Medical Assistant
Resume:
Abraham Debessai
**** ****** ***, ******, ** ****9
*************@*****.***
PERSONAL PROFILE
• Dedicated, enthusiastic and detail oriented
• Provides quality patient care
• Has a great desire in continuing education and training
ACADEMIC PREPARATION
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology
Certified Ophthalmic Assistant
Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington D.C.
Georgetown University Ophthalmic Medical Personnel Training Program
Addis Ababa University, Natural Science Faculty, Ethiopia 2011
2006
Bachelor of Science in Physics 1992
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Center for Refractive Surgery, Washington D.C.
Ophthalmic Assistant and laser technician
Technician in a refractive surgery and cornea clinic responsible for clinical examination screening, adherence to study protocols, equipment calibration, cleaning, maintenance, and in-service training of any new equipment
Additional duties included patient counseling, contact lens instruction, pre-operative and post-operative care instruction.
Refractive surgery duties included assisting on the laser system in refractive surgery procedures (LASIK, PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK, Custom Lasik, and PTK with MMC treatment) and assisting with surgical instruments for all the above refractive treatments and other minor surgeries.
Duties:
- Evaluate patients, document patient symptoms and complaints and record history of present illness
- Check ocular/medical history
- Check medications and medication allergies
- Perform visual acuity both far and near corrected /uncorrected
- Check current spectacle lensometry
- Pupil examination and measurements (mesopic and photopic pupil measurement)
- Tonometry (intraocular pressure measurement)
- Motility examination (Perform six cardinal gaze eye movement/confrontational visual fields)
- Performed Amsler grid ( check for distortion)
- Check color vision
- Instill ophthalmic drops
- Contact lens insertion and removal
- Schirmer test ( check eye dryness)
- Refractomery
- Ultrasonic pachymetry ( check for corneal thickness)
- Confocal microscopy ( check endothelial cell counts)
Expert in the use of the following equipment: Allegretto Wave Eye Q laser, Intralase Femto laser, multiple topography systems including the Pentacam, Atlas, Orbscan I, Orbscan II, and Tomey, Ultrasonic pachymetry Humphrey visual field, LADAR Vision 4000 laser, Confocal Microscopy, Wavefront analyzers including the LADARWave, VISX Wavescan, and COAS,OCT, Visante Anterior segment OCT, Ocular response analyzer, lensometer, slit lamp biomicroscope, keratometer, Topcon 50Ix Digital Fundus Camera, Goldmann Visual fields, Pupillometer
2006- Present
PARTICIPATED IN TESTING FOR THE FOLLOWING STUDIES
•Optical Quality, Threshold Target Identification, and Military Target Task Performance after Advanced Keratorefractive Surgery
•Lacritin and Heparanase Levels in Human Tears after Laser Refractive Surgery
•Sutureless Cryopreserved Amniotic Membrane Graft (ProkeraTM) and Wound Healing after Photorefractive Keratectomy
•Goblet cell response and dry eye symptoms after LASIK and PRK
•Evaluation of Epi-LASIK in U.S. Army Personnel
RELATED TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Allegretto Wave Eye Q laser
• Intralase Femto laser
• Multiple topography systems including the Pentacam, Atlas, Orbscan I, Orbscan II, and Tomey
• Ultrasonic pachymetry
• Humphrey visual field,
• Confocal Microscopy
• Visante Anterior segment OCT
• Ocular response analyzer
• Lensometer
• Slit lamp biomicroscope
• Keratometer
• Pupillometer
• Nidek Epik 2100, 4500
AFFILIATIONS
• Association of Technical Personnel in Ophthalmology (ATPO) Member
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