Traumatic Brain Injury Subject Matter Expert (Physician)

GD Information Technology • Silver Spring, MD

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT's Military Health team is hiring a Traumatic Brain Injury Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE). Hybrid work schedule available; however, the ideal candidate will live in the National Capital Region with the ability to commute to TBICoE HQ, in Silver Spring, MD, periodically. Work visa sponsorship will not be considered for this position. TBICoE Mission: As the traumatic brain injury (TBI) Pathway of Care manager within the Military Health System (MHS), TBICoE promotes state-of-the-science care from point-of-injury to reintegration for Service members, veterans, and their families to prevent and mitigate consequences of mild to severe TBI. TBICoE unifies a system of TBI health care, reliably advancing the science for the warfighter and ready to meet future brain health challenges. In this role, you will serve as the SME for TBI across the spectrum of severity. You will be expected to perform with minimal direction and oversight in your areas of expertise and responsibility as part of a high-tempo office environment that is responsive to needs of DHA and DOD leadership, TBI clinicians/providers, brain health educators, and cognitive monitoring programmatic issues.

Requirements

• MD required, with specialty training in related-TBI field (e.g., Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurosurgery, Neuro-Optometrist, Cognitive neuroscience, or related field strongly preferred.
• MD with state license, Board certification preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in the area of healthcare and/or healthcare research required
• SMEs are professional personnel who have published in peer review publications and/or presentations at professional meetings.
• Knowledge of TBI and statistics required.
• Excellent oral and written communications required.
• Must have strong collaborative and organizational skills.
• Ability to pass a T3 security/ background investigation.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of DoW and VA health care systems strongly preferred.
• prior experience with DoW/VA systems strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the TBICoE SME for mild, moderate, severe, and penetrating TBI including knowledge from prevention to rehabilitation and stays actively informed on emerging areas of brain health to include blast overpressure, high and low-level blast, cognitive monitoring and performance.
• Reviews specialty SME quarterly reports and provides updates to leadership on emerging areas of clinical practice, brain health threats, and warfighter-relevant demand signals.
• Provides expertise and analysis to TBICoE senior leadership on issues of TBI research, clinical care and standards of care for patients along the full continuum of TBI severity.
• Collaborates with and receives direction from TBICoE leadership, DoW health care policy offices and other SMEs to assist in enhancing metrics for evaluation of and standardization of TBI services and programs.
• May provide input for development of training platforms/tools. When appropriate, provides direct training.
• Provides consultation to leadership in TBICoE, DoW and clinical programs regarding the evidence on TBI evaluation, treatment and management, identification of gaps in evidence, the current and future needs in the military and future research requirements.
• Supports TBICoE researchers in their TBI research as an SME. May directly collaborate in TBICoE/DoW research projects.
• Attends and participates in scholarly, academic and scientific meetings related to TBI, brain health, blast, or cognitive monitoring.
• Must adhere to legal, professional and ethical codes with respect to confidentiality and privacy.
• May supervise junior colleagues.

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• full flex work weeks
• variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• short and long-term disability benefits
• life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior