Neurology Physician

We are seeking a dedicated and highly skilled Neuro-Optometrist to join our healthcare team at Fort Carson with the Intrepid Spirit Centers Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI).The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) and Intrepid Spirit Centers (ISCs) are part of a specialized centers dedicated to improving outcomes for service members and families affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related conditions. These centers deliver integrated, evidence-based, and patient-centered care through interdisciplinary teams, while also supporting research and education aligned with the Department of Defense's readiness and resilience priorities. Their model combines TBI rehabilitation, neurological and behavioral health care, integrative medicine, and skills-based training to develop collaborative, individualized treatment plans. In addition, providers use the Anomalous Health Incident Acute Assessment (DHA Form 244) to guide early evaluations of patients exposed to suspected AHIs, a condition still under scientific investigation with symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, hearing loss, and cognitive changes. This role offers an opportunity to work in diverse clinical settings, utilizing advanced skills in medical documentation, EMR systems, and patient education to improve health outcomes.Schedule:Hours of operation are between 6am and 6pm (typically clinical hours are 7am - 4pm).Staff members are expected to perform 8- or 10-hour shifts, for a 40-hour work week, Monday through Friday.No on-callQualifications:Must be a US citizenDegree/Education: Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree from an accredited optometryschool with a state license to practice optometry.Certification: Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)Board Certification: Board certification in neuro-optometry demonstrating a highlevel of competence and expertise in the field. Must have an active certification from AmericanBoard of Certification in Medical Optometry (ABCMO) certification in medical optometry,which includes specialization in areas like ocular disease, retinal disease, and glaucoma.Licensure/Registration: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as aNeuro-optometrist.Internship/Residency: N/AExperience: at least 2 years of experienceDuties:Diagnose and treat visual problems related to neurological conditions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Through rehabilitative treatment, neuro-optometrists retrain and strengthen the neural connections in the brain to improve binocular vision. Neuro-optometric rehabilitation focuses on strengthening the visual skills needed to perform regular daily activities for increased independence and improved quality of life.Mentor in the area of neuro-optometry; provide the full range, depth, and scope of professional medical and health services to patients who are involved in concussive events. Accountable for assessment, testing, diagnosis, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of serious, complex, unprecedented, severe neuro-optometric cases of acquired, systemic, or TBI.Analyze, develop, plan, and implement individualized patient-specific, rehabilitationprograms and techniques; provide training to patients and family members on the preferredand best methods to encourage recovery. Provide expert consultation, to an inter-disciplinary team of professionals andadministrators; apply individualized patient-centered treatment to complex patients withco-morbidities, such as, but not limited to, unprecedented traumatic brain injury, posttraumaticstress disorder, and pain.Prepare, research, analyze, and provide comprehensive analysis and reports based on testresults, interdisciplinary consultation and conference with providers to review thediagnostic findings, prognoses, therapeutic recommendations and respond to inquiries orconcerns regarding the full evaluation.Assess the performance of vision and how vision integrates with all of the other senses.Apply advanced technology, neuro-visual testing and traditional evaluation methods.Diagnose and treat visual inefficiencies or delays by providing services to the entirespectrum of the patient population (pediatric to geriatric), in all areas of injury or condition:traumatic brain injury, infant vision, developmental delays, special needs, vision-relatedlearning problems, sports enhancement, strabismus, amblyopia and other acquired braininjuries.Utilize advanced and state-of-the-art diagnostic and evaluation techniques, to includeelectro-diagnostic testing, allowing for the provision of extensive assessment of thepatient's neuro-sensory system and how well vision is functioning as the dominant senseand how the brain receives information from the outside world, processes, stores andintegrates information with the other senses in order to understand and respond to thesurrounding environment.Provide an initial comprehensive vision examination to include a total evaluation ofexternal and internal eye health, analysis of the functional visual abilities of oculomotorcontrol, eye teaming ability, stereopsis, binocularity and visual field. Perform an extendedsensorimotor analysis, to include performance testing of the visual input skills (includingvisa graph testing, infrared measurement of eye movements when reading, primitive reflextesting as it relates to overall visual development and eye-hand motor testing). Performneuro-visual testing to determine how the visual system processes information, how visionintegrates with the other sense modalities and determine whether vision is supporting orinterfering with performance potential.Perform sensory view, electro-diagnostic testing of vision and ocular-motor function, toinclude electro- retinogram (ERG) and electro-oculogram (EOG). Assess vestibularperformance, inner ear function, proprioception, sensation of the muscular system, balancefunction, vestibular-ocular reflex function and sensory integration function. Assesspatient's visual perceptual abilities and skills: the ability to visually discriminatedifferences and similarities among forms such as in different orientations, sizes, or if embedded within other forms, visual laterality and directionality; visual memory (theability to remember the characteristics of a given form after a brief presentation); visualsequential memory (the ability to remember for immediate recall, a series of forms in theirspecific order of presentation); visual motor integration (the ability to take in, analyze andreproduce visual information using paper and pencil); spatial and phonological awarenessskills (the ability to listen to and look at information analytically and to recognize that thewords heard and spatial patterns seen are organized sensory elements that are representedin reading, spelling, writing and arithmetic); silent word reading fluency (the ability torecognize printed words accurately and efficiently); and word reading efficiency (theability to recognize and pronounce printed words accurately and fluently).Develop and provide specific individual therapeutic treatment and rehabilitation to improveand enhance patient's visual function.Develop treatment plans, such as exercises, use of corrective lenses, prisms, filters, patches,vision training computer software, therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, medical contactlenses, and other materials and equipment, are designed to bring a set of skills to consciousawareness and promote repetition and practice by the patient to achieve a level of mastery.Monitor the effectiveness of drugs to determine the results of therapy and treatment on thepatient's condition. Conclusions, recommendations and decisions are accepted asauthoritative from inter-disciplinary team members, staff, faculty, peers, colleagues, andsenior leadership.Develop and provide specific individual therapeutic treatment and rehabilitation to improveand enhance patient's visual function. Treatment plans, such as exercises, use of correctivelenses, prisms, filters, patches, vision training computer software, therapeuticpharmaceutical agents, medical contact lenses, and other materials and equipment, aredesigned to bring a set of skills to conscious awareness and promote repetition and practiceby the patient to achieve a level of mastery.Document and close notes in MHS Genesis within three (3) business days of patientencounters.Respond to beneficiary messages submitted and received in the MHS Genesis secure portalsystems within one (1) business day.