Staff Physician- Sleep Medicine

Sleep Physician

As a Sleep Physician, the duties and responsibilities will be distributed between these domains and include but are not limited to the following:

• Attending in the sleep clinics and the tele-sleep medicine program
• ICU coverage as assigned
• Pulmonary clinic/bronchoscopy/procedural responsibilities as assigned
• Ordering and interpreting complex in-lab and limited channel home sleep studies
• Perform inpatient sleep consultations
• Perform evaluative testing and readings of PAP/sleep related disorder testing
• Participation as a faculty member in an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited sleep medicine fellowship program
• Teaching and supervising mid-level providers, sleep fellows, residents, ancillary staff and multidisciplinary teams
• Fulfilling all requirements for an AASM accredited sleep center
• Active participation in the clinical quality improvement initiatives of the sleep center
• Maintain, strategize, and expand clinical, telesleep and EMR-related initiatives of the sleep center
• Actively collaborate on VISN 10 and VHA supported sleep medicine initiatives
• Collaborating with the Behavioral sleep medicine program/specialist, ENT and Dental sleep medicine
• Active participation in the clinical sleep research program with expectation for scholarly activity
• Other duties as assigned
• The candidate should be highly customer-service focused, an effective role model, innovative thinker, and have clinical excellence, with exceptional interpersonal, teaching and communication skills. Board certification or board eligibility in sleep medicine is a requirement.
• The selected candidate is expected to participate in training sleep fellows, as well as precepting resident, medical students and other trainees in the field of Sleep Medicine. In addition to an active clinical practice the person will be responsible for supporting an academic environment oriented to fellows and medicine residents with strong emphasis on education and research.
• The John D. Dingell Sleep-Wake Disorders Center is an AASM-accredited sleep center with multiple sleep clinics and a state-of-the art sleep laboratory with 8 beds. The Sleep Center includes an active behavioral sleep medicine program, collaborations with Dental Sleep and ENT-Sleep specialists. The ENT specialists and sleep center collaborate on providing sleep apnea therapy via hypoglossal nerve stimulation. The Center serves as a referral center for VA medical centers in VISN 10 of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Battle Creek VA, Saginaw VA and Chillicothe VA) and provides diagnostic and therapeutic services for Veterans via face-to-face and telemedicine visits.