Refractive Surgery Coordinator Resume Example

Loden Vision Center is a leading practice both in Nashville and the entire state of Tennessee with 5 locations including two LASIK suites and two ambulatory surgery centers.

December 2011 to September 2013 - Refractive Surgery Coordinator 

• Promoted to this sales-focused position. Duties involved the education for those patients interested in LASIK, PRK, ICLs, clear lens exchanges, and laser cataract surgery, while also retaining many of the responsibilities of the previous position as "Premium" Technician, as detailed below.
• Assigned to train staff monthly during office-wide meetings and technician group meetings. Also provided one-on-one teaching weekly.
• Selected as the representative of Loden Vision Center for various events, community outings, and local awards ceremonies.
• Served as LASIK surgery technician delegated by the medical director to assist doctors learning to operate both the Intralase iFS and the Visx Excimer laser.
• Designed and implemented new surgery schedule to handle increased patient volume.
• Recognized as having the highest closing rate of all refractive coordinators in the practice during 2013.
• Played lead role in increasing sales from $2.21 million in 2011 to $3.38 million in 2012.

October 2009 to December 2011- "Premium" Technician 

• Promoted into this leadership position as primary technician to test all patients interested in LASIK, PRK, clear lens exchanges, and laser cataract surgery.
• Assigned to regularly teach other technicians new skills and how to improve on present skills in both accuracy and efficiency.
• Designated as primary Visx Star S4 IR Excimer laser operator, responsible for operating and maintaining both of the practices excimer lasers.
• Served weekly as an OR technician with duties including overseeing main surgery schedule to ensure smooth patient flow during high volume surgery days, pre-operative and post-operative care, maintaining sterility in surgery, ensuring patient safety during entrance and exit from the operating room, and performing sterile surgical preparations.
• Assisted weekly in femtosecond cataract surgeries as scrub tech during clear corneal incisions and astigmatism-correcting incisions using the iCataract Intralase method.

August2008 to October 2009- Ophthalmic Technician 

• Daily clinical tasks included taking patient history, determining visual acuity, conducting pupil evaluations, muscle evaluations, confrontational and Humphrey visual fields, refractometry, IOP measurements, IOL Masters, topography, keratometry, Orbscans, Wavescans, OCTs, A-scans.