VA Northern California Health Care System is looking for Neurologist (trained and board certified in Sleep Medicine) to join our team supporting our Stockton VA Community Based Clinic by providing tele-medicine from the Sacramento VA Medical Center as well as periodic on-site care in Stockton.
Qualified physician will diagnose, treat, and manage patients with neurological disorders appropriate for a general neurology practice, as well as sleep disorders including sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, REM behavior disorder, periodic limb movement disorder and others.
Physician must know how to 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.
Physician must be familiar with the interpretation of sleep studies and sleep oximetry.
The candidate should be comfortable with providing telemedicine care modalities including video and telephone, across several geographical clinic locations.
Travel beyond the primary job location to the Stockton clinic is periodically required.
Responsibilities include inpatient consultation, outpatient clinic, sleep study procedure interpretation, and on-call coverage in general neurology.
The candidate will work closely with the team of other Neurologists as well as with support staff including nurse practitioners and medical technicians.
Requirements- Board certified/eligible in Neurology and Sleep Medicine Preferred Experience: Preference is given to individuals with experience in VA systems and strong familiarity with general neurology and sleep medicine, including management of PAP and interpretation of home sleep testing and polysomnography studies, preferred to have formal training and board certification in both Neurology and Sleep Medicine.
Work Schedule: 40 hours/week; on-call coverage is via tele-health only during after hours, weekends and on holidays.