Job Description
Coverage Needed
- Start Date: 09/01/2026
- End Date: 12/31/2026
- Call Schedule: 24-hour inpatient call
- Approximately 10 days per month
- Coverage scheduled in 2-3 predictable blocks of 3-4 consecutive days
- Approximately 1-2 weekends per month
Clinical Details
- EMR System: EPIC
- Practice Settings: 100% inpatient; no clinic, no elective practice, no outpatient follow-up
- Support Staff: 24/7 Advanced Practice Provider support; multidisciplinary team including neurocritical care, stroke neurology, anesthesia, emergency medicine, and operating room teams
- Required Procedures/Duties:
- Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke
- Ruptured and complex intracranial aneurysms
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Intracranial hemorrhage requiring neuroendovascular intervention
- Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs)
- Carotid and intracranial occlusive disease
- Other urgent cerebrovascular conditions requiring open or endovascular management
- Call: Dedicated vascular neurosurgical call only
- No spine, trauma, tumor, or general neurosurgery coverage
- Responsibilities include:
- Emergency Department and inpatient consultations
- Interpretation of advanced cerebrovascular imaging
- Diagnostic cerebral angiography when clinically indicated
- Mechanical thrombectomy
- Endovascular aneurysm treatment
- Other neuroendovascular procedures
- Open vascular neurosurgical procedures when appropriate
- Peri-procedural inpatient management
- Coverage is limited exclusively to vascular neurosurgical patients
- 170+ mechanical thrombectomies annually
- More than 100 intracranial aneurysms treated each year
- Dedicated Neuro ICU
Requirements
- Board Certified
- Covid and flu vaccinations
- Active ME license or Active IMLC LOQ (highly preferred; licensing candidates considered)
- NPDB: Self-query NPDB report within 30 days at time of presentation
- Must have experience in using EMR & EPIC
