Sentient Expertise

• Expertise- Neurological and Neurophysiological

At Sentient, more than 50% of our surgical neurophysiologists have masters or doctorate level degrees in the biomedical/clinical sciences, all are CNIM certified or eligible, and many have additional clinical experience with EEG, EP, chiropractic, or nursing backgrounds.

 Providing continuous neurological consultative supervision is our staff of full time neurologists who are generally board certified and have subspecialty fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology.

Together with a third member, the Senior Supervisory specialist (an exceptionally experienced, medically qualified neurophysiologist who also oversees the case from a technical standpoint), these form the Neuromonitoring Team that partners with the surgeon and anesthesiologist to provide protection for the patients' nervous system.

 Sentient's rigorous QA program assures compliance with institutional credentialing standards and compliance with Joint Commission requirements.

• Expertise-Operational and Educational

Education and training are directed by Dr Chuck Yingling, a past president and founding member of the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring who pioneered many of the techniques in use today. Dr Yingling is a prolific author on the subject of IONM and is a former director of Neurophysiological Monitoring University of California San Francisco and Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Assuring operational excellence is Ms. Sabrina Galloway a past President of the American Society of Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists who started as one of the very first IONM technicians, and has first hand experience of running complex IONM operations over many years.  Ms Galloway is assisted by Cathleen Zippay a Mayo clinic -trained surgical neurophysiologist and former President of the American Society of Electrodiagnostic Technologists. Four members of the Sentient Practice have served as either Presidents/or board members of ASNM.

Together with the QA program, the experience and subspecialty training of our consulting neurologists and surgical neurophysiologists, this assures unparalleled monitoring quality for patients.

• Expertise- Research and Academic


Led by Dr Stephen Oppenheimer, formerly of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and with Professorial appointments at Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania State Universities, an internationally-recognized neuroscientist, Sentient academic neurologists and senior neurophysiologists publish annually in high impact peer reviewed journals. For two consecutive years, Sentient has been awarded the research prize of the ASNM. Sentient academic staff are reviewers for over 30 peer-review professional journals in clinical medicine, and basic sciences, and our staff serve on the editorial boards of several international neurological/neurophysiological journals and societies.

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