Uche Arinze
Public Health Physician
Utako,Nigeria
Summary
STATEMENT OF MOTIVATION
Professional Summary
Senior Technical Officer and Outreach Clinician Positive Care Consultancy.
Prevention care and treatment of HIV/ AIDS Family Health International 360
Surveillance and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) focal person for COVID 19 Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
Consultant Call Centre Clinician Public Health Emergency Operation Centre Ministry of Health.
Project officer Monitoring and Evaluation Corona Management system
Member International Aids Society
Member the PACT
Scope of experience
Use of program data for results via real time dashboard monitoring of site Case Management Teams data, Research, Integrated Health care services, Health Systems Strengthening, Monitoring and Evaluation, PMTCT, clinical management of paediatric and adults with Co-Infection of TB/HIV, Quality Improvement, and integrated medical services, viral load coverage, and quality of TB/HIV service delivery. To achieve UNAIDS 95, worked with the facility focal persons in EpiC sites to scale up targeted testing, ICT, genealogy and HTS. There was 100% linkage of positive identified cases with over 25 % yield from genealogy testing. Used the 95-95-95 strategy to identify positive clients, initiated them on anti-retroviral medications and retained them in care and over 100% achievement across all HIV program indicators. Offered supportive supervision and technical assistance to healthcare workers and relevant stakeholders.
Provided hands on mentorship in the area of cervical cancer screening of positive clients and PrEP services.
Have special interest in Health System Strengthening, HIV Care treatment support, paediatrics and PMTCT Core Competencies Capacity building, project planning and strategy, interventional programming with excellent communication, report writing, documentation, leadership, organisational and stakeholder management skills.
Effective team player with skills in the use of project data to drive results and oriented program planning. Can multi task effectively with little or no supervision, and pay attention to details.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Technical Officer and Outreach Clinician
Positive Care Consultancy
Yenegoa, Bayelsa
08.2021 - 12.2021
- General outpatient care and clinic services. Geriatric and paediatric outreach coordination across Niger Delta regions with offshore activities inclusive.
- Delivery on Company targets for research publications and documentation, including internal analysis of team performance on specified programs and projects;
- Delivery on Company targets for Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis support; ▪ Delivery on Company targets for grant applications for key solutions;
- Operations Management: implementing processes, systems and service specifications for service excellence, across solutions and customers;
- Financial Planning, Monitoring and Control: Supporting development and implementation of organizational and project budgets, reviewing and monitoring expenditure when required, and ensuring fluency of financial operations;
- Project Management: Lead project design, planning and implementation, project monitoring and evaluation within Health division;
- Economic Analysis: Lead cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of various activities and initiatives within division;
- Reporting: Preparing reports on unit’s activities and progress towards strategic objectives, as is required;
- Quality Management: Developing standard operating procedures for deployment of solutions, and incidences and severe adverse events are appropriately reported and managed.
- Saved about 500,000 naira by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems
- Managed team of 5 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees
Prevention Care and Treatment Consultant
Family Health International 360
Yenegoa, Bayelsa
05.2021 - 07.2022
- Advocacy: visit Focal persons in Anti retroviral Therapy (ART) program across facilities and acquaint them on unmet program targets and need for scale up. For cervical cancer services organise training as well as space for carrying out screening
- Onsite capacity building via orientations and hands-on mentoring, reiterating recent updates to program implementation including one-off tuberculosis prevention therapy, ART regimen optimisation especially for paediatric sub-population, Pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, HIV self-testing and cervical cancer screening services.
- Continuous viral load deep dive analyses Generation of line lists of eligible clients, sample referral, and EMR triangulation for samples collected.
- Delivery of Gender Based services, intimate partner violence; sexual, physical and emotional.
- Daily strategy review meetings to review performance and Identify gaps and institute corrective measures for better outcomes.
- RADET file analysis and routine mid-day check in on CEAs and DECs for expected outcomes. Use of line lists to align client needs to service delivery to avoid missed opportunities
- Deployment of tools for cervical cancer screening and documentation and other source document tools
- Managing co infected clients ensuring are properly linked to DOTS clinics and maintain adherence to treatment.
- Ensured proper TB screening for all clients on every encounter at the facility
- Back stopped five large volume ART PEPFAR supported facilities in the state to ensure optimisation of ART regimens for paediatric sub population, PMTCT and children.
- Follow up as well as client centred differentiated models of care.
- Facilitation of Operation Triple Zeros Clubs and enrolment of clients into OTZ clubs.
- Genealogy testing, OVC visits and cluster activities for paediatric case finding.
