SRAVANI KONATHAM, MBBS, MPH
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EDUCATION
Master of Public Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Certificate GPA: 3.91 Aug 2021 – May 2023
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) GPA: 3.75 Aug 2012 – Mar 2019
Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, Telangana, India
SKILLS
Programming languages: SAS, RStudio, SQL(MySQL), Python, ArcGIS, MAXQDA
Epidemiologic skills: Infectious disease modeling in R, statistical analysis using linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression, survival analysis, and disease mapping in ArcGIS, literature review.
Computer skills: REDCap, Covidence, Endnote, EMR, PowerChart, EPIC, Asana, MS Office
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Emory University SOM, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Pediatric Emergency Medicine July 2023- Present
Clinical Research Coordinator 2 – Sickle Cell Treatment with Arginine Therapy (STArT), Prompt Bolus
Screening ED track board in EPIC EMR and enrolling subjects in STArT, a Phase-3 double-blinded randomized clinical trial as lead RC studying the effect of Arginine in Sickle Cell Disease Pain
Obtaining informed consent and assent and administering PRO’s, Symptoms questionnaire on REDCap
Randomizing the subject and collecting study labs and processing the blood samples according to study protocol and storing them in Biorepository
Clinical data management and analysis in R to determine the feasibility of recruitment and retention of adolescent individuals with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and to identify potential risk factors for the development of chronic SCD pain.
Informing the pharmacy of the study drug and making sure the study drug is given on time.
Enrolling subjects in Prompt Bolus, a randomized clinical trial across 45 sites studying if balanced fluids are better than 0.9% NS in suspected Sepsis patients for overall mortality rate.
Maintaining source documents in the study binder and facilitating monitoring visits
Emory University, School of Medicine – Department of Pulmonology Jul 2022 – May 2023
Research Fellow – Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
Develop code in SAS to identify outlier data based on clinical criteria in a dataset of over 100,000 ICU observations to predict sepsis.
Perform data cleaning, data piping, and longitudinal data analysis.
Score, and analyze EMR to understand the nature of the outliers and impute.
Perform title and abstract review, full-text review, extract data, conduct quality assessments, and consensus review for systematic review and meta-analysis of predicting Sepsis using machine learning models in Covidence.
Emory University Hospital – Department of Cardiology Sep 2021 – Apr 2023
Clinical Research Coordinator – Emory Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Outcomes (EPICORE)
Coordinate with the principal investigator and sponsors of the Manage HF trial to facilitate daily trial activities and ensure compliance with research protocols.
Screen patient records in electronic medical records (Power Chart and EPIC) and physician referrals to identify prospective candidates for research studies.
Obtain informed consent and administer QOL, FFQ, and REDCap surveys on iPads and assist research participants in navigating the surveys with electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment (eCOA) and electronic Patient Reported Outcomes(ePRO)
Complete and audit source documents and eCRF and report serious adverse events (SAE) to the sponsor.
The University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital – Department of Hemato-Oncology May 2022 – Aug 2022
Visiting Physician Scientist- Go-EXCAP Study
Provided direct patient care by conducting monitored physical examinations, evaluations, and assessments.
Collected patient medical history reports and examination results and explained procedures and test results.
Developed a virtual short physical performance battery to improve disease surveillance with better screening and reporting options in myeloid malignancies and co-authored a manuscript for it.
Rollins School of Public Health – Department of Global Health Mar 2022 – May 2022
Graduate Research Assistant – Global Fortification Data Exchange (GFDx)
Analyzed the Fortification data of 54 African countries through FFI, Global Fortification Data Exchange (GFDx), World Bank, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) databases.
Updated information on disease burden, grain availability, milling structure, production data, and other factors.
Communicated globally with food fortification legislation experts and performed quality control of country fortification standards in the GFDx database.
Norman Regional Health System (Norman, Oklahoma)- Department of Endocrinology Jan 2021 – Feb 2021
Medical Extern
●Administered direct patient care and worked on insulin pumps, DexCom, and various continuous glucose monitoring systems and assessed ASCVD scores, FRAX scores, and hypogonadism.
