Anamika Bisht
Summary
Public health specialist and experienced Optometrist providing optometry care to patients with exceptional
customer service skills and passion for improving patients’ vision. Adept at performing all areas including
design, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation. Excellent communication skills
and advocate for educating patients about their eye health and food habits. Proven success in bolstering
teaching, advocacy, social mobilization, and public enlightenment campaigns for supplementary eye camps
activities and screening for cataract. Motivated intern offering outstanding innovative and leadership abilities in
advanced education and training in low vision patients.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Intern, Public Health Consultant
Visually Impaired Foundation of Georgia, VIFGA
Woodstock, GA
10.2021 - Current
- Skilled in various aspects of research including background research, literature reviews, and annotated bibliographies
- I have contributed to the development of research and evaluation plans, preparing research protocols and materials for Institutional Review Board review for JSU
- Hands-on experience in collecting primary data through various methods such as conducting interviews, focus groups, or surveys, and participating in site visits
- Additionally, I am proficient in quantitative research activities, including survey design, data coding and management, data cleaning, validation, and analysis
- Developed low vision assessment and intervention skills with respect to identifying appropriate optical and non-optical compensatory strategies and participated in reviewing documentation of treatment therapy outcomes as a result for specific discipline
- Identified stakeholders necessary to impact social and economic policies for visually impaired by participating in professional development trainings in rural areas of Georgia, grant-writing and attending community wide fund-raising activities with strategic planning and analysis
- Reviewed, compiled & documented data outcomes for older blind services in rural Georgia virtually and in person
- Participating in public health programs regarding importance of eye health and low vision rehabilitation with team collaboration by participating in health fairs and community education events.
Graduate Assistant
Louisiana State University Shreveport, LSUS, LSUS India Studies
Shreveport, LA
09.2017 - 12.2019
- Assisting as a forum for students to engage and learn about Indian culture by bringing events like India Night,
- Holi event, Diwali Night, and Cricket tournament to campus with the help of community
- Provide assistance in designing to develop the skills of cross-cultural awareness and communication through participating events in school as well as in the community and also by making students aware of courses offered by the India Studies
- Strong ability to liaise with external resources as a means of strengthening recruitment and retention levels improving community relations and upholding exceptional standards in academic excellence.
Intern
Louisiana Association for the Blind, Low Vision Rehabilitation Center
Shreveport, LA
01.2019 - 06.2019
- Developed low vision assessment and intervention skills with respect to identifying appropriate optical and non-optical compensatory strategies by observing orientation and mobility training, bioptic training and braille instruction and participated in reviewing documentation of treatment therapy outcomes as a result for specific discipline
- Identified stakeholders necessary to impact social and economic policies for visually impaired by participating in professional development trainings, grant-writing meetings and attending community wide fund-raising activities with strategic planning and analysis
- Reviewed, compiled & documented data outcomes for older blind services
- Participated in public health programs regarding importance of eye health and low vision rehabilitation with team collaboration by participating in health fairs and community education events.
Clinical Optometrist
Ganga Ram Hospital
New Delhi
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Retina Clinic
- Provides direct care to patients in a responsible, respectful, and caring manner, i.e., independently diagnoses all optometric and ocular problems through external and internal physical evaluation of the eye and surrounding tissues, detects neuromuscular impairment or anomalies of binocular function; treats visual disorders through examination, prescription of corrective lenses and vision training
- Performed examination of the eye by automated refractor, measured intraocular pressure by application tonometry, performed corneal measurements by keratometer, performed automated visual fieldtesting
- Integrated non mydriatic fundus camera to patient flow, resulting in enhanced imaging of retinal pathology and improved reimbursement for related medical visits.
Clinical Optometrist
Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
New Delhi
05.2013 - 12.2015
- Performs and supervise interns for comprehensive eye exams, reviewing patient's history, selecting, and administering specialized tests and measurements and administering non-medical/surgical treatments
- Designs and implements individual treatment programs and evaluation of cornea in eye bank
- Pre-operative and post-operative patient management for Lasik, cataract, corneal, glaucoma, and retinalsurgeries
- Support the collaboration and integration of private and charity medical services and programs for clinical care, project management and research to enhance the quality of life across the visual continuum of care
- Engage in collaborative scholarly research efforts in non-profit organization
- Provides leadership that supports hospital and departmental policies and goals, and influences change in the health care delivery system
- Proposes and implements strategies to assist in the advancement of Optometric practice in the delivery of care to consumers
- Worked in a public education outreach focused on visual blindness in rural part of Delhi.
