Lead Optometric Technician - Keplr Vision Group - Waldorf, MD
(2025-06 - 2026-07)
- Facilitated smooth office operations by coordinating coverage of technicians across multiple locations.
- Conducted pre-screening triage calls to ensure proper patient scheduling and referrals to specialists when necessary.
- Evaluated patients through visual acuity checks, pupil assessments, extraocular movement examinations, and slit lamp exams, including angle assessment and patient dilation.
- Performed pre-testing procedures using imaging technologies such as photos, OCTs and HVF as required.
- Trained and mentored newly hired technicians to maintain high operational standards.
- Supported the Manager in cross-training initiatives to enhance team versatility.
Scribe/Triage Tech - The Glaucoma Center - Bowie, MD
(2024-01 - 2025-04)
- Scribe for assigned doctor the day by documenting patient's reason for visit, diagnoses, treatment, follow up instructions, coding and billing.
- Assist the doctor with minor clinical procedures, such as MP lasers, needling and other anterior segment procedure.
- Screens Triage Calls, relays urgent calls to doctors, sends prescriptions into pharmacies accordingly.
- Does HVF and OCT Testings as needed.
Lead Ophthalmic Tech/Lead Scribe - Greater Maryland Eye Physicians and Surgeons - Clinton, MD
(2013-09 - 2024-01)
- Oversees daily clinic flow in a busy multi-specialty clinic
- Handles clerical, technical and patient related functions.
- Triage emergency calls and coordinate appointments.
- Review and manage doctors daily schedule
- Oversees weekly financial injection reports. Responsible for obtaining BV, ordering and stocking of intravitreal injections.
- Ordering of medical supplies as needed
- Coordinates technicians work assignments
- In-charge of technicians schedule including vacations and sick days.
- Hiring and Termination of Technician staff
- Supervises and trains technicians to take competent medical and ocular histories.
- Trains newly hired technicians to learn our EMR system.
- Acts as Liaison between doctors and medical representatives.
- Acts as lead scribe for our General, Glaucoma and Retina Ophthalmologists.
- Assist with patient education
- Coding for appropriate diagnoses and modifiers for proper billing.
- History taking, visual acuity test, applanation tonometry slit lamp examination, pupil assessment, lensometry, refractometry, color vision testing, Stereo Test, chamber depth evaluation, muscle motility, confrontational visual field, pachymetry and instillation of ophthalmic drops as necessary.
- Assisting in minor in-office procedures such as injections, chalazion excision, PRP, YAG capsulotomy, iridotomy, trabeculectomy and Retinopexy lasers.
- Measures eyeglass prescriptions by Lensometer
- Preparation of injection trays and preparation of block
- Knowledge of A & B ultrasound biometry.
- Writing of lab scripts or MRI testings as needed to assess and rule out systemic diseases.
