Senior Clinical Dietitian at Sheikh Shakhout Medical City (2022-05 – Present)
Newly opened 800 bed hospital including 4 intensive care units, medical, surgical, pediatric and burns ICU and Outpatient clinics.
- Certified preceptor for post graduate dietitian training and undergraduate dietitian training in this Region
- Responsible for covering critical care areas namely Burn (Adult and pediatric) ICU, Surgical ICU and Pediatric and Neonatal ICU
- Responsible for SEHHI internal audits within the hospital campus to ensure healthy options available at all retail outlets within the campus
- Provides nutritional support for all adult and pediatric patients in the Burn intensive care unit, Neonatal ICU unit and Pediatric ICU unit
- Outpatient nutrition counselor in adult and pediatric clinics
- Responsible for reviewing and updating all educational material used in the department of Clinical Nutrition
- Participates in JCIA and Ministry of Health (Northern Emirates) accreditation activities of the hospital
- Develops and presents nutrition support lectures to other healthcare professionals and medical students in the organization
- Utilizes varied techniques to educate patients regarding nutrition goals
Senior Clinical Dietitian at Sidra Medicine (2017-06 – 2022-05)
Greenfield hospital- newly opened 300 bed hospital for Women and Children. Involved in activation of inpatient and outpatient dietitian services in Womens; General Pediatrics and Oncology Services.
- Responsible for supervising newly qualified registered dietitians practicing in pediatric areas
- Provided nutritional support for all high risk enteral and parenteral – fed patients in NICU, pediatric ICU and on pediatric wards
- Responsible for developing pediatric menus and age-appropriate snacks for Oncology inpatients
- Developed and implemented nutritional policies and nutritional standards of care for Hematology and Oncology Services and Bone Marrow Transplant services run by the hospital for pediatric patients
- Outpatient nutrition counselor in general pediatric clinics, multi-disciplinary clinics with pediatric gastroenterologists (including intestinal failure clinics); pediatric feeding clinic, cardiology clinics; oncology and hematology clinics and cleft palate clinic
- Participated in JCIA and Ministry of Health (Qatar) accreditation activities of the hospital
- Instructs and trains dietetic students and residents
- Develops and presents lectures to other healthcare professionals and students
- Utilizes varied techniques to educate patients regarding nutrition goals
- Participates in accreditation activities of the hospital- JCIA
Registered Clinical Dietitian at Sheikh Khalifa Speciality Hospital (2016-06 – 2017-05)
Operated by Seoul National University Hospital. Newly opened 300 bed hospital including 3 intensive care units, medical, surgical, trauma and pediatric and adult outpatient care service.
- Responsible for supervising registered dietitians covering critical care areas and developing a wound care nutrition protocol for adult ICU patients and long term care patients
- Responsible for supervising the Foodservice dietitian in areas of therapeutic nutrition, menu planning and monitoring tray line and hygiene checks in the foodservice unit
- Provides nutritional support for all adult and pediatric patients in the intensive care unit and those on therapeutic diets and enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Outpatient nutrition counselor in adult and pediatric clinics
- Responsible for reviewing and updating all educational material used in the department of Clinical Nutrition
- Participated in JCIA and Ministry of Health (Northern Emirates) accreditation activities of the hospital
- Instructs and trains dietetic students and residents
- Develops and presents lectures to other healthcare professionals and students
- Utilizes varied techniques to educate patients regarding nutrition goals
- Participates in accreditation activities of the hospital- JCIA
Senior Clinical Dietitian / Acting Supervisor over Medical and Pediatric Areas at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (2004-08 – 2016-05)
Managed by Cleveland Clinic. 800 bed hospital including medical, surgical, trauma, pediatric, homecare and outpatient services.
- Responsible for supervising registered dietitians practicing in pediatric areas
- Acting manager when manager on vacation or external assignments
- Provides nutritional support for all enteral and parenteral – fed patients in medical and pediatric wards and patients at the Abu Dhabi Rehabilitation Center and homecare pediatric patients
- Writes, prepares and reviews new educational material for the department
- Provides nutritional support to patients in pediatric wards and pediatric ICUs
- Outpatient nutrition counselor in general pediatric clinics, multi disciplinary clinics with pediatric gastroenterologists, bi-weekly multi disciplinary pediatric feeding clinic, and cleft palate clinic run monthly
- Developed and implemented nutritional policies and nutritional standards of care for homecare services run by the hospital for adult and pediatric patients
- Homecare dietitian responsible for 100 tube fed homecare patients
- Supervision of new homecare dietitian responsible for the nutritional care of 300 patients under the homecare program
- Leader of the dietetic practice group for breastfeeding and pediatric nutrition
- Liaison between the Department of Clinical Dietetics and the Department of Education and Health Promotion responsible for reviewing and updating all educational material developed by the department
- Responsible for the development of the clinical dietetics orientation guide and orientation checklist for all new employees joining the department
- Responsible for department orientation of new employees
- Responsible for updating the current pediatric diabetic pathway
- Instructs and trains dietetic students and residents
- Develops and presents lectures to other healthcare professionals and students
- Utilizes varied techniques to educate patients regarding nutrition goals
- Participates in accreditation activities of the hospital- JCIA and HAAD accreditation
- Department representative for the JCIA patient education chapter
Senior Clinical Dietitian at King Fahd National Guard Hospital (2001-06 – 2004-06)
- Responsible for the nutritional care of all infants in the 40 bed neonatal intensive care unit, 10 bed pediatric intensive care unit, neonatal intensive care step down unit and 10 bed pediatric cardiac intensive care unit
- Report to Chief Clinical Dietitian
- Responsible for the pre operative and post operative care of con-joined twins
- Assisted in the development of NICU feeding protocols and PEG feeding protocol
- Responsible for developing, updating and reviewing patient educational material
- Responsible for breakfast tray line monitoring
- Participated in the Saudi Dietetic Internship Program and the Saudi Career Development Program by providing training activities, assignments to participants
Clinical Dietitian / Senior Clinical Dietitian at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital (1996-01 – 2001-05)
800 bed teaching hospital. Responsible for starting the Clinical Dietetics department at the hospital.
- Responsible for the management of the Clinical Dietetics Department
- Report to the Chief Medical Superintendent
- Responsible for the nutritional care and follow up of all medical and pediatric patients in the hospital
- Responsible for the ordering, receiving and distributing of all nutritional products used in the hospital
- Outpatient nutrition educator in weekly run pediatric clinics
- Planning regular in-service education for hospital staff on nutritional supplements and enteral feeds used at the hospital
- Attending weekly ward rounds in medical and pediatric wards
- Dealing with problems that may arise in the hospital foodservice unit
- Assist in menu planning of patient diets
- Manage the daily running of the diet kitchen, milk kitchen and tube feed preparation area
- Supervise the preparation of tube feed, infant feeds and diet supplements
- Supervise the training of the Postgraduate dietetic students registered with the University of Natal
- Part time lecturer at the University of Natal
