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Mariam Al-Ashbal

Medical Doctor
Baghdad

Summary

Master in Community Medicine with diverse experience as a Medical Doctor across academia, research, public health and clinical specialties. Expert in biostatistical analysis, research methodology, and medical education with a record of mentoring students and supporting their academic development. I am very comfortable with public speaking. Extensive nutrition experience and weight management skills; worked in private clinics with individual patients. Skilled in project management, data analysis, and designing health awareness campaign, Excellent Leader, Communication, and team development skills. Also keen to apply learning and skill to Healthcare access & quality.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Lecturer / Assistant Teacher

Al-Mamoun University College
Baghdad
09.2024 - Current

Roles:

  • Applied Physiology Teaching: Provide theoretical and practical lessons in applied physiology for 2nd graders in a manner that allows a full understanding of the subject.
  • Developing Curriculum: Create and revise curriculum materials, lesson plans, and hands-on activities that meet academic standards and promote student achievement.
  • Advise and mentor students: Serve as an advisor and mentor to students, supporting your students’ academic and personal and professional development.
  • Actively participate in Committee: Actively serve in Students Affairs Committee, which promotes student welfare and addresses academic or administrative issues.
  • Quality Assurance: Participate in the Quality Control Department to Monitor Educational Quality and Institutional Performance

Founder and Owner

Alfeheem Office for Research and Biostatistical Consultations
Remote
12.2022 - Current
  • Strategic Leadership: Set and implement the broader vision and objectives for Alfeheem Office in alignment with its mission to provide services to students and researchers.
  • Biostatistical Consulting: Offer individualized guidance and assistance on biostatistical analysis for students to help them accurately understand and apply data in their studies.
  • Training on Research Methodology: Train clients on the contemporary research methodology and its use in academic and non-academic fields.
  • Social Media Management and Content Creation: Plan and post to Facebook and Instagram to raise awareness of data analysis and research methodology
  • Team Development: Provide the Alfeheem team with the tools, training, and resources to build on their knowledge and skills around research methods and biostatistics.
  • Engagement with Clients: Develop and maintain relationships with students, researchers, and academic professionals to foster trust and collaboration.
  • Project management: Handle the projects for the clients, to make sure the deadlines given are followed, and provide high-quality deliverables
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure accurate and reliable biostatistics analyses and research outputs that the office delivers.
  • Innovation and growth: Discover more tools, techniques and platforms to further develop the services Alfeheem Office provides and its capabilities.
  • Community Building: Create an online platform or facilitate virtual meetups for students and researchers to connect, share experiences, and discuss challenges in biostatistics and research methodology.

An Employee at the CDC/Acute Intestinal Disease Section

Iraq Ministry of Health/Resafa Health Directorate
Baghdad
05.2023 - 07.2024

Roles:

  • Reporting and Analysis of Data: Set up and maintain daily, weekly, monthly and annual reporting on intestinal diseases in the Resafa sector, ensuring accurate and timely data collection.
  • Surveillance and Monitoring: Monitor trends in intestinal diseases to detect outbreaks and used the information to guide prevention efforts.
  • Health Sectors Supervision: Supervise 8 health sectors in Baghdad and guide them to follow the protocols for the management of intestinal diseases.
  • Community Awareness and Education: Create and provide public educational programs around acute intestinal diseases and preventative measures.
  • Collaboration and Coordination: Collaborate with healthcare professionals, government agencies, and community organizations to implement effective disease prevention and control strategies.

Medical Doctor/Nutritional Advisor

Kenzi Beauty Clinic
Baghdad
12.2021 - 09.2022

Roles:

  • Nutrition Education: Educate and promote the importance of healthy eating behaviours, as they are essential for good health and disease prevention.
  • Tailor-Made Meal Planning: Create bespoke nutritional plans based on specific health profiles, lifestyle, and food preferences of each patient.
  • Weight Management: Help people in achieving sustainable and healthy methods for losing or maintaining weight.
  • Patient Counseling: The process involves one-on-one consultation to discuss their dietary concerns, motivating them to modify their current lifestyle, guide them toward healthier habits, etc.
  • Health Tracking: Monitor the patient's progress with regular follow-up and modify the nutrition plans if required for the finest results.

