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Riyadh AlRubaye

Buford,US

Summary

Clinical Nephrology affiliated in Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center , St. Mary Hospital and Landmark Hospital in Athens.

Clinical assistant Professor of medicine in Augusta University / Internal medicine

Organized and dependable physician .

Successful at managing multiple responsibilities at the same times. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Owner

Georgia Kidney Clinic LLC
07.2023 - Current
  • Managed day-to-day business operations.
  • Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
  • Accept new patients and guide them for better blood pressures control, treat chronic kidney disease and more.


Clinical Nephrologist

Northside Hospital Gwinnett
02.2023 - Current

I am currently working as a clinical nephrologist with Northside Gwinnet/ Duluth/ Forsyth

Clinical Nephrologist

Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
08.2021 - Current
  • Rounded on 20-30 inpatients per day in three or four different hospitals , half of them in Piedmont Athens Regional
  • Improved operations and work flow through writing dialysis orders for dialysis patients overnight and coordinate plan with dialysis nurse tonight before then confirm t dialysis list in morning.
  • Updated plan of care with primary teams including hospitalist services , surgeons and intensivists.
  • Interested in managing ICU patients on continuous renal replacement therapy ( CRRT ) and collaborated plan of care with intensivists , bedside ICU nurses and family members.
  • Proved successful multiple tasking through working three or four facilities to cover inpatient nephrology consults on daily basis .
  • Spent around 1-2 hours teaching internal medicine residents on daily basis
  • Offered friendly and efficient service to patients over phone and direct them towards plan of care according their complains
  • Worked flexible shift , be there when they need me in emergency situations or when provider needs urgent coverage

Clinical Nephrologist

St Mary's Health System
08.2021 - Current
  • Rounded on around 5-10 patients per day , evaluations and assessments to determine diagnosis of different kidney diseases including acute kidney injury , chronic kidney diseases , managed dialysis patients , hypertension and electrolyte abnormalities
  • Offered friendly and efficient service to patients over phone when am on call and direct them towards plan of care according their complains
  • Spent one hour teaching residents and guide them to write case reports to be presented in Georgia ACP meeting
  • Answered phone calls from providers St. Mary Sacred heart and directs appropriate fast transfer when patients need to be transferred to St. Mary Hospital in Athens
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications
  • Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects
  • Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently

Clinical Nephrologist

Landmark Hospital
08.2021 - Current
  • Managed different patients in Long Term Acute Care setting for patients that recently discharged from hospital , ventilator dependents patients that had electrolytes abnormalities including Sodium , calcium and potassium disorders.
  • Managed Chronic Hemodialysis patients
  • Helping primary teams to arrange transferring patient to nearby hospitals when need it.

Clinical Nephrologist

Georgia Renal Associates
07.2021 - Current

I work in Four hospitals including Piedmont Athens, Walton, St.Mary Hospital in Athens and Landmark Hospital in Athens.

Clinical Nephrologist

Piedmont Walton Hospital
07.2021 - Current
  • Rounded on 2-3 inpatients in the weekends.
  • Improved operations and work flow through writing dialysis orders for dialysis patients overnight and coordinate plan with dialysis nurse tonight before then confirm t dialysis list in morning.
  • Updated plan of care with primary teams including hospitalist services , surgeons and intensivists.


Internal Medicine Core Faculty Physician

Northeast Georgia Health System Inc.
07.2018 - 01.2023
  • Admitted and treated patients as part of daily shifts. Admitted various clinical cases related to internal medicine. This will be done first by medical students and t residents and supervise them at patients bedside. Discussed plan of care of patient after listen to history and physical examination from students and medical residents. Supported and supervised students in quality improvement research and case report from brainstorming areas for potential research through publishing papers on completed projects.
  • Worked with residents and students to review patient files and records, including medical problems, medications and past medical history and details of previous hospital course.
  • Talk about possible differential diagnosis in each patient and summarize them in diagrammatic approach.
  • Diagnosed and treated patients suffering from acute and chronic medical conditions such as congestive heart failure , acute pancreatitis , acute kidney injury..etc.
  • Followed best practices and scientific protocol to reach defensible conclusions based on solid evidence by using pub med and up-to-date and different apps .
  • Met with students and residents and discussed educational goals and expectations to initiate success strategies first day of rotation and in middle and at end of rotation.
  • Educated medical residents and medical students on study tips and exam strategies. This include how to study MKSAP and implement board review questions.
  • Made lessons interesting and engaging using diagrammatic slides methods which is similar to YouTube presentation and ask residents questions in multiple choice format so can engage during board review or lectures sessions.
  • Used positive reinforcement technique and asked them to stand up and use marker and white board to see how much information retain .

