Ferdousi Sultana

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Professional summary: Worked as a medical microbiologist for 10+ years of successful experience in different diagnostic laboratories of hospital setting and academic institutes. Strong knowledge and technical skill for efficient planning of workflow in Microbiology laboratory. Actively evaluate laboratory workflow for continuous improvement to enhance effective service for patients.

Skills:

Managerial skill: Ability to delegate task and workload in a manner that ensures the timely completion of testing scheduled laboratory task. Working knowledge of current CLSI documents.

Laboratory tasks include but not limited to: routine laboratory maintenance, SOPs preparation and yearly reviews, resolve daily trouble shooting, maintenance of inventory, and various projects.

Microbiology lab internal and external quality control, safety, proficiency testing, staff training, competency, scheduling, and participate in laboratory accreditation. Collaboration with Infection control and Antibiotic stewardship committee.

Routine lab work in clinical microbiology laboratory:(Bacterial staining, Culture, Antibiotic sensitivity), Microscopic analysis of Urine, stool, CSF and other body fluids, Fungal culture and microscopy, Mycobacterium culture and AFB staining, ELIZA and direct agglutination tests. Collecting and culture of environmental specimens (air, water, soap and other materials), Experience on Phoenix, Vitek 2, EVOLIS, BD BacTec blood culture, and GeneXpert, API, conventional antibiotic sensitivity tests.

Molecular techniques: DNA isolation, PCR, Restriction and ligation, transformation, Sequencing, Hybridization, Southern blotting, Pulse Field gel Electrophoresis. Experience with Laboratory Information System (LIS).

Ability to work with and Validation/verification of laboratory equipment (Phoenix, Vitek-2, BacTec blood culture, Ceipheid GeneXpert and other equipment)

Language known: Bengoli, English, Urdu and Hindi (Partial)

Work Experience:

January 2009-November 2018:

Head of Microbiology laboratory.

Department of Microbiology, Maternal and Children Hospital, Dammam, K.S.A.

Overall supervision and day-to-day operations of the microbiology laboratory bench work (Gram stain and culture of different clinical specimens, Blood, CSF, tissue, stool, urine, respiratory specimens and sterile body fluid culture, antibiotic sensitivity. Serology tests, ELIZA, Urine, stool and body fluid analysis). Collection and processing of environmental specimen, etc.

Making schedule for daily routine work, vacation, and emergency duties.

Responsible external and internal quality control program, training the technical staff to maintain the quality of laboratory, maintenance the Inventory for micro lab. Ordering the new instrument and reagents.

Preparation and correction of SOP for microbiology lab, preparation of yearly antibiogram, and distribute to infection control department.

Responsible for Validation/verification of laboratory equipment

Responsible for overall safety of laboratory.

Active participation during any hospital out break with hospital infection control team.

Reporting all results within TAT and answering to attend phone calls from physicians and resolve their problems. Reporting the Panic results and advice for further tests.

Project management and leader for any project related to microbiology laboratory.

Accountable to Laboratory Director for all microbiology related work.

January 2008 –January 2009:

Lab Director and Head of Microbiology dept.

Eye Specialist Hospital, Dahran, Saudi Arabia.

1.Supervision of all the departments like, Bacteriology, Serology, Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Blood Bank of a Hospital diagnostic laboratory.

2.Training the staffs for bench work, Yearly evaluation of laboratory technologist.

3.Prepared the lab for accreditation, Preparation of SOP, yearly antibiogram, maintenance of inventory, Member of hospital infection control committee.

4.Reporting the final results within TAT and answering to attend phone calls from physicians and resolve problems. Advice the physicians regarding significant laboratory findings and interpretation of laboratory tests.

5.Validation/ verification of Lab instruments.

6.Responsible for solving any trouble shooting in laboratory work.

04/2004- 12/2008: Specialist Microbiologist.

Department of Microbiology, Dammam Regional laboratory, Dammam, K.S.A. This lab is a tertiary laboratory, receiving specimens from all laboratory of eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Worked in all branches of Clinical Microbiology (Mycology, Bacteriology and Serology)

Day-to-day operations of the microbiology bench work (Gram stain and culture of different clinical specimens, Blood, CSF, tissue, stool, urine, respiratory specimens and sterile body fluid culture, antibiotic sensitivity. Serology tests, Urine, stool and body fluid analysis). Collection and processing of environmental specimens (Water, air, soap, surface swab, dialysis fluid etc)

Assist external and internal quality control program, training the technical staff, preparation of yearly Inventory for micro lab.