Medical Doctor/Nutritional Advisor

Rosoleen Beauty Centre
Baghdad
09.2020 - 09.2021

Roles:

  • Nutrition Education: Educate and promote the importance of healthy eating behaviours, as they are essential for good health and disease prevention.
  • Tailor-Made Meal Planning: Create bespoke nutritional plans based on specific health profiles, lifestyle, and food preferences of each patient.
  • Weight Management: Help people in achieving sustainable and healthy methods for losing or maintaining weight.
  • Patient Counseling: The process involves one-on-one consultation to discuss their dietary concerns, motivating them to modify their current lifestyle, guide them toward healthier habits, etc.
  • Health Tracking: Monitor the patient's progress with regular follow-up and modify the nutrition plans if required for the finest results.

Medical Doctor

Government hospitals and Primary Health Care Centres
03.2017 - 10.2020

Roles:

  • Patient care: Diagnose, treat, and manage a broad spectrum of acute and chronic medical illnesses and customize care for every patient.
  • Preventive Health Promotion: Providing information to patients about wellness, disease prevention, lifestyle changes, and the benefits of continual screenings needed for achieving optimal health.
  • Medical Emergency Management: Provide immediate treatment and ensure proper resources for medical emergencies during disasters.
  • Identifying patient needs: Conduct thorough assessments to gain insight into patients' physical, emotional, and social health needs to treat root causes of illness.
  • Coordination of Care: Work together with specialists, allied health professionals and social services for integrated patient care.
  • Health Advocacy: Advocate for patients by advancing equitable access to health care resources and addressing social determinants of health.
  • Health Monitoring: This includes Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for diabetes, blood pressure management for hypertension, and peak-flow meter monitoring for asthma and tailoring treatment accordingly.
  • Vaccination and disease prevention: Schedule and administer vaccines, as well as educate individuals and communities regarding prevention of infectious disease.
  • Family and Community Medicine: Care for patients of all ages and address family and community health issues.
  • Health education: teaches patients and caregivers on treatment plans, medication adherence and healthy behaviors, so that they can make an informed choices regarding their health and wellbeing.
  • Documentation: Document accurate medical records of all diagnoses, treatments, and follow-ups done, allowing for continuity of care.
  • Health Program Implementation : Join or conduct programs such as vaccination campaigns, health literacy programs, and screenings.
  • Research and Data Analysis: Conduct research and analyze data to help identify trends, address needs, and improve practices in primary care and in the context of evidence-based medicine.
  • Support for Mental Health – Recognize the most common mental health problems (anxiety and depression) and how to assist your employees with the additional referral circuit.
  • Triage and resource allocation: Triage should be undertaken to prioritize cases on the basis of the severity of the disease, especially in settings where resources are limited to ensure that patients needing critical care receive it as early as possible.

Project Coordinator

Iraqi Social Forum
Baghdad, Baghdad
01.2017 - 01.2020

Roles:

  • Oversee project budgets, which encompasses monitoring expenditures and ensuring adherence to the Iraqi Social Forum
  • Manage refunds, invoices, and other financial transactions associated with the project
  • Provide financial reports and projections to Iraqi Social Forum leads
  • Coordinate project activities across the targeted regions within the project, ensuring the project’s goals are met in each region through active collaboration with locals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Management
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant governmental directorates and local authorities in the targeted areas.
  • Develop connections with critical stakeholders, such as sectoral councils, local CSOs, and other active agencies, in the regions that have been identified.
  • Provide assistance in the development of project reports, progress updates, and presentations that emphasize the activities and accomplishments.