Hospitalist

Wellstar Group PRN Shifts
02.2018 - 05.2020

I signed to work PRN shifts with Wellstar Group

Hospitalist

Weatherby Healthcare
08.2015 - 10.2018

Doing Locum PRN shifts

Nephrology Fellow

Emory University Hospital
07.2016 - 07.2018
  • Two years nephrology fellowship in Emory health university. I diagnosed and treated patients suffering from acute and chronic kidney diseases. This include wide range of pathology started from electrolytes abnormalities , acute kidney injury , chronic kidney disease , glomerluar diseases and treated end stage renal disease.
  • Did more than 25 central line procedure for vascular access line and femoral cath procedure so we can start hemodialysis on patient that they need emergent hemodialysis . I also did around 10 ultrasound guided kidney biopsy procedures and several procedures to remove perm cath procedures.
  • Helped medical students and medical residents in various aspects when i was nephrology fellow. This can include helping them to get specific history of each nephrology case and do appropriate physical exam in nephrology. I also taught them how to analyses acid base questions and reach right answer.
  • Conducted several lectures for Emory residents and medical students during nephrology fellowship training.

Chief Resident in Internal Medicine

Atlanta Medical Center
07.2015 - 07.2016
  • I worked with the medical residents and the medical students to organize the daily morning report and the noon conferences.
  • Created special handouts, study guides and assessments to evaluate and boost student knowledge. This included created internal medicine curriculum include all the internal medicine chapters started from Cardiology and ended with neurology.
  • Responded to after hours email and telephone requests to provide students assistance with specific questions.
  • Integrated technology into sessions to further enhance student learning. This was implemented through my youtube videos.
  • I did several months of academic internal medicine faculty and worked directly in patient care and the medical residents.
  • I did the monthly and annual medical residents schedule and the rotations.

Medical Resident

Atlanta Medical Center
07.2012 - 06.2015
  • I worked as internal medicine resident for 3 years in Atlanta medical center.

Physician

Zimmerman Medical Clinic
01.2010 - 06.2012
  • Instructed patients and families on medical diagnoses and treatment options.
  • Assessed, diagnosed and treated emergency and chronic medical conditions.
  • Collaborated with consulting physicians regarding care of patients.
  • Thoroughly examined patients and elicited medical history data to use in assessing health and identifying conditions.

Clinical Instructor

Self
09.2009 - 01.2011

Physician

Jordan Hospital
07.2005 - 09.2009

Physician

Iraqi Health System
07.2002 - 06.2005

Education

American Board of Nephrology - Nephrology Fellowship

Emory University Hospitals
Atlanta, GA
06.2018

Chief Resident in Internal Medicine - undefined

Atlanta Medical Center
7.2016

American Board of Internal Medicine -

Atlanta Medical Center
Atlanta Medical Center
06.2015

M.B.Ch.B - Medicine and Surgery

Baghdad University
Iraq
06.2002

Skills

  • Clinical and Academic Nephrologist
  • Internal medicine residents education
  • Curriculum Development
  • Medical Residents and medical students counseling
  • Online learning tools
  • Lecturing
  • Academic research
  • Classroom presentations

Accomplishments

  • Rounded on Nephrology Inpatient services for around 6 days per month on two main hospitals including Piedmont Athens Regional and St.Mary Hospital and one acute long term facility in Landmark Hospital.
  • Collaborated with team of 4 physicians in the development of board review curriculum and teaching yearly nephrology board review for the internal medicine residents in Northeast Georgia Medical Center and in Atlanta Medical Center
  • Supervised team of multiple residents every year by helping them to write different case reports and case series .
  • Supervising and writing a case series of hydralazine induced vasculitis and Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19 infections .
  • Works with Sepsis Alert team and presented the hospital in the sepsis Alliance Summit on 2021 with the the sepsis nurse manager Carol Ann Gelderman

Affiliations


  • Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
  • Piedmont Walton Hospital
  • St.Mary Hospital in Athens
  • Landmark Hospital in Athens
  • Northside Hospital Gwinette/ Duluth and Forsyth

Certification

I did two months Ultrasound rotation in Emory University and i got a certificate of success of diagnosis and do kidney biopsy for the patients.

Additional Information

Projects and Research:


  • 2022 QI project for early diagnosis of the proteinuria in the hospital setting
  • 2021 QI project for early detection of sepsis in the inpatient hospital setting
  • 2021 QI project for asymptomatic bacteriuria in Hospitalized patients Northeast Georgia Medical Center Project Leader 2020-current.
  • 2019 QI project for the role of the physician -Nurse round to improve patient experience project in Northeast Georgia Health system
  • 2019 QI project for preoperative evaluations in internal Medicine Northeast Georgia Medical Center Member 2020-current QI project in patient experience Northeast Georgia Medical Center Member 2020-current
  • Patient family advisory council Northeast Georgia Medical Center Physician Executive 2016-2018 QI project for Intrauterine device associated peritonitis Emory University Project Leader 2012-2016
  • Antibiotic Stewardship Committee Atlanta Medical Center Member 2012-2016
  • Graduate Medical Education Committee Atlanta Medical Center Residents representative.

