Physician - Sleep Medicine (Stockton)

Sleep Medicine Physician

Sleep Medicine duties include but are not limited to: diagnosing, treating, and managing patients with sleep disorders including sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, REM behavior disorder, periodic limb movement disorder and others, including prescribing, ordering, and managing medications when indicated. They prescribe initial positive airway pressure (PAP) settings, evaluate and manage all modalities of PAP including making necessary changes to pressure settings, evaluation and management of sleep-related ventilatory disorders. Sleep medicine physicians also evaluate patients for non-PAP alternative treatments for sleep apnea and prescribe and manage those treatments where appropriate. Providers do the interpretation of sleep studies and sleep oximetry and provide various modalities of care including telemedicine with video and telephone. Work in collaboration with other members of the sleep care team including nurses, mid-level licensed providers, technicians and administrative staff. Collaborate and communicate with other disciplines and services including pulmonary, otolaryngology, dental, psychology, psychiatry, biomedical engineering, prosthetics and others to optimize patient care and workflow. Telemedicine-based inpatient sleep consultation and neurology on-call consultation-only service done through telemedicine is also required.

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