SYED ALI HAIDER ZAIDI

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Halifax, NS, B3S 0E3, Canada

acfybf@r.postjobfree.com

Office: 902-***-****

Mobile: 902-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To pursue a challenging career as a health informatician in a dynamic organization that

excels in healthcare and informatics.

To work with an organization to improve the delivery of healthcare.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIS-Clinical Application Specialist with HITS-NS (IWK Hospital, Halifax, NS)

(Nov 2013- To Date)

Working on Nova Scotia Drug Information System (NS- DIS) project

Hands-on experience with HP Application lifecycle Management (ALM)

DIS portal testing using HP Application lifecycle Management (ALM)

Documentation of functional requirements and test cases in ALM for portal testing

Defect identification and triage

Extraction of reports, such as defect reports, using HP Application lifecycle Management

(ALM)

Hands-on experience with Access Database

Hands-on experience with SDE

Pharmacy roll-out activities

Document management using Microsoft SharePoint

Project management activities

System Analyst (IMPACT-AF Project) CDHA and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Canada

(Sept 2013-Nov 2013)

Design, development and analysis of clinical workflows

Process modeling and system evaluation

Health Information system testing (ontology testing using Protégé)

System integration i.e. integration of medical ontologies with SNOMED CT

Development and analysis of Case Report Form (CRF)

Served as a channel of communication between healthcare and IT teams

Research Assistant with the NICHE research group at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS,

Canada (May 2009 – Aug 2013)

Knowledge management and abstracted medical knowledge from paper based medical and

clinical artifacts

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Developed clinical workflows and flowcharts using software such as Microsoft Visio and

Star UML

Developed HL7 V3 compliant Electronic Medical Record (EMR) which eliminates paper

based order entry, prescriptions and lab requisitions

Ontology engineering

Conceptualization, design and development of Clinical Information Systems (CIS) and

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Successfully merged medical ontologies developed in OWL-DL

Successful integration of medical concepts present in ontologies with SNOMED CT codes

Physician in the Emergency Department of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation

(SIUT) (Aug 2008- Jan 2009)

Emergency department workload was 60 to 80 patients per 12 hour shift

Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients mostly related to renal diseases in

emergency department

Management of patients suffering from chronic renal failure (CRF), acute renal failure

(ARF), urinary obstructions, and renal calculi

Physician in the Emergency Department of Fatimiyah Hospital Karachi (Apr 2008-June 2008)

Emergency department workload was 25 to 35 patients per 12 hour shift

Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients in emergency department

Management of all kinds of diseases and medical problems in emergency department

Physician at Civil Hospital Karachi (Aug 2006-Aug 2007)

Worked as a trainee physician along with seniors in Medical and Surgical units, OPD, OT

and in emergency department of Civil Hospital Karachi

Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients

Working experience in various departments i.e. Emergency, Medical, Dermatology,

Surgical, and Orthopeadic units of Civil Hospital Karachi

Professional Training at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (May 2005)

160-credit hour’s extensive training in Surgical Oncology Unit at Shaukat Khanum Memorial

Cancer Hospital And Research Center Lahore, Pakistan

EDUCATION

Master’s of Health Informatics (MHI), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (December

2012)

Master’s Thesis: An OWL Ontology for Modeling HL-7 Compliant Electronic Patient Records

for Chronic Disease Management. (funded by a scholarship from Green Shield, Canada)

Developed an ontology based EMR system, called CD-EMR Ontology. HL7 RIM and CDA were

used to capture the HL7 V3 message without using any parser or intermediate application

Employed knowledge of HL7 version 3 RIM backbone classes and data type properties

Developed a controlled vocabulary of SNOMED-CT in CD-EMR ontology, which provides the

SNOMED-CT code to each medical concept of the record

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Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Dow Medical College, University of

Karachi, Pakistan (July 2006)

Certification St. John Ambulance Emergency First Aid CPR Certificate, (valid until Sep 2014)

HEALTH INFORMATICS SKILLS

I have working knowledge of the following health informatics tools:

Messaging Standard (HL7 V3): Hands-on experience with different flavors of HL7 V3,

such as FHIR, VMR, CeRX and MR2009

HL 7 V3 Clinical Documentation Architecture (CDA): In- depth knowledge and

understanding of how to structure HL7 V3 message using different RIM classes and code

sets to transmit clinical information across health information systems to achieve semantic

interoperability

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): Hands-on experience in documenting

functional requirements, test cases, defects and adding new clients in ALM

Standards of Medical Terminologies: Working knowledge of standards medical

terminologies SNOMED-CT, LOINC, and ICD 9&10

BMC Service Desk Express Suite: Hands-on experience with BMC Service Desk Express

Suite, i.e. logging and closing tickets for various time sensitive issues and events

Microsoft Visio, Star-UML, and MS Project: Hands-on experience on visual tools such

as, Microsoft Visio and Star UML to draw clinical workflows and flowcharts. Proficiency in

MS Project to develop project plans and WBS

Microsoft Office Suite: Full working proficiency and hands-on experience with Microsoft

Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Microsoft SharePoint: Hands-on experience of document management using SharePoint

Semantics Web Tools: Hands-on experience in ontology engineering using Protégé 3.4.8

and evaluation of medical ontologies

Clinical Terminologies: With a clinical background, I possess in-depth knowledge of

medical terminologies, anatomy, physiology, pathology, medicine and surgery.

