Mustafa Zahmak, M.D.

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Medical Specialist

Four years of working in the medical field as a physician and a medical

interpreter. Excellent communication skills with supervisors, colleagues,

supervisees, and public. Excellent observation and analysis skills. Goal-

directed, confident, focused, and disciplined. Four years of medical

training, teaching, and communication. Received, communicated with,

treated, observed, and translated from/to more than 2500 patients. Lectures

on 140 medical students, and presented 300 medical slides and kodochromes.

Establish rapport quickly. Exposed to different cultures and. Fluent in

Arabic.

Education

Fulbright Scholar - Fulbright Scholar (2011)

Western Kentucky University - Bowling Green, KY

Master of Public Health (MPH), August 2013 Graduation

Baghdad University - Baghdad, Iraq

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.Ch.B.), 2001-2007

Commendations: Ranked Third out of 83 in graduating class

Professional Experience

WKU hEALTH sERVICES - Western Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA

Intern May 2013 to August 2013 (still working)

Constructing and evaluating health educational programs on different health

topics, develop flyers, fact sheets and other community outreach materials,

collect and analyze data, and evaluate different health educational

programs, generate reports

Al-Kindy MEdical School and Teaching Hospital - Baghdad, Iraq

The school employs over 700 medical professionals and support staff

including 140 doctors to teach 400 medical school students in a British-

style curriculum with English as the language of instruction

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Feb 2010 to Aug 2011

Taught practical pathology to third and fourth year medical students

Key Results:

. Taught 140 students of which 130 progressed to the fifth year of medical

school

. Presented 300 different pathology slides and kodachromes

. Lectured students on over 150 diseases

. Assisted in presenting annual forensic medicine teaching sessions

Medical City Complex - Baghdad, Iraq

Largest medical complex in Iraq and includes six hospitals encompassing

every medical specialty

Medical Intern, Feb 2008 to Feb 2010

Received, treated, and discharged patients as necessary from their

respective medical or emergency departments

Key Results:

. Served calls in internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, and

gynecology/obstetrics during the first year

. Served calls in surgical specialty wards including orthopedic, urology,

plastic surgery, thoracovascular, dialysis, neurology, RCU, CCU, ICU, and

ENT during the second year

. Independently supervised up to 80 patients simultaneously

. Acted as assisting physician in 80 surgeries

. Prepared pre-operative and post-operative measures for over 200 surgical

patients including preparing surgical rooms, prepare patients surgically

and following them up postoperatively

. Served calls on over 1500 in-patients and 1000 critical patients in ER

Dept.

. Regularly translated to and from Arabic and English while communicating

with patients

Key Skills

. Tolerance for stress

. Time management

. Communicate across barriers

. Ability to work in multicultural group

. Establish rapport quickly

. Enhanced listening ability

. Verbal and written communication skills

. Patience

. Understanding cultural complexity

. Coping with difficulty and rejection

. Acceptance of responsibility for actions

Additional Skills

. Completion of CITI Course in The Protection of Human Research Subjects

. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

. SPSS statistics for data analysis, and "R" programming language

. Able to run and interpret descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard

deviation, others)

. Able to run and interpret bivariate and multivariate data analysis

License and Certificates

. DR (physician): Iraqi Medical Association

. BLS (CPR certificate): American Heart Association- KY

. BLS (CPR certificate): Iraq Ministry of Health

Honors and Awards

Fulbright Scholar - Fulbright Scholar (2011)

Master of Public Health (MPH), August 2013 Graduation

CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIP GRANTEE (2011)

Master of Neuroscience, University College London, UK

HIGHER COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQ (HCED) SCHOLARSHIP

GRANTEE (2011)

*Have been granted all the three fully funded scholarships above

simultaneously, but have chosen Fulbright

FLAG CARRIER For having the highest GPA upon graduation at Western Kentucky

University May 2013

BEEN ON DEAN'S AND PRESIDENT'S LIST UPON GRADUATION (2007) for outstanding

6 years' achievement

AWARD FOR FIRST THREE GRADUATES bestowed by Iraq President, Vice President,

Prime Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Education, Chancellor,

Dean, and Iraqi Medical Association (2007)

FIVE TIMES HONORED by the medical center when I was serving as an intern

for outstanding work and saving critical patients' lives as well as serving

non-paid extra times (2008-2010)

AWARD bestowed by Dean of Medical School (2011) given for our department

for achieving best outcomes over 2010

Languages

Fluent in speaking, listening, reading, and writing English and Arabic

professional affiliation

. Kentucky Public Health Association (KPHA)

. International Iraqi Medical Association (IIMA)

. Iraqi Medical Association (IMA)

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