Muaaz Makda

Providing patient centered care as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team at a pediatric hospital. Responsibilities include obtaining peripheral IV access, conducting blood draws, completing point of care testing, completing EKGs, and educating patients and family members on patient health and procedures.

Educating students from underserved communities on practices in medicine, medical procedures, and emergency medicine operations. Conducting workshops, individualized interviews, and direct mentorship to guide students in their healthcare career aspirations.

Providing patient centered care as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, assisting with patient hygiene and daily care practices, responding to emergent situations, managing patient health records in EPIC.

Responding to emergent situations as part of a multidisciplinary team, conducting blood draws, bedside diagnostic tests, and EKGs, splinting of extremities, inventory management, transporting patients, and serving as the technician in our critical care zone of the Emergency Department.

180+ hours spent shadowing physicians at various institutions including BUMC, BHVH, and MDMC. Specialties observed include emergency medicine, vascular surgery, trauma surgery, cardiovascular pathology, and transplant surgery.

Primary research conducted for the VASSC 2 project, a study which analyzes patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and subsequently had a vascular surgical procedure completed at BUMC/BHVH, which then resulted in thrombotic complications such as acute limb ischemia, venous thrombotic events, strokes, and acute mesenteric ischemia. Attended cardiovascular pathology conferences with Dr. William Roberts, a former editor for the American Journal of Cardiology.

Responding to emergent situations as part of a multidisciplinary team, splinting of extremities, obtaining patient vital signs and information, conducting bedside diagnostic tests and EKGs, inventory management, conducting patient transport.

Establish and maintain patient profiles, prepare patients for clinical services, conduct patient immunizations, carry-out processes for prescription inputting, filling, and dispensing, assist in majority of training for new team members, answer telephones, compound medications, maintain pharmaceutical inventory, take charge in new projects in the pharmacy.

Assisted customers with product selection based on task at hand, maintained up-to-date knowledge of store merchandise and competitors' merchandise to boost company sales, built relationships with customers to encourage repeat business, handled customer complaints in a professional manner.