. 
  • Request specialized medical studies when professional judgment so indicates, and follow up on the results of such studies. 
  • Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition or mental disorder.
  • Summarize clinical findings of FECN waiver consultations and clinical case evaluations of USAF aircrew, special duty operations, and other airmen in written and verbal format.
  • Conduct FECN instruction/lectures via PowerPoint presentations to flight surgeons, aerospace physiologists, psychologists, and international flight surgeons in training at USAFSAM on results of FECN case reviews and research as applied to the delivery of neurologic care and aeromedical neurological consultations.
  • Write and develop competitive, well-written, full drafts, as needed, of educational-teaching curriculum for required courses based on research and presentations and edit PowerPoint teaching curriculum drafts as directed by FECN professional staff.
  • Design plans for scientific and statistical investigations utilizing data from FECN research data determined to be relevant to teaching and consultative mission tasks and applicability to USAF aerospace medicine and present findings at national and international conferences. 
  • Coordinate all scientific and statistical investigation plans with and approved by FECN professional staff and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for improving branch teaching and consultation capabilities.
  • Collaborate with FECN professional colleagues and other FECN staff and organize review of scientific literature and participate in discussion of same with FECN professional staff and contractors, as needed in support of teaching, consultative, and research tasks.
  • Assist FECN professional staff and senior statistician in authoring scientific paper(s), professional presentation(s), and DoD technical report(s) in support of teaching, consultation, and research tasks. 
  • Assist in the data analyses, research design, report writing and research collaboration of FECN aeromedical research projects that support teaching and clinical consultations.
  • Assure confidentiality of documents, communications and data (i.e., follow HIPPA and IRB requirements) related to teaching, clinical consultations, and research.
  • Provide and receive technical guidance and advisory recommendations from FECN professional staff regarding teaching and research project management, as well as complex case reviews.
  • Work with FECN professional staff to assure teaching, clinical consultation case reviews, and research projects are executing on schedule.
  • Be available to travel to domestic and international destinations for temporary duty travel related to the tasks above.

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