Medical Management

Tianxiang Zhang **** Autumn Hollow Ln

Houston, TX 77041

Cell Phone: 832-***-****

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OBJECTIVE: To obtain a Physician Assistant position in Post-surgical care with the opportunity to continue to enhance my skills and knowledge in the medical field.

SKILLS:

• Two month family practice and occupational medicine experience.

• Six months of experience in pain related management, including CESI, LESI, NSAIDs and steroids

• Closed >200 cases of pain related neurosurgeries including ACDF, PLIF, SCS and CTS as first assistant.

• Proficient in the documentation of all evaluations, care, and services rendered in the medical record

• Proficient in the diagnosis and analysis of patient’s illness from patient’s history and physical exam

• Proficient in maintenance and collection of patients’ records to analyze the progress of treatment

• Proficient to prescribe medication to treat patients with medical and mental disorders

• Proficient to explain and educate the forms of treatment to patients’ family and relatives

CLINICALWORK EXPERIENCE:

Neurosurgery: (08/29/11-present) St. Francis medical center. Cape Girardeau MO

Neurology: (09/01/06-03/01/07) Methodist Hospital. Methodist Neurology Institute. Houston TX. Preceptor: Stanley Fisher M.D.

• Evaluation of patients with Parkinson’s disease, muscle spasm, chronic back pain, migraine and Alzheimer’s disease.

Neurosurgery: (01/03/11-02/03/11) Allegheny General Hospital. Neurosurgery Dept. Pittsburgh, PA. Preceptor: Megan MacShea PA-C

• Evaluation of patients with refractory back pain, trigeminal neuralgia, spinal stenosis, cerebral artery aneurysm, refractory Parkinson’s disease to conservative therapy.

• Assist in the surgeries of microvascular depression (MVD), anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), lumbar discectomy, cerebral artery aneurysm fixation with clipping, electrode implantation of Parkinson’s disease.

Family practice: (08/23/10-09/23/10) Family Medical Care Associates. Ford City, PA. Preceptor: Terrence E. Moore, M.D.

• Evaluation, management and follow up of patients with back pain, migraine, CTS, HTN, DM, major depression and arthritis.

Internal Medicine: (06/02/10-07/08/10) Lindenbaun Perryman & Assoc.-UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA. Preceptor: Jorge Lindenbaum, M.D.

• Evaluation, management and follow up of patients with ACD, STEMI, NSTEMI, HTN, DM, major depression, hyper-, hypothyroidism, asthma, regular check up and HIV.

Psychiatry: (09/27/10-10/10) Psychiatric Care System. Washington, PA. Preceptor: Oscar Urrea. M.D.

• Evaluation and management of patients with schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar and anxiety disorders

• Proficient in the adjustment of psychotherapeutic drugs to effectively develop individualized treatment plans

Pediatrics: (11/01/10-12/09/10) Hope Pediatrics. Seneca, PA. Preceptor: Glenn G Hamm M.D.

• Diagnosis and management of patients with URI, Strep pharyngitis, OM, OE, pneumonia, acute bronchitis, infectious mononucleosis, fever, ADHD, and autism

• Skilled in the rapid strep test, and otoscopy

General Surgery: (07/12/10-08/12/10) Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC. Bariatric & General Surgery Centers. Pittsburgh, PA. Preceptor: Ramesh C. Ramanathan M.D.

• Evaluation and education of patients for pre- and s/p op patients with bariatric surgery.

• Assist in laparoscopic surgeries in GBP, gastric band, cholecystectomy, appendicitis and herniorrhaphy

Emergency Medicine: (04/25/11-05/26/11) Ruby Memorial Hospital-Emergency. Morgantown, WV. Preceptor: Allison Tadros M.D.

• Diagnosis, ordering diagnostic labs and management of patient with chest pain, SOB, fracture, psychiatric crisis, abdominal pain, syncope, vertigo, kidney stone, cholecystitis, DKA, etc.

• Suturing skin laceration, using FAST (ultrasound) to assess trauma of patients under supervision

Woman’s Health: (02/07/11-03/11) Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC. Emergency Dept. Pittsburgh, PA. Preceptor: Lauren C. Reiner, PA-C

• Diagnosis and management of patients with abdominal pain, UTI, STD, PID, spontaneous abortion, DUB, gestational HTN, ectopic pregnancy, ovarian cyst rupture, and hyperemesis gravidarum

• Proficient in performing pelvic examinations and wet prep, especially in the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis, gonorrhea and chlamydia infection

EDUCATION:

MPAS: Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA. Graduation Date: 07/15/11

PhD: Neuropharmacology. Department of Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School. Tokyo, Japan. May 1999

MD: Binzhou Medical University Binzhou, China. 1983.

CERTIFICATION:

Certificate of Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (2007)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Postdoc Associate (11/11/99 - 7/30/09) Project: Study of the effects of Nicotine on hippocampus and midbrain neuron discharging in free moving rats and mutant mice using tetrodes. PI: John A. Dani PhD Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX.

Visiting Scholar and PhD student: 04/30/1994-04/30/1999. Project: Mossy fiber sprouting of epilepsy model in kindled animals. PI: E. Maru PhD. Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School. Tokyo, Japan.

MS student, teaching assistant & instructor: 09/83-03/94. Mechanism of acupuncture. Courses taught: Systems Physiology, electrophysiology. Department of Physiology. Xian Medical University and BMU. Xian, China.

General residency: 07/15/82-07/18/83. Binzhou Medical University (BMU) Affiliated Hospital. Binzhou, China.

PUBLICATIONS:

T. Zhang. L. Zhang, A. G. Siapas, F.M. Zhou and John Dani (2009) Nicotine Differently Alters Dopamine Signaling in the Dorsal Stimulation and Nucleus Accumbens Shell. J. Neurosci. 29(13) 4035-43.

HONORS, REWARDS AND GRANTS: Sasagawa Rewards. 1994.

LANGUAGES: English, Chinese and Japanese.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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