Name:
Dr A ThangaPrabhu
E-mail:
dratprabhu@yahoo.com
Location: Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK
Birthday: 12 January, 1967
Bio: Dr. A ThangaPrabhu
Phone: 0044 7747664242
Email: dratprabhu@yahoo.com
Web: edrprabhu.com
Mail: D3.1, Beck House,
Sketty Road,Uplands,
Swansea SA2 0LL, Wales UK
QUALIFICATIONS:
2004; MSc-Health Informatics, University of Wales Swansea, UK (Course ends Sept. 2004)
Key Modules include:
Web page design, The development of health informatics, Information processing in health care, Communication technologies, Research in informatics, Coding, classification, standards & modeling, Telematics in health care and health informatics in practice
2001; TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), USA - 270/300
2002; TSE (Test of Spoken English), USA - 50/60
2001; Certificate course in C++ programming
2002; Certificate course in Visual Basic and Access programming
December 1989; MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery), First Class, University of Madras, India
March 1985; First rank holder - Class 12th, Indian High School, Dubai, UAE
(Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, India)
March 1983; All India Rank 68 - Class 10th,
King George V Royal Indian Military College, Bangalore, India
(Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, India)
LANGUAGES KNOWN:
Read, Write, Speak: English, Hindi, Tamil (fluent in all three)
WORK HISTORY:
1998 to 2003 - Emergency Physician, Al Ain Hospital (MOH), UAE
Working as the first line ER physician and attending to all emergencies including RTA (road traffic accident), work accidents, domestic accidents, medicolegal cases, poisoning, Medical, Surgical, Paediatric, Orthopaedic, Obstetric & Gynaecological, ENT and Ophthalmological emergencies
1994 to 1998 - Physician (Internal Medicine), AI Ain Hospital (MOH), UAE
Worked as first on call Physician in Internal Medicine and managed cases of all specialties (Neurology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Cardiac, Diabetology, Haematology, etc.)
? Worked in the wards as a resident in a Neurology unit
? Worked in the Medical clinic seeing all medical cases - first time cases, referred cases and follow up cases
? Taken active part in all the academic activities viz., Medical Grand Rounds (presented two cases), Radiology meetings and Clinico-Pathological conferences (CPC)
? Taught Clinical Medicine (while on call - bedside teaching) to medical students from
Faculty of Medicine, UAE University and paid by the hour for the same
1989 to 1994 - Senior House Officer, Intensive Care Unit (Medical, Surgical, Coronary), Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (Deemed University) Hospital, Madras, India
? Managed poisoning cases (Organophosphorus, Oleander seed), Snake bites (Elapidae and Viperidae), post operative critically ill patients, Acute Myocardial Infarction, etc.
? Presented three papers on the cases seen in ICU, in the Scientific Society meeting of the same college
1989-1994 - Family Physician, Madras, India
Independent practice in the evening for charity at my residence
AWARDS RECEIVED:
ACADEMIC:
Indian High School, Dubai - IHS scholarship for standing first in class 12th (CBSE, Delhi) 1985
Bhatia memorial Scholarship, Dubai for standing first in class 12th (CBSE, Delhi) 1985
CBSE - Merit cum means scholarship for achieving all India rank 68 in class 10th (CBSE) 1983
NON ACADEMIC:
Gold Medallist in English creative writing competition, English Literary Association,
Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Madras 1985
Elected three times to the post of Class Representative (CR) in Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (Deemed University), Madras for three consecutive terms 1987, 1988 and 1989
(Organised farewell party for the departments, coordinated between students/teachers in academics, dispute resolution between management/students in various issues, Head-organizing team for ?Interuniversity cultural program? hosted by our university)
INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES:
Webpage authoring in HTML and publishing/maintaining webpages (I maintain eight websites since 1998 and they are reachable from my home page)
Developed a patient registration system in ?MS Access? to be used in the A&E department of Al Ain Hospital, UAE and helped in its implementation
Created and maintained the A&E department website while working at the same place
Helped setup an intranet, linking three A&E department computers at the same place
Reading latest journals (BMJ, JAMIA, NEJM, JAMA, American Family Physician, Annals of Emergency Medicine, etc.)
REFEREES:
1. Dr.Mike Tait, PhD,
Course Director - MSc Health Informatics, School of Health Sciences,
University of Wales Swansea
(m.i.tait@swan.ac.uk, +44 (0)1792-703771)
2. Tony Paget,
Lecturer, School of Health Sciences,
University of Wales Swansea
(a.m.paget@swan.ac.uk, +44 (0)1792-703762)
Interests: Having extensive experience in practicing medicine for the last decade I am in a good position to use the domain knowledge that I have gained to help in evolving an effective CRS. The training I have had while pursuing a MSc (health informatics) in the University of Wales Swansea makes me confident in taking on a challenging role such as CRS application anlyst. I have been doinig medical IT work for the last five years unofficially for my department in UAE. I have designed and maintained the department website which made communication amongst the A&E staff very easy. I also designed and implemented a patient registration system on MS Access and we created a LAN connecting three PCs. The patients benefited a lot from easy accessibilty to their data and my work was recognised by the A&E Department Head in writing. We were in the process of implementing a mini PACS system using digital capture technology to cut down the time patients in the A&E wasted at the X-ray bay. I am at home using computers and regularly use MS word, excel, access, frontpage, outlook, photoeditor. I develop my webpages writing raw HTML code. I have some understanding of Visual Basic and C++ languages. This job is an opportunity for me to be involved in the intricacies of EPR and as a first step to develop a care records service. The NHS is venturing on a remarkable and bold venture to capture patient data countrywide electronically and I want to be a part of this amazing team.
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