Professional and Society Membership

2016-Current American Society of Nephrology

Active member

2016-current American College of Physician

Active member


Professional Honors and Awards

2022 Excellence in Performance during internal medicine clinical Competency Committee, NorthEast Georgia Health System

2021 3rd position poster award in GA ACP presented by my resident

2020 1st position poster award in Hospital medicine conference presented by my supervised resident

2020 Excellence in Performance during internal medicine clinical Competency Committee, NorthEast Georgia Health System

2020 Excellence for demonstrating the core value of respectful compassion

2018 Nephrology Consults appreciation , Emory University

2016 Chief Resident recognition award , Atlanta Medical Center

2014 3rd place in ACP Oral Presentation Award Clinical Vignette Oral Presentation at Georgia American College of Physicians meeting

2013 Best Clinical Vignette Poster Presentation at Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting

2013 Outstanding Intern of the Year in Atlanta Medical Center Internal Medicine

Publications and presentations:

1-Alrubaye R, Choudhury H. Severe Rhabdomyolysis in a 35-Year-old Woman with COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report. Am J Case Rep. 2020 Aug 17;21:e926733. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.926733. PMID: 32801291; PMCID: PMC7440748.

2- Alrubaye RR, Fadel CA, Adewunmi CY, Del Rio Lopez L. Pleural Effusion Secondary to Dasatinib Following Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Am J Case Rep. 2021 Aug 7;22:e932711. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.932711. PMID: 34362863; PMCID: PMC8363658.

3- Alrubaye, Riyadh, et al. "A possible Guillain-Barré syndrome/transverse myelitis overlap syndrome after recent COVID-19." BMJ case reports (2022).

2- Al-Rubaye, Riyadh, Ian Kaiser, Loren Cobb, and Jason Cobb. "INTRAUTERINE DEVICE-ASSOCIATED PERITONITIS." In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES, VOL. 71, no. 4, pp. 518-518. 1600 JOHN F KENNEDY BOULEVARD, STE 1800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-2899 USA: WB SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC, 2018.

3- Woldemichael, J., Hang, M., Al-Rubaye, R., Kaiser, I., Oliver, K. and Cobb, J., 2019, May. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT: PREVENTING PROCEDURE-ASSOCIATED PERITONITIS IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES (Vol. 73, No. 5, pp. 747-747). 1600 JOHN F KENNEDY BOULEVARD, STE 1800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-2899 USA: WB SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC.

4-Amira Elmagbari, Riyadh Rabeea Al-Rubaye, Zina A. Abbas, and Tanna Lim “ominous electrocardiography in a patient with chest pain “Ochsner J. 2014 Spring; 14(1): e1–e24.

5- Ochsner J. 2014 Spring; 14(1): e1–e24.The Imported Malaria: A Rare and Fatal Cause of Parasitic Encephalopathy

Ali Fadhil, Riyadh Alrubaye, Zina Abbas, Ngozi Orjioke, Anuradha Thopu, Douglas Collins, Ashenafi Tassew, and Hayder Alrubaye

2004 Recipient: Letter of Appreciation for treating trauma patients during the Iraq War

6. Ahoussougbemey Mele A, Chew C, Ruiz Vega R, et al, Riyadh Alrubaye (February 13, 2023) Naproxen-Induced Evans Syndrome. Cureus 15(2): e34910. doi:10.7759/cureus.34910


Timeline

Owner

Georgia Kidney Clinic LLC
07.2023 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

Northside Hospital Gwinnett
02.2023 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
08.2021 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

St Mary's Health System
08.2021 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

Landmark Hospital
08.2021 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

Georgia Renal Associates
07.2021 - Current

Clinical Nephrologist

Piedmont Walton Hospital
07.2021 - Current

Internal Medicine Core Faculty Physician

Northeast Georgia Health System Inc.
07.2018 - 01.2023

Hospitalist

Wellstar Group PRN Shifts
02.2018 - 05.2020

Nephrology Fellow

Emory University Hospital
07.2016 - 07.2018

Hospitalist

Weatherby Healthcare
08.2015 - 10.2018

Chief Resident in Internal Medicine

Atlanta Medical Center
07.2015 - 07.2016

Medical Resident

Atlanta Medical Center
07.2012 - 06.2015

Physician

Zimmerman Medical Clinic
01.2010 - 06.2012

Clinical Instructor

Self
09.2009 - 01.2011

Physician

Jordan Hospital
07.2005 - 09.2009

Physician

Iraqi Health System
07.2002 - 06.2005

American Board of Nephrology - Nephrology Fellowship

Emory University Hospitals

Chief Resident in Internal Medicine - undefined

Atlanta Medical Center

American Board of Internal Medicine -

Atlanta Medical Center

M.B.Ch.B - Medicine and Surgery

Baghdad University
Riyadh AlRubaye