I worked a Consultant Neurologist at Sunderland Royal Hospital (SRH) and the Regional Neurosciences Centre (RNC) Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. This is a full time substantive appointment with the NHS at SRH and the RNC
http://www.sunderland.nhs.uk/chs/services/neurology/default.asp
I was in charge for the contribution of the Department of Neurology in teaching –CIDR – of medical students of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from Jan 2006 to December 2008. This involved giving lectures, case based teaching, clinical rounds, out patients and resource days in neurology including skill laboratory training. I was the Educational supervisor for junior doctors in the department of neurology and a trained career advisor for junior doctors.
I substantially developed the services for patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Sunderland area.
I started the Multiple Sclerosis charity in Sunderland Royal Hospital and raised significant funds for it. Funds were used to appoint a new MS specialist nurse and educator as well as equipments for the MS clinic including a bladder scanner.
Locum consultant neurologist at Sunderland Royal hospital.- same job as above.
3- From 01/08/2002 to 30/09/2005 inclusive:
Specialist Registrar (SpR) in clinical neurology (Type 1 training post) in the Northern Deanery rotation, United Kingdom.
3-a: 01/10/ 2004 to 30/09/2005 the Regional Neurosciences Centre- Newcastle
General Hospital. Worked for:
Drs T Walls, D Burn, A Goonetilleke, Prof T Griffith, Prof P Chinnery, and
Dr Margaret Jackson
3-b: 01/10/ 2003 to 30/09/2004 the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Worked for:
Drs P Tilley, P Newman, G Young, P McKee, T Wolf, D Bathgate and M Osei-Bonsu
3-c: 01/08/ 2002 to 30/09/2003: The Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Worked for:
Prof N Cartlidge, Prof D Bates, Prof D Turnbull, Drs M Jackson, P Dorman,
T Williams, P Nichols and M Duddy
The work involved day to day management of a wide range of neurological disorders including emergencies. I do 3 -4 out patients clinics a week including general neurology and speciality clinics. The latter included movement disorders, TIA’s, epilepsy, paediatric neurology, and neuromuscular diseases. I did clinics at the Neurosciences centres at Newcastle upon Tyne and Middlesbrough as well as at district general hospitals including Durham, Carlisle, Whitehaven, Ashington, Bishop Auckland and Hartlepool. I did three months of clinical neurophysiology. I did a clinical audit addressing The Management of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (BIH) in Middlesbrough. That was a joint audit between the departments of neurology and neurosurgery.
I did one in five second on call rota since I joined this training programme. I participated in the regular departmental activities including grand rounds, SpR training days, radiology meetings and journal clubs. I contributed to the teaching activities for under- and postgraduate students.
I successfully obtained my CCST (Neurology) from the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK on 31st August 2005- certificate incurred on November 2005. Soon after appointed as a consultant neurologist as shown above.
4- From 10/04/2000 to 31/07/2002:
Clinical Research Associate in Neurology at the Department of Neuroimmunology, Guy’s, King’s and
St Thomas’ School of Medicine at King’s College, University of London.
The department was headed by Prof Richard Hughes. I worked under the direct supervision of Dr M K Sharief, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in neurology.
I undertook clinical and laboratory based research in Neuroimmunology to obtain an MD from the University of London. Unfortunately I couldn’t afford to pay for the prohibitively high fees and was proud of the experience and the amount of scientific training I received from world class scientists.
I conducted several studies addressing the role of B Lymphocytes in Multiple sclerosis. I gained hands-on experience with ELISA, Western Blotting, Dot-Blotting, Flow Cytometry and cells separation techniques. I presented the results of some of these studies at Departmental, Local, National and International meetings as well as in 6 peer reviewed publications.
– Locally: NIRG (Neuro-inflammation Research Group- Headed by Prof Kenneth Smith) and
Neurosciences Centre Research Meetings at GKT Medical School- London.
–Nationally: Posters at the ABN meeting at Durham University12-14 Sep 2001.