●Managed PCOS, osteoporosis, hypertension, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and transgender care under physician supervision
●Presented cases on subacute thyroiditis, renal cell carcinoma, hypopituitarism, MEN syndrome, and celiac disease.
Indira Children's Hospital, Telangana, India - Department of Pediatrics Nov 2020 – Jun 2021
Physician
Treated various pediatric emergencies like snake poisoning, status epilepticus, foreign body aspiration, and burns.
Rendered outpatient services by treating upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, asthma, bronchiolitis, neonatal jaundice, pre-term baby management, and birth asphyxia.
Kamineni Hospitals, Narketpally, India Mar 2017 – Feb 2019
Clinical Intern
Completed clinical rotations in 8 departments of the hospital and consulted in 10 medical camps.
Took patient history, administered physical examination, ordered labs, arrived at a diagnosis, and guided management under the supervision of an attending physician.
Performed various procedures like I.V. access, wound dressings, suturing, and suture removal, cast application and removal, Foley catheterization, CPR, central line placement, and administering blood product transfusion.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami, Florida Feb 2021- May 2021
Assisted people who signed up for the COVID-19 vaccine with logistics of the vaccine camp and confirmed receipt of shot.
Mission Indra Dhanush, Nalgonda, India
Vaccine Navigator May 2017–Aug 2017
●Administered vaccines and educated the community on hygiene and healthy lifestyle practices.
●Participated in community outreach sessions with nursing staff and checked vaccine records of children to identify missed vaccines, following which we administered catch-up vaccines to them.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
CARE International (NGO)– CHIVI WASH Project – Capstone Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
Worked on the CHIVI WASH project, conducted from 2014 to 2017 in Zimbabwe on what factors have most impacted the sustainability of sanitation-based outcomes in 2021 in a team of six students.
Used mixed methods and conducted quantitative data analysis in SAS by collinearity, interaction, and confounding assessments and then did logistic regression on the CHIVI dataset on the research question of whether toilet safety and toilet distance impact the sustainability of latrine use and ODF status 3 years after the completion of the project.
Gave a full and brief report with recommendations to CARE and presented PowerPoint with the team and individual posters.
Web Scraping and NLP (Python – Beautifulsoup, NLTK) Aug 2022 – Dec 2022
Performed web scraping of more than 200 product reviews of two popular consumer products.
Analyzed reviews to filter 20 unique features of products and presented recommendations to improve.
CERTIFICATIONS
CITI training: Social/Behavioral Focus, Biomedical Focus, GCP, Health Privacy & Information Security
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), American Heart Association
HIPAA Training, Emory Intercultural Leadership Program, EGHI 2022 Intramural Global Health Case Competition
ECFMG
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
In-person short physical performance battery (SPPB) and virtual SPPB in older adults with myeloid malignancies
Blood Advances Journal · Feb 17, 2023
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S247395292300085X
Substance Use Disorders and Risk of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease: Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database
Europe PMC · Sep 27, 2022
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202209.0417.v1
A 65-Year-Old Man with Parathyroid Independent Hypercalcemia Due to Renal Cell Carcinoma and Resolution of Hypercalcemia Following Nephrectomy - Proposed Mechanisms of Hypercalcemia with Renal Cell Carcinoma
Endocrine Practice · Jun 15, 2021
https://www.endocrinepractice.org/article/S1530-891X(21)00811-9/fulltext
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eprac.2021.04.652
An Unusual Case of Hypopituitarism in a 68-Year-Old Man with a Normal Appearing Pituitary Gland and a Remote History of Severe Headache Attributed to Possible Apoplexy
Journal of the Endocrine Society · May 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1166
A 33-year-old woman with severe Subacute Thyroiditis post COVID-19
Semantic Scholar · Feb 19, 2021
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2021.29118.lb.abstracts.