Infection Prevention and Control Focal Person
NCDC
Yenegoa, Bayelsa
11.2020 - 02.2022
- IPC – COVID 19 sensitisation lecture series.
- Surveillance: Testing of over 300 camp support staff and over 1000 prospective Corps members.
- Risk Communication: Sensitisation of neighbouring camp community members on IPC protocols set up at the camp and need to adhere to ensure are to have access to the camp.
- Setting up IPC vanguards among members of the camp staff and Corps members.
- Conducting continuous surveillance activities through out the camp period detecting suspected cases and carrying out IPC protocols and testing.
- Ensuring adherence to all IPC protocols among all campers.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
- Maintained adherence to social distancing protocols and wore mask or face shield.
Call Centre Clinician Public Health EOC
Bayelsa State Ministry of Health
Yenegoa, Bayelsa
07.2020 - 11.2020
- Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports and documents to ensure smooth operations.
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
- Case identification from call received, referrals and calls to disclose results to patients.
- Received an average of 30 calls per day usually related to case identification, all cases that met NCDC case definition of COVID 19 were immediately handed over to the surveillance team which ensured that samples were collected and sent to the lab.
- Received several call ins for voluntary COVID 19 testing and these were also referred appropriately.
- Test result disclosure through phone calls and video conferencing was done within hours of result release.
- Gave feedback to all persons with samples still pending after 24hours.
- Children friendly IEC materials were prepared in collaboration with the state education board in preparation of schools reopening.
- Closely collaborated with outpatient department clinic for COVID 19 to strengthen follow up..
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
Project Officer Monitoring and Evaluation
Corona Management Systems
Yenegoa, Bayelsa
03.2020 - 06.2022
- Manages filing, storage and tracking of hardcopy and electronic content and support templates and ensures availability of current information on related subjects.
- Proactively works to improve record keeping in a complex portfolio of projects with a high volume of programmatic and technical information.
- Database Management, Collection and Analysis: Supports staff with developing and formatting project reports and presentations. Assists staff in review and analysis of data, helping to prepare internal and external project reports.
- Activities and Events Coordination and Scheduling Coordinates all planning, bookings and logistics for activities and events, including the agenda, calendar, materials, registration with the participants and travel, both domestic and international, including lodging, transportation and meeting accommodations.
- Project Management and Participation:
- Participates in cross-functional project teams.
- Provides advice and support to meet key internal and external deadlines and support country teams in their success at the project level.
- Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.
- Led projects and analysed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
House Physician
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital
Nnewi, Anambra
02.2019 - 02.2020
- Teamed with other physicians, specialists and health care providers to provide well-rounded care for complex cases.
- Wrote medical prescriptions, detailing side effects and possible adverse reactions to keep patients informed and alert of potential issues.
- Engaged with other professionals to impart knowledge and discuss best treatment courses.
- Provided medical care and treatment in the infectious disease unit for adult and pediatric cases. Treating HIV + clients, co-infected clients and clients with life-threatening opportunistic infections.
- Stayed abreast of advances in treatments, emerging pharmaceutical applications and new diagnostic tools for application in infectious disease medicine.
- Dedicated 12 hours per week as on-call physician at local hospital to supplement staff.
- Managed and treated clinically over 5,000 patients in a year in the hospital.
- Effectively communicated with over 2,000 on healthy lifestyle choices to improve their health outcome
- Compiled several concept notes and proposals for departments of surgery and internal medicine
- Participated in over 10 local community outreaches.
- Engaged in clinical consultations, investigations and treatment of cases, sample collection and laboratory result retrieval and interpretation in the DOTS clinic.
- Conferred with specialists to obtain expertise on patient conditions and referred individuals in need of additional care.
Education
MB;BS - Medicine And Surgery
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Awka Anambra 09.2012 - 08.2018
WASSCE - High School
Command Day Secondary School
Oshodi, Lagos. 09.2005 - 06.2011
Skills
Prevention, Care and Treatment of HIV, PMTCT and Paediatric HIV
Work Availability
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Timeline
Senior Technical Officer and Outreach Clinician
Positive Care Consultancy
08.2021 - 12.2021
Prevention Care and Treatment Consultant
Family Health International 360
05.2021 - 07.2022
Infection Prevention and Control Focal Person
NCDC
11.2020 - 02.2022
Call Centre Clinician Public Health EOC
Bayelsa State Ministry of Health
07.2020 - 11.2020
Project Officer Monitoring and Evaluation
Corona Management Systems
03.2020 - 06.2022
House Physician
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital
02.2019 - 02.2020
MB;BS - Medicine And Surgery
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
09.2012 - 08.2018
WASSCE - High School
Command Day Secondary School
09.2005 - 06.2011
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