Description
Description
Serves as the SME for all examinations related to military environmental and occupational exposures — including PACT Act presumptive conditions, burn pits, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune water contamination, and Persian Gulf/Afghanistan infectious disease exposure — providing clinical leadership and quality oversight to the examiner network handling these highly specialized claims.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as SME for PACT Act, burn pit, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, and Persian Gulf/Afghanistan infectious disease examination categories
- Provide leadership, guidance, oversight, and QA to environmental and occupational health examiners
- Deliver senior clinical review and executive medical opinion on complex exposure-related examination findings
- Advise on emerging presumptive condition policy and its translation into examiner protocols
- Support Training Director in developing exposure-specific examiner curriculum
- Represent SAIC in VA-facing discussions on exposure examination quality and adequacy
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) and 10 years of experience
- Active, unrestricted license in good standing issued by a State Medical Board
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Preventive Medicine or Occupational Medicine
- Minimum 3 years of experience relevant to completing VA disability examinations
- Deliver senior clinical review and executive medical opinion on complex exposure-related examination findings
- Advise on emerging presumptive condition policy and its translation into examiner protocols
- Support Training Director in developing exposure-specific examiner curriculum
- Represent SAIC in VA-facing discussions on exposure examination quality and adequacy
- Ability to obtain and maintain VA Public Trust
- US Citizen required
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior VA or DoD experience with toxic exposure/presumptive condition policy or adjudication
- National-level policy or Congressional/interagency liaison experience on military exposure issues
- Peer-review or executive clinical oversight experience of examiners conducting exposure-related exams
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