Fadi El-Turk
London, United Kingdom fadi@fadielturk.com
PROFILE An ambitious and inventive health informatician with three years of solid
experience in the healthcare industry, along with the knowledge and skills of
designing, implementing and evaluating clinical information systems. Now seeking
to respond to new challenges in the research and development area of health
informatics. Driven by improving healthcare by resourcefulness, innovative thinking
and a sharp focus on the needs and environment of stakeholders in healthcare.
CORE Proven ability to undertake, develop and deliver on IT projects of national and
COMPETENCIES local importance, including the areas of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
Proven knowledge and ability to communicate and present key strategic health
informatics issues such as clinician engagement, system interoperability,
feasibility, usability, and acceptability, and patient security and confidentiality.
Comprehensive understanding and first hand experience of working in bio-
health environments, and analysing and managing health data sets.
Proven ability to innovate in arriving at both technical and organisational
solutions. Skills reinforced by frequent attendance of international conferences.
Keen eye for detail and quality. The high standard of achievements is
demonstrated by publications and deployment of systems.
Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
CAREER January – September 2007 University College Hospital Foundation Trust
RECORD
Clinical Physiologist
Performed a wide range of diagnostic tests using specialised equipment on
inpatients and outpatients with respiratory disorders and those who are undergoing
chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Duties included collating and analysing diagnostic
sleep study data, and running clinical audits and reporting for the improvement of
patient care, departmental performance and the compliance to 18-week patient
pathways.
Achievements Led and project managed the design, implementation, delivery and the subsequent
data analysis of a new clinical information system replacing the previous paper-
based system in the laboratory.
IT trained administrative staff on how to use the new clinical information system.
Gained experience in operating Ferraris CPL and PulmoLink pulmonary function
systems for flow-volume loop, gas transfer and total lung capacity tests.
September 2005 – December 2006 Hays PLC
Medical PA and Secretary
Supported various offices at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust including the Department of Urology and the Centre for Neuromuscular
Disease. Acted as an intermediate liaison medium in enabling communication
between patients, doctors, nurses, ward clerks, PCT and other hospital trusts.
Duties included dealing with urgent patient enquiries, coordinating waiting lists,
theatres and admissions. Supervised a team of medical secretaries by mentoring
and delegating workload.
Achievements Was appointed change manager in improving the administrative aspect of discharge
processes in the Department of Urology involving interviews with senior nurses and
ward clerks.
Was appointed implementation specialist for the 5-day turnover period of referrals
graded after they have been received from PCTs or hospitals to secure the smooth
running of the registration process of patients onto the EPR system.
Successfully delivered new information to staff about the new discharge processes in
the Department of Urology by means of verbal presentation and UML diagrams.
Gained time management, organisational and interpersonal skills, and the ability to
work under prolonged pressure and prioritise workloads effectively.
EDUCATION September 2007 – October 2008 City University, London UK
Master of Science in Health Informatics with Distinction
Project: “Using a Mobile Phone to Remotely Monitor High Dependency Patients”
Conducted a pilot study whereby a tele-monitoring system was designed and
implemented for the remote monitoring of patients at multiple bedside terminals
anytime anywhere using WAP technologies. Deliverables included exploring
technological options for the system including client mobile user agents and
standards, and server-side content generators and databases, and conducting
technical and user evaluation of the system.
Course modules included:
Clinical Records and Telemedicine
Practical aspects of capture and exchange of clinical data, and exploring the
role and impact of ICT in facilitating the delivery of healthcare at a distance.
Information for Decisions and Knowledge Management in Healthcare
Formal approaches to decision making activities including evidence based
medicine (EBM), and Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques in healthcare.
Data Analysis with Healthcare Applications
Collecting, verifying and interpreting clinical data.
Databases
Technical survey of data modelling and management using three approaches:
relational, object-oriented and structural-oriented.
2002 – 2005 University College London, London UK
Bachelor of Science in Physiology (2.1)
SKILLS SET Health Informatics – In-depth knowledge of EHRs, HL7, DICOM, PACS, HIE, NPfIT,
SNOMED-CT, SOA, user requirement analysis, ontologies, EBM and data analysis.
Technical – Fully adept at MS Office suite of packages, Internet, Adobe Dreamweaver
and Photoshop, and SQL (MS SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Oracle).
Programming experience – HTML/XHTML, CSS, Java (3 months) and UML.
PUBLICATIONS, 2009 – Guest contributor to The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly newspapers.
AWARDS & 2008 – Website owner of Telemedicine in the Middle East and North Africa.
MEMBERSHIPS Feb 2009 Best Performing Student of MSc Health Informatics in 2007/8.
NHS Information Management and Technology (IM&T) award candidate.
Dec 2008 Member of the British Computing Society (AMBCS).
Nov 2008 World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition attendee in Copenhagen.
Oct 2008 Member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
OTHER Fluent in Arabic (mother tongue), practical knowledge of French and Spanish.