Optometrist, Optical Store
Vision Express
Bangalore
09.2012 - 03.2013
- Recording and measuring vision as well as testing eye function with advising and educating patients of contact lenses care and complications, safety eye ware, visual hygiene, work ergonomics
- Responsible for all refractive eye services and associated patient care and retained 70% of the patients during the initial transition
- Help patients in selecting optical frames and suggests type of lens that will be beneficial and comfortable in store and in eye camps with the best sales revenue.
Education
Masters - public health
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) / LSU Health Science Center
01.2019
Bachelor’s - clinical optometry
Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth
01.2012
Doctor of Public Health -
Jackson State University
Skills
- PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SPSS, SAS, Written communication, Public Speaking, Training,
- Interpersonal Skill, Google suite
Affiliations
- Member, Sisters in Public Health (SIPH), since 2023
- Member, American Academy of Optometry (AAOPT), since 2023.
- Member, Society for Public Health Association (SOPHE), since 2022.
- Member, American Public Health Association (APHA), since 2020.
- Member, Society for Public Health Association (DELTA SOPHE), since 2017.
- Member, Indian Optometric Association (IOA), since September ,2014.
- Member, Him-Shree Foundation, Haldwani, India, since September 2015.
- Member, Mountain Forum, Nepal.
- Life Member of Indian Red cross society, Uttarakhand.
Accomplishments
- Poster presentation on Importance of Dietary Intake and Diabetic retinopathy: A systematic Review in vision section, SOPHE 2023
- Poster presentation on Importance of Dietary Intake and Diabetic retinopathy: A systematic Review in vision section, APHA 2022
- Part of Roundtable presentation on The Vision Tales Project: An intersection of Art
- Public Health and
- Optometry to improve eye health Literacy in vision section, APHA 2020
- Online Course on IVI Young Leadership Program 2020 from India Vision Institute
- Appreciated in helping ‘DELTA SOPHE’ in LSUS, March 23rd, 2018
- Appreciated by Dr
- Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital for supporting Eye Bank in various activities in 2014 &
- Awarded Gold Medal in bachelor’s in clinical optometry on April,2013
- Best Optometrist for the month in Vision Express November 2012
- First annual MPH Interprofessional Education Event is Friday, October 25th at LSU health ScienceCenter
- Joint paper presented on ‘Promotion of Right to Sight towards Vision for all through the Collective
- International Efforts: An Overview’ in a national seminar entitled “Human Rights and the State of Health in
- India: Quest for Social Equity; With Special Reference to Mountain Areas” held at Haldwani in2013
- Joint paper presented on ‘Development of Village Vision Centers in Rural and Mountain Region of
- Uttarakhand towards Vision for All’ in a national seminar entitled “Human Resource Development for Health
- Services by Utilization of Open & Distance Learning in India; with special reference to rural & mountain areas held at Haldwani, 25 -26 August 2012
- Made a poster presentation on ‘Anti-Fatigue Lenses’ in 35th ‘All India Optometry Conference’, at Jaipur,
Timeline
Intern, Public Health Consultant
Visually Impaired Foundation of Georgia, VIFGA
10.2021 - Current
Intern
Louisiana Association for the Blind, Low Vision Rehabilitation Center
01.2019 - 06.2019
Graduate Assistant
Louisiana State University Shreveport, LSUS, LSUS India Studies
09.2017 - 12.2019
Clinical Optometrist
Ganga Ram Hospital
01.2016 - 01.2017
Clinical Optometrist
Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
05.2013 - 12.2015
Optometrist, Optical Store
Vision Express
09.2012 - 03.2013
Masters - public health
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) / LSU Health Science Center
Bachelor’s - clinical optometry
Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth
Doctor of Public Health -
Jackson State University