Clinical Informatician

OBJECTIVE

To apply my academic medical background and health informatics experience which will give me the basis with which to obtain and excel in a position that offers both personal and professional growth and give me an opportunity to use combined medicine and informatics knowledge to improve healthcare.

EDUCATION

August 2011 Masters of Health Sciences Informatics(M.S), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,MD

August 2009 ECFMG Certificate, 2009

Feb 2008 Damascus University Faculty of Medicine Damascus, Syria

Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D)

2001-2004: Basic Science

2004-2007: Clinical Science

2007 - 2008: Internship

May 2001 Future National School. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

High school degree – along with an honor degree (99.79%)

WORK EXPERIENCE :

Health Informatics Experience :

Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, Maryland ; Nov 2011-present

Chronic Disease Informatics Department (CDIP) ; Research Assistant / Post doctoral fellow

• Enhanced patient education by providing tools (tablets, laptops) that offer education to patients about their disease and improve their knowledge about preventive medicine which successfully decreased hospital readmission rate.

• Improved continuity of care transmission by using IPIPE system that support sending patients’ admission and discharge notes in the hospital inpatient unit to primary care physicians.

• Achieved diversity by translating, and designing medical guideline templates in both English and Arabic language to increase usability of informatics educational tools.

• Initiated time motion study for selected patients in inpatient settings to evaluate how much education they need.

• Proved high satisfaction rate and usability impact of health-related internet (HRI) usage in elderly population

Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, Maryland ;Clinical Informatics researcher May 2011-Oct 2011

• Suggested new solutions to apply diagnostic decision support systems by conducting a systematic review of clinically-applied computerized decision support systems in the Emergency Department.

• Performed in project leadership, information management, Statistical analysis, designing workflow, worksheets and tables.

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland ; Clinical Informatician August 2010 – May 2011

• Developed functional requirements, business case and design an architecture model for HIV decision support system. Furthermore, I helped in designing timeline for Electronic Health Record Implementation.

• Analyzed and evaluated the organizational structure, workflow and functionality of multiple health information and electronic health record systems.

• Evaluated health information systems (Allscripts (ED, E Prescribing), Eclipsys Sunrise CPOE, Meditech) based on different aspects by using multiple frameworks to assess the strengths and limitations.

Medical and public Health Experience :

Johns Hopkins Hospital,Nephrology, Baltimore, Maryland; Medical rotator August 2011- Sept 2011

• Attended daily discussion about patients on service or new admitted patients, shadowing fellows, residents while examining patients. Rotating at the Kidney transplant outpatient clinic.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland January 2011 – May 2011

• Organizational and Behavioral Factors of Patient Safety: Addressed workflow and information collection issues from clinical prospective, including quality measurement and improvement and addressed barriers to improvement efforts.

• Health policy: Designed a strategy to solve healthcare issues by using special approaches.

• Primary care: Evaluated different primary care cases and studied methods for community based health care.

Saati Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; General practitioner May 2008-May2010

• Acquired hands on experience in providing healthcare to patients by taking history and examine patients, discussing the diagnosis and management plan for each patient. Approaching medical procedures and managing patients’ disposition between outpatient and inpatient settings.

Tulane University Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana ; (Internship - clinical rotations) Sept 2007 – Dec 2007

• Practiced in Internal medicine; Endocrinology, Cardiology and Nephrology departments.

• Passed medical skills examination by the end of service.

Damascus University Hospital,, Damascus, Syria ; (Internship - clinical rotation) Feb 2007 – Feb 2008

• Obtained as a junior physician in upon graduation. Performed medical history taking, physical examination, Attending daily morning rounds and weekly grand rounds.

Saati Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; Volunteering assistant July 2006-Oct 2006

• Obtained medical training in internal medicine and surgery departments during medical school.

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Passed USMLE exams (step1, step 2 CK, step 2 CS)

• Passed the Saudi Licensing Examination for Health Specialties, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Active membership in the Research Student Body: helped in organizing weekly discussions over various topics and maintained an actively-expanding network of students within and outside the university.

• Prize for being ranked the 6th of the 20 highest-scoring among all local secondary schools within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Valedictorian certificate in written/verbal advanced English courses obtained from House of Tutors, Austin, Texas. 2002

SKILLS

Language:

• Arabic: native language; English: very good: (reading, writing, speaking)

Clinical Information Systems :

• Certificated user for : Allscripts (ED, E Prescribing), Eclipsys Sunrise CPOE, Meditech

• IPIPE expert : web portal project to connect EPR, Meditech to primary care providers

Computer Programs :

• Excellent in MS Office tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook.

• Excellent in Statistical method Program (STATA) and well-knowledge in electronic chips – extensive full course obtained in 2000.

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