CHRIS BAEHR
Little Rock,AR
Summary
With over 17 years of experience in neurophysiology, I have gained valuable expertise in the field by working closely with supervising physicians. One of the highlights of my career has been the privilege of working with children in the operating room, a rare opportunity in most hospitals. Additionally, I spent nearly a year at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under the leadership of Dr. J.D. Day, an accomplished skull base neurosurgeon. During this time, Dr. Day generously shared his techniques in a step-by-step fashion, greatly enhancing my understanding of neurosurgery. Another significant experience was monitoring spine deformity corrections for Dr. Richard McCarthy, who has developed innovative pediatric spine systems with remarkable outcomes, providing precious children with a chance at a better life. Ensuring patient safety throughout these challenging cases has been a privilege for me. In 2016, I joined Advanced Monitoring Services and have since expanded our neuromonitoring operations in the Central Arkansas Region. Leading a team of up to 17 technologists and leads, we manage all operations for a multi-facility hospital system neurodiagnostic department that includes: IOM, cEEG, EEG, and EMG. Lead a team to provide full service front to back monitoring for a level 4 Epilepsy Center for their epilepsy surgery program. Currently, I am responsible for overseeing operations, sales, customer relationships, contracts, P&L, and casting vision for my territory while executing leadership's objectives. Within the last two years my team launched an ambulatory EEG service line, which is now successfully servicing several major hospitals and clinics in the region and providing greater access to epilepsy monitoring resources to patients in the comfort of their own homes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Territory Business Manager, CNIM, R.EEGT
Advanced Monitoring Services
11.2016 - Current
- Responsible for day-to-day operations, contract management, customer relationships, hiring, sales, FTE utilization, integrating our team with surgical teams
- Trains surgeons and staff member on advanced modalities and demonstrates these in the OR setting
- Established a clinical neurodiagnostic service division in my territory including an outpatient lab, inpatient LTM, and an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Serves as the Director of Neurodiagnostic Services for a client that is a multi-facility system in Central Arkansas
- Strengthened relationships with key clients through regular visits, providing product updates, and addressing concerns promptly
- Ordering supplies, specialty electrodes, equipment
- Ensures that QA metrics are met by all team members
- Responsible for the P&L of my territory and give regular updates to leadership
- Forecasts procedure volumes and produces a budget to operate within
CNIM, R.EEGT
Arkansas Children's Hospital
08.2015 - 11.2016
- My primary responsibility is providing reliable intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring for orthopedic and neurosurgery services
- Our cases typically posterior spinal fusions with instrumentation, anterior or posterior cervical fusion, Growth Guidance Technique-VEPTR placement and or lengthing, MAGIC Rod implantation, Chiari decompressions, complex tethered Cord Releases, posterior fossa tumor resections, and epilepsy surgery
- The modalities I offer are: BAER, VEP, SSEP, tEMG,sEMG, TcMEP, D-Wave recording, CNAP (brachial plexus), pedicle screw testing, and cranial nerve EMG, and Electrocorticography
- I am a senior tech with in my department
- I am point person within the epilepsy monitoring unit when I am not monitoring in the operating room guiding other techs with long term EEG recording and assisting physicians with identifying abnormalities
- I have a great relationship with my supervisor and my team
- The surgeons and physicians have great confidence in my technical skills
CNIM
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
12.2014 - 08.2015
- Provide IONM in a level one trauma academic center with a large neurosurgical staff in addition to orthopedics spine and vascular surgeon services
- Our lab performed monitoring for an average of 75 cases per month approximately
- Surgeries would include posterior spinal fusion with decompression, ACDF, PCDF, TLIF, skull base tumor resection with varying approaches, frontal lobe tumor resection with Exoscope, skull base aneurysm clipping, AVM resection, carotid endartectomy (CEA), microvascular decompression, and CPA tumor resection
- I shared call for after hours and weekends to cover any emergent cases that arose
CNIM, R.EEGT
Arkansas Children's Hospital
06.2007 - 12.2014
- I began my training in neurophysiology in 2007 at Arkansas Children's Hospital
- I had aspirations to learn EEG and further my training to ultimately provide intraoperative neurophysiology
- I studied and trained while acquiring enough studies to sit for my EEG board while simultaneously training in intraoperative neurophysiology
- After passing the R.EEGT boards one year later I passed the CNIM board exam on the first attempt
- Arkansas Children's Hospital is a teaching facility therefore neurologists willing provided education in reading and interpreting IOM
- Cases included posterior and anterior fusion and spinal deformity correction, posterior fossa tumor resection, chiari decompression, cervical fusion, complex tethered cord release, and epilepsy surgery
- There I gained the rare experience of monitoring the pediatric population which has it's own set of challenges at times
- I shared twenty-four-hour call coverage for after hours or emergent cases
- I kept the surgeon informed of the status of responses throughout IOM
- Modalities included: TcMEP,SSEP,E-Cog, awake craniotomy E-Cog, EMG, EEG, CN-EMG, and BAER
Skills
- Customer Service
- Client Relations
- Sales presentation
- Project Management
- B2B Sales
- Marketing
- Product/Service Demonstration
- Industry Knowledge
- Contract Negotiations
- Personnel Management
- Operational Planning
- Networking
Certification
- Certified Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring- CNIM
- Registered EEG Technologist- R.EEGT
- CPR
Affiliations
American Society of Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists
Timeline
Territory Business Manager, CNIM, R.EEGT
Advanced Monitoring Services
11.2016 - Current
CNIM, R.EEGT
Arkansas Children's Hospital
08.2015 - 11.2016
CNIM
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
12.2014 - 08.2015
CNIM, R.EEGT
Arkansas Children's Hospital
06.2007 - 12.2014
Similar Profiles
GOLFREDO MURILLOGOLFREDO MURILLO
Sr Program Manager R&D at BD Advanced Patient MonitoringSr Program Manager R&D at BD Advanced Patient Monitoring
Peter McElroyPeter McElroy
Data Administration at Advanced Independent MonitoringData Administration at Advanced Independent Monitoring
Ujjwal SharmaUjjwal Sharma
Sales Consultant at SIS Alarm monitoring and Response Services Pvt. Ltd.Sales Consultant at SIS Alarm monitoring and Response Services Pvt. Ltd.
Chloe CrouchChloe Crouch
Registered Nurse III at Arkansas Children’s HospitalRegistered Nurse III at Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Tim Mahmud CHOTim Mahmud CHO
General Manager at Days Inn Little Rock Medical CenterGeneral Manager at Days Inn Little Rock Medical Center