Fahad Abdullah Ali Al Dhufairi
Hail,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Dedicated healthcare professional with a proactive approach to work, specialising in patient-focused care and individual counselling. Demonstrates exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, complemented by strong leadership and administrative abilities. Adept at assessing the efficiency of treatment plans and working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, ensuring adherence to medical by-laws. Committed to delivering compassionate care with a detail-oriented mindset, leveraging computer skills for effective problem-solving and decision-making.
Overview
21
21
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Consultant
- Lead the Infection Prevention and Control department as a consultant, overseeing the diagnosis and treatment of complex infectious conditions, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care, guiding research initiatives, and ensuring the highest standards of care for infectious diseases at our esteemed hospital.
- Assess & supervise hospital organization's infection prevention and control program activities to determine issues, priorities and potential opportunities for intervention and improvement.
- Including surveillance activities. Employee health, education, regulatory compliance, job descriptions, evaluation tools and report forms, process observations, and stakeholder discussions.
- Identify high-risk areas and develop a set of prevention strategies.
- Evaluate high-risk care processes such as high-level disinfection, sterilization, and dialysis or laundry management.
- Review all departmental policies related to infection control.
- Evaluate, revise or create required documents, such as risk assessment, exposure control plans and waterborne pathogen management plans.
- Assist with outbreaks or other infection control related occurrences.
- Collaboratively work with your team members to create competency evaluations associated with infection prevention practices.
- Assist with the development of infection prevention plans and program activities.
- Blood-borne pathogen and tuberculosis exposure control plans.
- Isolation and transmission control.
- Disease or service line specific concerns.
- Sustain through education, training and process monitoring.
- Provide education to infection prevention team and clinical staff.
- Performance improvement and change management support.
- Cover duty service with Infection Diseases rounds and consultation.
- Covering outpatient clinic.
- Covering inpatient consultation according to the distributed on-call Rota.
- Supervising fellow and residents and providing both education and feedback.
- Cover duty service with antimicrobial stewardship program.
- Plans and evaluates outcomes of Antimicrobial Stewardship studies related to prescribing patterns and antibiotic resistance.
- Conducts and monitors daily functions related to Antimicrobial Stewardship related to maintaining the honor rolls, staying up to date on new guidelines and studies, and helping infection preventions.
- Reviews documents for accuracy and compliance with guidelines & regulations.
- Attend subcommittee and implement strategies to address stewardship in facilities.
- Conducts onsite assessments of select facilities for stewardship practice and works with subcommittee to offer education on antibiotic stewardship.
- Collaborate with Other department such Pharmacy, Microbiology, Hospital epidemiology and Information technology to ensure success of the program.
- Minimum Seven (7) years of experience post-qualification in Hospital Infection Control/ Infectious Diseases/ASP.
- Knowledge of national and international regulations related to Infection Control.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvement.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience in developing and implanting policies and procedures related to Infection Control.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - MBBS
Dammam University
Dammam, Eastern Province 08.1998 - 10.2004
Saudi board - Internal Medicine
National Guard Hospital
Al Hufuf, Eastern Province 10.2005 - 12.2013
Ph.D. - Adult Infectious Diseases
King Faisal Specialist And Research Hospital
Riyadh, Riyadh Region 01.2014 - 12.2015
Fellowship Certificate - Adult Infectious Diseases
King Faisal Specialist & Research Hospital
Riyadh, Riyadh Region 01.2016 - 03.2016
Fellowship - Infection Prevention & Control
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada 03.2016 - 06.2017
Fellowship - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada 03.2016 - 06.2017
M.D. - Transplant infectious diseases
Western University
London, Canada 07.2017 - 06.2019
Skills
- Able to assess efficiency of treatment plans
- Able to provide individual counselling
- Computer skills
- Leadership skills
- Administrative skills
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent decision-making skills
Affiliations
- Member of CDC-Saudi Arabia infection & Prevention control
- Member of Saudi Society of microbiology and infectious diseases
- Member of infectious diseases society of America
- Member of American society of Transplant
Poster and publications
- Resistance patterns of Enterobacteriaceae in urine are similar in symptomatic and Asymptomatic patients.
- Immunosuppression reduction after diagnosis of sustained BK viremia and the risk of allograft rejection, allograft loss, and mortality.
- Epidemiology and treatment outcome of brucella in Hail, Saudi Arabia: A case series
- Skin tuberculosis rare manifestation: case report
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections reduction among ICU patients: Multidisciplinary approach
References
Positive professional references attesting to the candidate’s skills and ethical conduct.
Timeline
M.D. - Transplant infectious diseases
Western University
07.2017 - 06.2019
Fellowship - Infection Prevention & Control
McMaster University
03.2016 - 06.2017
Fellowship - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
McMaster University
03.2016 - 06.2017
Fellowship Certificate - Adult Infectious Diseases
King Faisal Specialist & Research Hospital
01.2016 - 03.2016
Ph.D. - Adult Infectious Diseases
King Faisal Specialist And Research Hospital
01.2014 - 12.2015
Saudi board - Internal Medicine
National Guard Hospital
10.2005 - 12.2013
Bachelor’s degree - MBBS
Dammam University
08.1998 - 10.2004
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