Neurologist

Sleep Medicine Physician Opportunity

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About the Facility Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) is the nation's first and only fully integrated VA and Department of Defense (DoD) federal health care facility, located at the Great Lakes Naval Station in North Chicago, IL. Named after NASA astronaut Captain James Lovell, the center serves both military veterans and active-duty service members along with their families under a single combined mission. The facility provides comprehensive primary care and specialty health services, including mental health care, women's health services, PTSD treatment, cardiology, podiatry, optometry, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and more. Operating 24/7, the Lovell FHCC is a hub of clinical excellence and innovation, offering providers the opportunity to work alongside both VA and military medical professionals in a truly unique environment.

Facility Address: 3001 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL 60064

Requirements (duties include but are not limited to)

• Provide services to include, but not be limited to diagnosing, treating and managing veteran patients with sleep disorders according to standard, usual and acceptable or customary methods and techniques.
• Work with physicians and technologists in the sleep program within the Department of Neurology. Responsibilities will include sleep clinic, reading sleep studies and teaching sleep fellows. In addition, the physician will participate in reading EEGs (routine and long term and other neurophysiologic studies.
• Work independently, caring for outpatients in an established sleep specialty clinic.
• Cooperate with and participate in medical duties or functions related to quality-of-care review and improvement.
• Work closely and collaboratively with all members of the Sleep Clinic team, and the Neurology department clinical and administrative staff.
• Participate in the general Neurology clinic and the inpatient Neurologist service, including ward service duties as attending physician, and on the inpatient consultation team.
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of Neurology residents and medical students and other trainees rotating through the Neurology service, and outside of the Neurology department within the facility.
• Participate in on-call duties for the Department of Neurology including weekend and evening/night-time hours as needed to fulfill his/her obligations in the clinical care of the patients.
• Participate in Sleep telehealth aspects including sleep telehealth visits.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must be a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Osteopathy (D.O.) who has completed an internship and residency in an accredited Neurology Training Program and is board certified or board eligible in Neurology
• Must have and maintain a valid, unrestricted license in one of the 50 states in the U.S., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Must have a minimum of two years recent experience having been continuously employed in the practice of Neurology and possess fellowship training as a nerve muscular specialist or in electro diagnostics equivalent to one full year.
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Neurology with special interest in sleep disorders and clinical neurophysiology.