CV.THussain-09-2016

Name:Dr.Tamseela Hussain

Address:9205 W.115th Terrace, Kansas, 66210

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Citizenship:United States

Objectives and Interests:

To enable maximum utilization of my medical and technical background in the field of Medical Informatics and chronic diseases clinical outcomes research, with a vision to transform healthcare using health information technology for education, research, improving health services and reducing health disparities.

Summary of Qualifications:

Excellent development and problem solvingskills in Medical Informatics and Research. Special interest in teaching chronic diseases prevention and improving clinical outcomes with medical data usage. Highly adaptive to new environment and learning new concepts and systems.

Programming Languages: Visual basic, C+++

Database work: SQL and ACCESS

Operating Systems: Windows 9x,2000,XP,Vista, Citrix

Professional Experience:

Independent Consultant Medical Informatics & ResearchJune 2009 to Present

Assisting organizations and private healthcare facilities to improve clinical outcomes using Health Information Technology systems and tools. Special area of focus on developing, testing and implementing electronic health records and patient portal systems. Expertise in developing and managing chronic care registry systems to facilitate clinical research. Reviewing functionality, prioritizing needs, developing a medical data collection and utilization plan for primary and secondary use of clinical data.

E-Services SpecialistApril 2016

King Faisal Hospital & Research Center

Riyadh, KSA

Testing and implementation of Patient portal system at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, a 985-bed tertiary/quaternary care and referral hospital based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is the national referral center for oncology, organ transplantations, cardiac surgery, genetic diseases, and more. The main challenge was increasing awareness of meaningful use of patient portal systems among the Asian population, to register patients, evaluate data privacy and security and to streamline the portal system use, among the 400+ clinicians

Reviewer Special Emphasis PanelAugust 2004

Agency for Health Research Quality (AHRQ)

Rockville,MD

Reviewed and evaluated the scientific and technical merit of applications submitted for transforming healthcare quality through information technology (THQIT) planning grants by AHRQ and National Institute of Health (NIH) to assist healthcare systems in planning for activities that will lead to successful useof Health Information Technology(HIT) to promote and improve patient safety, quality of healthcare and to support community-wide planning processes across multiple healthcare organizations within a local or regional area that will enable these organizations to develop HIT infrastructure .

Chronic Care Coordinator for Health Care DisparitiesMay 2001-June 2004

Community Health Care, Inc.

Davenport, IA

Developed and Tested Cardiovascular Diabetes Electronic Medical System (CVDEMS) and Patient Electronic Care System (PECS) soft waresto implement enhancements for both soft wares from a usability perspective as they were developed.Improved and reportedclinical outcomes in accordance withNational guidelines and JCAHO (Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organization)on a chronic care registry system with Health Disparities Collaborative and Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) reporting. CoordinatedCardiovascular and diabetes specialized clinic days at CHC, Inc focusing on disease prevention and management within the registry to reduce health care disparities.

Clinical AdvisorJan 2002 - June 2004

Patient Information Systems

Rochester, NY

Provided expert recommendation on design, content, and operational questions to resolve issues pertaining to current design and function, prioritization and functionality to be included in the future releases of soft ware to further develop a clinically useful product. Developed a PECS Data dictionaryfor Health Disparities Collaborative with BPHC.

Presenter and Trainer Oct 2002- Feb 2004

Health Disparities Collaborative BPHC &AHRQ

Texas Association of Community Health Center, Inc

Numerous presentations and training sessions for clinicians and chronic care registry usersfor daily clinical usability including data collection and reporting. PECS software implementation at 200+ Community healthcare centers across the United States.

Knowledge Base DeveloperMay 1996-May 1997

Next GenHealth Information Systems

Horsham, PA

Developed clinical workflow templates for ambulatory, private and residency programs including specialties such as pediatrics, family practice, cardiovascular etc. Improved patient care, increased productivity, anddecreased overhead in ambulatory and clinical settings by implementing NextGen software. Served as a conduit between the developer and clinicians.Trained clinicians for Next Gen software usability to streamline daily clinical workflow.

Postgraduate Training:

Postdoctoral FellowshipMarch 2007- March 2009

Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Clinical Internship TrainingFebruary 1994-February 1995

Pediatrics and Family Practice

Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center

Karachi, Pakistan

Education:

MBBS(MD Equivalent)August 1994

Sind Medical College/Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center

Karachi, Pakistan

Bachelors Philosophy Sind UniversityAugust 1990

Pakistan

Courses and Certifications:

  • Grant Proposal WritingMarch 2009

Yale University School of Medicine, CT

  • Fundamentals of Teaching in ScienceApril 2008

Yale Medical School Graduate Teaching Center

  • Scientific Writing Course November 2007

Yale University School of Medicine

  • Translational Medical Informatics CourseOctober 2007

Yale Center for Medical Informatics

  • Clinical Investigative Research Course June 2007

Yale University School of Medicine

Honors and Awards:

  • Two Year Federal Grant Scholarship funded by the National Library of Medicine in Medical Informatics

Yale University,New Haven, CT

  • Undergraduate:

Honors in Philosophy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and English

Research and Publications

  1. Prevalence of clinically probable obstructive sleep apnea in American veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Nadeem R, Ghadai A, Iftikhar S, Lee K, Swaminathan B, Hussain T, Khamis ME, Yousaf M, Turkman B, Qureshi A, MansoorM (2016) HealthyAging Research 5:3. doi:10.12715/har.2016.5.3 March 2016
  1. Impact of Dobutamine in patients with Septic shock: A Meta Regression analysis Nadeem R, Sockanathan S, SinghM, Hussain,T, Kent P, Alreesh SOriginal Investigation The American Journal of Therapeutics 07/ 2015
  1. Impact of Post-traumatic stress Disorder on Compliance to CPAP treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea among American veterans Nadeem R, Ghadai A, Bawaadam H, Nida M, Badi H, Yousaf, M, Khamis ME, Hussain T, Memon R The Austin Journal of sleep disorders 12/2015
  1. Using Vista Electronic Medical Records Data Extracts to calculate the waiting time for Total Knee Replacement Surgery Hussain T, Brandt C, Bell B, Nuzzo J, Erdos JOriginal Investigation The Journalof Arthroplasty. 12/2009
  1. The Yale Guideline Recommendation Corpus: A Representative sample of knowledge content of Guidelines Hussain T, Michel G, Shiffman R,Original Investigation(Lead Article)Int Journal Med Informatics 05/ 2009
  1. How often is Strength of Recommendation Indicated in Guidelines Hussain T,Michel G, Shiffman R.AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 11/2008