Education

Master - Community Medicine

Baghdad College of Medicine
Baghdad, Iraq
11.2020 - 03.2023

Diploma - Clinical Nutrition: Total Nutrition Diploma

Ain Shams University
Egypt
06.2019 - 12.2019

Bachelor - Surgery And Medicine

Baghdad College of Medicine
Baghdad, Iraq
09.2010 - 07.2016

Skills

  • Strategic Planning: Defining long-term strategic goals and aligning initiatives to advance on the chosen course

  • Report Preparation: Ensure synthesis of the narrative section, data analysis, and data trends for health, and/or research settings

  • Research Methodology: Knowledge of modern research methods, biostatistics, and evidence-based practices are applied to work on academic, clinical, or other research projects

  • Teaching and Mentorship: Proven ability to teach and mentor students and clients, with an emphasis on their academic and professional development

  • Community awareness on health and nutrition topics: To design and deliver campaigns

  • Project Manager: Dealing with several projects and producing high-quality results on time while managing teams and resources efficiently

  • Interpersonal communication skills: The ability to engage with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders to build trust and collaborative working relationships

  • Social Media and Content Development: Capable of developing educational and engaging content to bring awareness and target audiences through the digital landscape

  • Detection of challenges in healthcare and research settings, and generation of possible solutions

  • Team Development: Successfully giving teams tools, training, and education to allow for more and better organizational output

Public Speaking and Health Advocacy: Experience as a speaker at high-profile events, including: Evaluation of the Performance of Health Houses in Iraq, presented at the 19th International Scientific Conference of Baghdad College of Medicine (14-15 May 2023) World Breast Cancer Awareness Month, hosted by Qudra/Makersiq (13 October 2023)

Participation and attendance

  • World Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Qudra/ Makers.iq, 10/13/23, Speaker
  • Evaluation of the Performance of Health Houses in Iraq, The 19th International Scientific Conference Baghdad College of Medicine/ Distinction- Originality-Pioneering, 05/14/23 - 05/15/23, Speaker

Qualifications/courses

  • Basic Concepts in Research Methodology, 2022, International Academy of Public Health
  • Advanced Clinical Nutrition Training Course, 2021, The American Association of Continuous Medical Education and provided by the Iraqi Medical Association
  • Feeding Cities: Improving Food Systems in Urban Areas, 2020, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), Wageningen, the Netherlands
  • Stanford Introduction to Food and Health, 2020, Stanford University Online
  • Weight Management: Beyond Balancing Calories, 2020, Emory University
  • Covid-19: Operational Planning Guidelines and COVID-19 Partners Platform to support country preparedness and response, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Clinical Nutrition: Total Nutrition Diploma, 2019, Ain Shams University in collaboration with Boston University
  • Introduction to Triage, 2018, Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Emergency Medicine Training Course ATLS-ACLS-BLS, 2017, Medical Operation and Special Services/Directorate of Medical City

Timeline

Lecturer / Assistant Teacher

Al-Mamoun University College
09.2024 - Current

An Employee at the CDC/Acute Intestinal Disease Section

Iraq Ministry of Health/Resafa Health Directorate
05.2023 - 07.2024

Founder and Owner

Alfeheem Office for Research and Biostatistical Consultations
12.2022 - Current

Medical Doctor/Nutritional Advisor

Kenzi Beauty Clinic
12.2021 - 09.2022

Master - Community Medicine

Baghdad College of Medicine
11.2020 - 03.2023

Medical Doctor/Nutritional Advisor

Rosoleen Beauty Centre
09.2020 - 09.2021

Diploma - Clinical Nutrition: Total Nutrition Diploma

Ain Shams University
06.2019 - 12.2019

Medical Doctor

Government hospitals and Primary Health Care Centres
03.2017 - 10.2020

Project Coordinator

Iraqi Social Forum
01.2017 - 01.2020

Bachelor - Surgery And Medicine

Baghdad College of Medicine
09.2010 - 07.2016
Mariam Al-AshbalMedical Doctor