Aspire Medical Staffing
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-call
- Must be a US citizen
- Degree/Education: Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree from an accredited optometry
school with a state license to practice optometry. - Certification: Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
- Board Certification: Board certification in neuro-optometry demonstrating a high
level of competence and expertise in the field. Must have an active certification from American
Board 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 a
Neuro-optometrist. - Internship/Residency: N/A
- Experience: at least 2 years of experience
- 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, rehabilitation
programs and techniques; provide training to patients and family members on the preferred
and best methods to encourage recovery. - Provide expert consultation, to an inter-disciplinary team of professionals and
administrators; apply individualized patient-centered treatment to complex patients with
co-morbidities, such as, but not limited to, unprecedented traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic
stress disorder, and pain. - Prepare, research, analyze, and provide comprehensive analysis and reports based on test
results, interdisciplinary consultation and conference with providers to review the
diagnostic findings, prognoses, therapeutic recommendations and respond to inquiries or
concerns 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 entire
spectrum of the patient population (pediatric to geriatric), in all areas of injury or condition:
traumatic brain injury, infant vision, developmental delays, special needs, vision-related
learning problems, sports enhancement, strabismus, amblyopia and other acquired brain
injuries. - Utilize advanced and state-of-the-art diagnostic and evaluation techniques, to include
electro-diagnostic testing, allowing for the provision of extensive assessment of the
patient's neuro-sensory system and how well vision is functioning as the dominant sense
and how the brain receives information from the outside world, processes, stores and
integrates information with the other senses in order to understand and respond to the
surrounding environment. - Provide an initial comprehensive vision examination to include a total evaluation of
external and internal eye health, analysis of the functional visual abilities of oculomotor
control, eye teaming ability, stereopsis, binocularity and visual field. Perform an extended
sensorimotor analysis, to include performance testing of the visual input skills (including
visa graph testing, infrared measurement of eye movements when reading, primitive reflex
testing as it relates to overall visual development and eye-hand motor testing). Perform
neuro-visual testing to determine how the visual system processes information, how vision
integrates with the other sense modalities and determine whether vision is supporting or
interfering with performance potential. - Perform sensory view, electro-diagnostic testing of vision and ocular-motor function, to
include electro- retinogram (ERG) and electro-oculogram (EOG). Assess vestibular
performance, inner ear function, proprioception, sensation of the muscular system, balance
function, vestibular-ocular reflex function and sensory integration function. Assess
patient's visual perceptual abilities and skills: the ability to visually discriminate
differences and similarities among forms such as in different orientations, sizes, or if embedded within other forms, visual laterality and directionality; visual memory (the
ability to remember the characteristics of a given form after a brief presentation); visual
sequential memory (the ability to remember for immediate recall, a series of forms in their
specific order of presentation); visual motor integration (the ability to take in, analyze and
reproduce visual information using paper and pencil); spatial and phonological awareness
skills (the ability to listen to and look at information analytically and to recognize that the
words heard and spatial patterns seen are organized sensory elements that are represented
in reading, spelling, writing and arithmetic); silent word reading fluency (the ability to
recognize printed words accurately and efficiently); and word reading efficiency (the
ability to recognize and pronounce printed words accurately and fluently). - Develop and provide specific individual therapeutic treatment and rehabilitation to improve
and 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 contact
lenses, and other materials and equipment, are designed to bring a set of skills to conscious
awareness 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 the
patient's condition. Conclusions, recommendations and decisions are accepted as
authoritative from inter-disciplinary team members, staff, faculty, peers, colleagues, and
senior leadership. - Develop and provide specific individual therapeutic treatment and rehabilitation to improve
and enhance patient's visual function. Treatment plans, such as exercises, use of corrective
lenses, prisms, filters, patches, vision training computer software, therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents, medical contact lenses, and other materials and equipment, are
designed to bring a set of skills to conscious awareness and promote repetition and practice
by the patient to achieve a level of mastery. - Document and close notes in MHS Genesis within three (3) business days of patient
encounters. - Respond to beneficiary messages submitted and received in the MHS Genesis secure portal
systems within one (1) business day.