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This is a full-time telehealth outpatient position in Pain Management at the VA, involving clinical care, teaching, research, and administrative duties with a Monday-Friday daytime schedule. The role includes managing veterans with complex pain and addiction via telehealth, offering a salary range of $285,000-$350,000, 50-55 days paid time off, and VA benefits with no visa sponsorship.
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Advance Veteran Care with Telehealth-Staff Physician Opportunity in Pain Management, Opioid Safety, and Addiction Medicine.
Position Overview: Join the Pain Management and Opioid Safety Center of Excellence (PMOS-COE) as a core clinical provider on the National Tele-Pain Addiction Consult (TPAC) Service. This is a temporary position with a not-to-exceed (NTE) appointment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative team environment, supporting clinical care, teaching, research, and administrative activities.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide telehealth consultations for Veterans with complex pain conditions and co-occurring SUD or OUD, referred from VA facilities nationwide.
* Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments, diagnostic evaluations, risk stratification, and develop individualized treatment plans for a broad spectrum of pain conditions.
* Initiate and manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, including opioid and non-opioid analgesics, adjuvant therapies, interventional approaches, and multimodal pain management strategies.
* Initiate and manage medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in collaboration with referring VA providers.
* Offer same-day access and treatment initiation in alignment with the TPAC bridge clinic model, delivering short-term follow-up until transition to long-term local services.
* Provide clinical support to VA facilities lacking on-site pain medicine specialists and help fulfill VHA Pain Management Team (PMT) requirements.
* Use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), motivational interviewing, and other evidence-based approaches.
* Collaborate with TPAC inter-professional team members and contribute to optimizing clinical workflows and patient outcomes.
* Contribute to TPAC protocol development, standard operating procedures, and national initiatives.
* Teach medical students, residents, and fellows; encouraged and supported to pursue a UCLA clinical faculty appointment.
* Engage in PMOS-COE educational activities (e.g., webinars, CME, grand rounds, peer consultations) for VA providers nationally.
* Participate in PMOS-COE research, quality improvement, and implementation science initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
* M.D. or D.O. from an accredited institution.
* Completion of an accredited residency in a clinical specialty.
* Current, unrestricted medical license in at least one U.S. state.
* Board eligible or board certified in a primary clinical specialty.
* Demonstrated ability to perform duties outlined in privilege delineation.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Fellowship or post-residency clinical experience in Pain Medicine, Addiction Medicine, PM&R, Anesthesiology, Neurology, Rheumatology, Palliative Care, or related fields.
* Board certification in Pain Medicine or Addiction Medicine.
* Experience managing complex pain conditions, SUD/OUD, or co-occurring pain and addiction.
* Familiarity with opioid safety practice, risk stratification, prescription monitoring, and naloxone co-prescribing.
* Prescribing and managing MOUD/analgesic therapies.
* Experience with VA EHR platforms (CPRS/VistA) and telehealth delivery.
* Eligibility and interest in a UCLA clinical faculty appointment (supported by PMOS-COE).
Work Schedule: On-site, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Qualifications:
* Must be a U.S. Citizen
* Education: Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine
* Must possess a current, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
* Residency: Must have completed residency in an accredited core specialty
* Certification: BC/BE Obstetrics and Gynecology
Benefits and Features: The VA offers all employees an industry-leading full benefits and features package to support high quality professional practice and a favorable work-life-family balance. The VA package includes:
Salary Range: $285,000 -$350,000, Final Salary determination within this range.
* Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5-day paid absence for CME)
* Benefits Include: Dental, Health, Life Insurance, Pension, Thrift Savings Plan (401K) with 5% match, Survivor Benefits etc.
* Continuing education: Up to $1,000 or more annually for full-time BC physicians
* Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: VA employees are eligible.
* Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
* Service without strings: No employment contracts, noncompete clauses, restrictive covenants, or other significant restrictions on outside work.