Dylan Back Email & Phone Number

Mineola, New York, United States

• Work up patients by collecting history of present illness, administering numbing and dilating eye drops and performing visual acuity exams
• Assist with eye injections by prepping patients with numbing and betadine drops, holding eyelids and setting up syringes
• Keep a detailed inventory and assign each drug to the specific patient intended while checking for insurance coverage
• Scribe for the physicians, recording their exams into the electronic health record

• Room patients and obtain history of present illness
• Brief and prepare physician before he/she visit with patient
• Catalog all details into electronic health records
• Sanitize exam rooms and sterilize procedure equipment
• Assist physicians with fluoroscopic procedures
• Prep patients before and after procedure

• Compiled relevant and reliable sources from scientific databases (i.e. Sportdiscus, PubMed, Google Scholar) for research on sleep health among college athletes into literature reviews for the purpose of manuscript.
• Analyzed health outcomes of NFL players by analyzing graphs, tables and other manuscripts to form a comprehensive literature review
• Designed seven health surveys using Qualtrics for data collection of two NIH funded grants: 1) K01 grant on “Accelerated Cognitive Aging and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury among Former College and Professional Football.
• Collaborated with research assistants across the country to organize and share information on student athlete sleep statistics and NFL athlete health outcomes
• Received training in administering cognitive tests: Test of Premorbid Functioning, Rey Auditory Visual Learning Test, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, Trail Making Test, Digit Span Test, Stroop Color-Word Test

• Downloaded software (i.e. Dolphin, Softdent, Invisalign) on all computers to create an interconnected office space for dentists and office staff
• Scanned insurance information (Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna) into patient database to ensure that records were kept up to date and monitored the Softdent database for inconsistencies in patient information
• Managed billing, expense reporting, and account auditing for healthcare payments

• Shadowed a pediatric and an adult neurologist in their private practice and while on-call in the hospital to gain insight on healthcare activities and the importance of patient-provider relationships
• Achieved vital experience communicating with at-risk populations and delivering difficult news to both children and adults in a sophisticated manner