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Houston, Texas, United States

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Community & Population Health, College of Health working on a research study: “Informing Ethical Translation of Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials”:▪ Recruiting transplant candidates, obtaining informed consent, and conducting telephone interviews▪ Developing a survey on Redcap▪ Data entry & maintaining careful records ▪ Using NVivo for data analysis ▪ Conducting a literature review

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Graduate Intern at the Center for Healthcare Quality & Analytics (CHQA) *Fall Internship:Worked on: "Improving Pediatric Patient Flow from the ED to Inpatient Admission": delays from when patients are medically ready to depart the emergency department (ED) for their admission to an inpatient unit is a common problem faced by hospitals. I worked on understanding patient flow from a holistic system approach and mapping out process steps to find potential waste and variation.o Observed several units/departments in the hospital.to understand processeso Facilitated expert interviews with 10+ people/teams at CHOPo Created 5 process maps of current workflow on Microsoft Visioo Analyzed data to identify bottlenecks and to spot variation between 17+ unitso Identified and characterizing the workflow’s sources of delays/challengeso Provided recommendations/opportunities for improvement*Summer Internship:Assisted in 7 projects: analyzed data for ED Trauma visits, helped develop a guide for focusing on population health especially equity in quality improvement projects, studied the use of smart clothing with the human factors engineering team, shadowed in the emergency department (ED) and analyzed data for an ED EXIT project (Express Inpatient Transitions), created a tracking dashboard of visiting caregivers, helped reproduce an online dashboard for patient reported outcomes, and created a survey to improve the daily enterprise briefing meeting from an operational standpoint▪ Exposed to 13+ topics on quality improvement (QI) & healthcare and met 10+ teams/departments at CHOP▪ Worked on a sample QI project: “Improving efficiency & patient satisfaction for extremity fracture care in the emergency department” by going over improvement steps: Define, Diagnose, Test & Implement, Sustain & Spread▪ Presented about patient safety & systems thinking

Adma Et Dafna, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon

Regional Talent Acquisition Coordinator for SABIS® Schools in Brazil, Panama, Kurdistan, USA, Pakistan, China, Kenya, Egypt, and Azerbaijan▪ Scheduled and conducted interviews for different vacancies within the region (60+/month)▪ Screened resumes (750+ /month) received from different sources, shortlisted potential candidates and sent them to the respective recruiters▪ Sourced candidates according to the recruitment needs▪ Posted vacancies on SABIS® Careers and on different international recruitment websites and universities▪ Conducted market research to identify new potential recruitment sources and maintained a database of various recruitment sources▪ Scheduled online and live technical tests, assisted candidates during the test, and corrected the test when possible: I assisted in 300+ tests with candidates of 8 different nationalities ▪ Developed and maintained weekly and monthly recruitment reports to keep all relevant parties informed on the recruitment advancement (it includes how many interviews were done for each vacancy, time to fill of the vacancies, sources of the new hires, recruiter’s success rate…)▪ Screened by phone different candidates▪ Followed up with candidates on files they needed to send, on their application, on the test schedule and on their attendance to the tests

Beirut District, Lebanon

▪ Personal Loan Department / Car Loan Dept. / Investigation Dept.: o Conducted a full screening/research of personal, student, car, and housing loans applicants while gathering any required extra informationo Organized the student loans applications (data filling and studying, file sorting and distribution)▪ Control Unit: o Made sure that the right employees (of different firms) will receive their corresponding salarieso Followed up on several kinds of payments to be done by clients and on different files to be received from the branches▪ Planning Department: o Studied an audit report for transfer processes, thought of recommendations, and tested the report to see if trueo Prepared a simplified “Terms & Conditions” contract of the travel insurance benefit from different types of cards and observed different preparations and testings of new changes done

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Healthcare Systems Engineering, 3.9/4

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management

Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Spent the Fall 2018 semester at ABS

High School - Life Science