Active participation during any hospital outbreak with hospital infection control team.

Reporting all results within TAT and answering to attend phone calls from physicians and resolve their problems.

AFB staining, Interpretation, and reporting. Mycobacterium culture, Probe test, PCR

Fungal KOH, Staining, Culture, reporting at genus of species level. Commercial identification and sensitivity of all Yeasts.

Giemsa staining, interpretation and reporting of Plasmodium spp

Microscopy and reporting of Leishmania spp. from tissue by Giemsa stain

Microscopy and reporting of Pneumocystis jiroveci in respiratory specimen.

09/2001- 09/2003: Assistant Professor.

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Abdul-Rahman Bin Faisal University, K.S.A ( before Dammam University):

*Duties: Teaching Microbiology (Lecture and practical) for student of 3rd year Clinical Laboratory science, 4th year Medicine and Nursing courses.

03/1998- 09/2001: Assistant Professor and Lecturer,

Department of Microbiology, Comillah Medical College, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh.

*Duties: Teaching Microbiology (Lecture and practical) for 4th year Medicine.

06/1985-06/1992: Medical officer in Ministry of Health, Bangladesh

Education:

Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan: Ph.D in Medical Microbiology 1998.

National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh: Diploma in Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning 1993

Mymensingh Medical College, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) 1985

Certification: ASCP(M) Microbiology, ID: 25583340

Nationality status: US green card.

Publications:

1.Publication: Determination of 23S rRNA sequences from members of genus Streptococcus and characterization of genetically distinct organisms previously identified as members of Streptococcus anginosus group. Ferdousi Sultana, Youshiaski Kawamura, Xiao-gang Hou, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. FEMS Microbiology letters. Vol. 158, P: 223-230.

2.Specific sequence of Mycobacterium interjectum and detection of species in the members of previously designated as Mycobacterium avium complex. Hirouki Miura, Xiao-gang Hou, Shin-Ei Shu, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. Microbiol. Cult. Collection, Dec 1994; Vol. 10(2): P: 21-28.

3.Development of nested PCR based on v 1 AB sequence to detect the Salmonella typhi. Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Youske Fuginage, Abdul quayum Khan, Ferdousi Sultana, Masaki Miyaki, Kenji Hirose, Hiroyuki Yamamoto and Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. J. Clin. Microbiol. Mar.1995, Vol 33 (33): p: 775-777.

4.Determination of 16S rRNA of Streptococcus Mitis and Streptococcus gordoni and phylogenetic relationships among members of the genus Streptococcus. Youshiaski Kawamura, Xiao-gang Hou, Ferdousi Sultana, Hiroyuki Miura, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. Apr. 1995, Vol. 45 (2) p; 406-408.

5.Transfer of Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectives to Ablotrophia gen. nov. as Ablotrophia adjacens comb. nov. and Ablotrophia defective comb. nov respectively. Youshiaski Kawamura, Xiao-gang Hou, Ferdousi Sultana, Shujun Liu, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. Oct. 1995, Vol. 45 (4) p. 798-803.

6.Evaluation of new streptococcal identification kit “STREPTOGRAM”. Youshiaski Kawamura, Xiao-gang Hou, Ferdousi Sultana, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology. 1995. Vol. 5 (1) p: 4-12.

7.Genetic Identification of members of Genus Corynebacterium at Genus and species levels with 16S rDNA-targeted probes. Xiao-gang Hou, Youshiaski Kawamura, Ferdousi Sultana, Kenji Hirose, Masaki Miyaki, Yoshihito Otsuka, Shigeki Misawa, Toyoko Oguri, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-Machi, Gifu-500, Japan. Clinical laboratories, Social Health Insurance Medical Centre, Shinjulu-ku Tokyo 169, Japan, and Clinical laboratories, Juntendo University Hospital, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan, Microbiol. Immunol. 1997, 41 (6): 453-460., Youshiaski Kawamura,

8.Streptococcus oerores sp. Nov. and Streptococcus infants sp. Nov. new members of Streptococcus mitis group, isolated in human clinical specimens. Youshiaski Kawamura, Xiao-gang Hou, Yoko tolome, Ferdousi Sultana, Kenji Herose, Shujun Liu, Takayuki Ezaki. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40, Tsukasa-machi, Gifu-500, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol.

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