Platform and poster presentations at the Spring ABN meeting in Oxford April 2002.
–Internationally: Platform and Poster presentations at the 17th World Congress of Neurology-
London 17-22 June 2001.
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Platform presentation at the 19th Sudanese Physicians’ Society Meeting, 23rd-26th Feb 2004- Khartoum, Sudan.
The job also involved supervising the management of patients enrolled in clinical trials in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Epilepsy.
I did a research clinic once/ week at Guy’s hospital and a General Neurology Clinic once/week at
St Thomas’ hospital. I attended the teaching activities for the specialist registrars (SpR) at the Neurosciences Centre at King’ College- Denmark Hill, once/week.
I also participated in the Neurology SpR on-call rota at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals from
Feb 2001 – July 2002 (1 in 10).
Specialist Registrar/ Lecturer in Neurology, Locum Appointmentfor Training (LAT) at theDepartment of Clinical Neurology, Royal Hallamshire hospital in Sheffield (RHH).
I worked for Drs GAB Davies-Jones, Graham Venables, R A Grunewald, B Sharrack, A Gibson, S Howell and Marious Hadjivassilliou.
The work involved day-to-day care of inpatients with all range of neurological disorders and supervision of SHO’s and HO’s. I did two clinics a week one of which was in a District General Hospital and a 1 in 4 on-call duties. That involved first hand care of patients with a wide range of neurological emergencies. The duty involved supervision of the first on-call and responding to calls for neurological opinion from GP’s, surrounding hospitals as well as other departments in the RHH under the supervision of consultants.
I prepared the elective admissions list for the subunits that I worked in. I supervised the care of patients in the Programmed Investigation Unit. That included performing LP’s, Tensilon test, Apomorphine test, and Percutaneous Muscle Biopsy. I participated in the radiology meetings, case presentations, and journal clubs.
I undertook a study on the use of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Assessment of
Intracranial Pressure in patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension under the supervision of
Dr R A Grunewald, Consultant neurologist at the Hallamshire hospital in Sheffield.
The study showed that conventional Lumbar puncture and other invasive techniques remain the reliable means of measuring intracranial pressure.
Senior SHO in Neurology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
Worked for Drs. S J Howell, A Gibson, R A Grunewald, GAD Davies-Jones, B Sharrack
I participated in the second on-call rota as for my SpR job shown above.
Consultantin General Internal Medicine – Armed Forces Hospital Wadi Dawasir, Saudi Arabia.
I Did 4 clinics, 2 endoscopy lists and one echocardiography list / week. Ss well as supervise the ICU/CCU unit and the A & E Department. I also worked as an Internal Auditor and latter received training as a certified auditor- see above. As a senior staff member I actively participated in achieving ISO9001 accreditation for the hospital.
5 years Residency Programmein Arab Board for Internal Medicine (ABIM) at Assir Central Hospital.
A 600 bedded Teaching hospital affiliated to King Saud ( now King Khalid University) Abha, Saudi Arabia.
I completed a fiveyears training inThe Arab Board Residency Programme in Internal Medicine at Assir Central Hospital (ACH), Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in the period from April 1990 to Oct 1995.
Medical Officer in Accident & Emergency Department, Al-Salam Hospital, Saddah, Republic of Yemen.
A well equipped referral Hospitals.
Medical Officer, Department of Internal Medicine, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Sudanese Ministry of Health (MOH)
House Officer (Internship Period) (12 months in teaching hospitals):
26 Feb 1985 – 25 May 19985 Obs. & Gynae, Soba University Hospital, and Khartoum, Sudan.
Prof. H M Rushwan and Prof. H O Karoum
26 May 1985 – 25 Aug 1985 Paediatrics, Soba University Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan.
Prof M I Omer
26 Aug 1985 – 25 Nov 1985 General Surgery, Soba University Hospital, Khartoum , Sudan,
. Mr S Zien Alabdeen
26 Nov 1985 – 25 Feb 1986 Internal Medicine, Khartoum, Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
Prof B M Arbab