Cardiologist

Vista Innovative Solutions, LLC (VIS) is an health solutions consulting firm supporting several healthcare contracts for our customers nationwide. We are seeking a Cardiologist to support our new mission in Dayton, OH. What You'll Do: • The contractor shall conduct comprehensive occupational aeromedical cardiac chart reviews on disqualified USAF aircrew with cardiac conditions requiring a waiver to return to operational duties, in support of the cardiology research and as needed to maintain clinical proficiency in aeromedical cardiology. • The contractor shall operate as an independent specialist within the Internal Medicine Branch and Aeromedical Consultation Service. The contractor shall participate in clinical conferences and consult with other aeromedical specialists within the division in support of research and as needed to maintain clinical proficiency in aeromedical cardiology. • The contractor shall serve as an expert consultant or advisor as required in aeromedical cardiology matters in the course of maintaining clinical proficiency in aeromedical cardiology. • The contractor shall gather and maintain patient information and records, including social or medical history in relation to coronary artery disease and as needed for evaluations performed to maintain clinical proficiency in aeromedical cardiology. • The contractor shall summarize clinical case evaluations of aircrew, special duty operations, and other individuals in written and verbal format as needed for evaluations performed to maintain clinical proficiency in aeromedical cardiology. • The contractor shall conduct FECI instruction/lectures via PowerPoint presentations to flight surgeons, aerospace physiologists, psychologists, and international flight surgeons in training at USAFSAM on results of FECI case reviews and research related to coronary artery disease as applied to the delivery of aeromedical cardiac consultations. • The contractor shall design plans for scientific and statistical investigations regarding coronary artery disease utilizing data from FECI research data determined to be relevant to teaching and consultative mission tasks and applicability to aerospace medicine and present findings at national and international conferences. All scientific and statistical investigation plans will be coordinated with and approved by FECI professional staff and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for improving branch teaching and consultation capabilities. • The contractor shall collaborate with FECI professional colleagues and other FECI staff and organize review of scientific literature on coronary artery disease and participate in discussion of same with FECI professional staff and contractors, as needed in support of research tasks. • The contractor shall assist FECI professional staff and senior statistician in authoring scientific paper(s), professional presentation(s), and DoD technical report(s) in support of coronary artery disease research tasks. The number of presentations, reports and papers shall be determined by FECI branch chief and principal investigator based upon the relevance of findings as they become available. • The contractor shall assist in the data analyses, research design, report writing and research collaboration of FECI research projects. • The contractor shall provide and receive technical guidance and advisory recommendations to and from FECI professional staff regarding coronary artery disease research project management, as well as complex case reviews for S&A studies. • The contractor shall work with FECI professional staff to assure coronary artery disease research S&A projects are executing on schedule. What You Bring: • The contractor should be a fully licensed cardiologist and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiology with at least 10 years of experience. The contractor shall maintain permanent, full and unrestricted state license to practice medicine, and must meet credentialing/accreditation requirements of the Wright-Patterson AFB Medical Group, AAAHC, JCAHO, MAJCOM HQ, and HQ USAF • Contractor shall have experience working with and evaluating USAF personnel or other DoD aviation or special duty personnel or minimum five years of aeromedical cardiology experience. • The contractor shall be able to interpret clinical evaluations for aircrew, special duty operators, and other airmen required in support of FECI consultation, teaching and research task requirements. Desired Qualifications • The contractor shall have experience with writing comprehensive reports for third party use, as well as working on publications for peer review cardiology journals and be able to create articles for publication independently.