Statistical and Data Mining Software: Worked with statistical and data mining software

such as SAS and WEKA to apply different statistical methods, to plot graphs, and to study

the hidden patterns in the given data set in order to extract information and use it as

knowledge

Research Methods: Working knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative research

methodologies

Library software: Hands-on experience with maintaining library database using software

like ALEPH currently used in Dalhousie library

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I have knowledge and experience in the following health informatics areas:

a) Messaging Standards (HL7 V3) h) Clinical Research

b) SNOMED- CT, ICD9 & 10 i) Acute Care

c) Electronic Medical Records (EMR) j) Primary Care

d) Knowledge management k) Emergency Care

e) System testing, integration and analysis l) Community Care

f) Business processes and workflows m) Chronic Care (Holistic Care)

g) Project Management (Agile methodologies) n) Medical Science Liaison (MSL)

HEALTH INFORMATICS PROJECTS

Computerization of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) into the CPG Ontology

Worked in collaboration with my peer, on a project of 4 months duration

Studied the paper-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG’s) and abstracted the clinical

knowledge form CPG’s

Leveraged the abstracted knowledge to develop workflow diagrams for CPG’s using

software Star-UML

Utilized the abstracted clinical knowledge and workflows in Computerization of paper based

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) into a pre-existing CPG Ontology

CPG Ontology can be used as a part of Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)

Development of Ontology-based CIS for diagnosis and management of Sexually

Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

Collaborated with 3 peers to successfully develop an Ontology-based CIS for diagnosis and

management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s)

Managed the team as a group leader, distributed tasks among the group members, conducted

group meetings to assess progress, to discuss issues and resolve conflicts, and encouraged

them to meet deadlines

This system can assist healthcare provider in decision making process while treating a patient

suffering from STDs according to evidence-based recommendations

Worked on medical knowledge abstraction, ontology engineering, and system evaluation.

Accomplishment: Successful completion of a 4 months project in 13 week

Assessment of Patient and Information Flow at Capital Health (CDHA)

Collaborated with 2 peers to successfully investigate bottlenecks in patient flow and analyzed

the information flow at Capital Health (CDHA)

Acted as a group leader to assure proper communication between my group and the concern

persons at CDHA, set up meeting for the group to visit CDHA to collect information

Managed the team by distribution of tasks among group members, arrangement of group

meetings to assess progress, to discuss issues, to resolve conflicts, and to encourage them to

meet deadlines

Analyzed the collected information to investigate the process of patient and information flow

at Capital Health (CDHA)

Developed workflow diagrams and flow charts to demonstrate the bottlenecks

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Proposed alternatives to overcome the bottlenecks

Successful completion and presentation of the project to a group of 25

Statistical analysis of the CCHS 2005 dataset to determine the association of diabetes with

various factors such as age, sex, and BMI

Worked independently on a project of 4 months duration

Conducted statistical analysis on Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2005 dataset,

to determine the association of diabetes with various factors

Performed statistical analysis by running different statistical method such as Chi Square,

Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel-Method (CMH1), T-Test, and Logistic Regression using SAS

Plotted histograms and box plot to determine the distribution of data

Data mining of the medical data set to analyze co-morbidities and risk factors associated

with diabetes

Group project of 4 months duration

Analysis of Framingham data set using Software WEKA

To analyze our dataset, in first testing, we used the attribute selection filter with Chi-square

evaluator and ranker method with J48 tree classifier

In second testing, we used Relief F attribute evaluator and ranker method with PART rule

classifier of WEKA version 3-6-3

Successful completion and presentation of the project to a group of 27

PUBLICATIONS

Poster Presentation in MedInfo Conference: 2009: Towards Seperation of Medical and

Workflow Knowledge in Modeling Clinical Guidelines: A Semantic Web based Framework

for Executing Clinical Guidelines

VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

Fire Warden, June 2014 till date, Fire Warden (backup) for 12th floor 5161 George Street

Conference Volunteer, ISHIMR 2013, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Canada

Conference Volunteer, AWoSS 2012, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Canada

Vice President Diagnostic Laboratory, Patient Welfare Association (PWA), 2003-2004

Director Blood Bank Patient Welfare Association (PWA), 2002-2003

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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