Date of Birth: 14/11/1972 / Nationality: Sudanese
Current address: P.O. Box 1776, Khartoum, Sudan
Current contact information Tel: 00966569141837; Email
Education
2006-2009
/ MBA (Master of Business Administration) University of Leicester, Leicester, UK The work included five modules: Foundation module (Strategic marketing, Accounting for managers and Management, people and organizations), Finance and growth strategies, Strategic analysis and choice, Implementing strategies, Strategies in Action, and two electives: Total quality management, Benchmarking. Dissertation topic: Factors associated with occupation stress in the higher education institutes in Sudan: Effect on organizational performance19982002 / Ph.D. Community Nutrition Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK (previously Queen Margaret University College) Thesis title: Dietary fat intake and CHDrisk factors in the Sudan: A casecontrol study The work involved designing questionnaires, measurements of fasting blood glucose and cholesterol levels using the Accutrend as well as the measurement of fasting blood cholesterol (total, HDL and LDL) and triacylglycerol; Blood analysis using enzymatic methods; Platelet fatty acid composition using capillary gas chromatography; Anthropometric measurements (weight, height, waist and hip); Dietary assessment methods including recipe collection, weighed intake records, 24hr recall records and food frequency questionnaires and validation of methods. The work also involved data analysis using EXCEL, SPSS and Dankost 2000
19971998 / Postgraduate Diploma Community Nutrition Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK (previously Queen Margaret College) There were nine modules including Research methods (both quantitative and qualitative methods), Data collection and analysis using SPSS and EXCEL; Community nutrition; Changing health behaviour, empowerment; Health promotion; Quality and audit in healthcare system (including benchmarking, quality assurance and auditing); Famine, nutrition and health
19911996 / B.Sc. Honour Degree Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 2:1University of Khartoum, Faculty of Education, Khartoum, Sudan. The fifth year dissertation project was Dietary management of congestive heart failure in Khartoum State hospitals. There were many courses including Curriculum and methods of teaching; Psychology and developmental psychology; Physiology; Biochemistry; Community nutrition; Advanced nutrition; Diet therapy; Food preparation; Microbiology; Physics; Chemistry; Organic chemistry, Genetics; Food technology; Nutrition policy and planning; Community health and development
19881990 / GCE O’Level Certificate Khartoum Tutorial College, Khartoum, Sudan. The subjects included Mathematics; English and Classical Arabic languages; Physics; Islamic studies; Biology
19771988 / Primary and Intermediate Education Sister’s School, Khartoum, Sudan. Subjects were taught in the English language except the Arabic language and Islamic religion
Work experiences
2009 / Participated in teaching Batch 9 Nursing undergraduate students at the National Ribat University a course about General Nutrition2009 / Participated in teaching Introduction to Computer Science module, with special focus on statistical analysis, using SPSS for Postgraduate Diploma students (Batch Three) in Healthcare Management at the National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialization
2009 / Selected as an abstract reviewer by the International Society for Nutrition Education to review abstracts which could be presented at the 42nd SNE conference (total of 10 abstracts)
2009 / Designed BSc (Hon) programmes one in Human nutrition and theother in Dietetics at the National Ribat University. The programme has been approved by the university committee and Board of Trustees and the Ministry of Higher Education in Sudan
2008-2009 / Participated in teaching diet therapy course to nursing students (batch five) at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences, the University of Khartoum, Sudan
2008 / Assigned the Head of Parent Advisory Sub-Committee for Curriculum at the Nile Valley Academy
2008 / Selected as an abstract reviewer by the International Society for Nutrition Education to review abstracts which could be presented at the 41st SNE conference in Atlanta (total of 10 abstracts)
2008 / Participated in teaching in a three-month short course (for nurses): Treatment of intensive care patients. I taught four hours about Enteral and Parenteral nutrition
2008 / Participated in teaching a three-day short course (for athletes): Sports from a medicinal perspective. I taught two hours about the nutritional requirements of athletes
2008 / Teaching a diet therapy course for undergraduate nursing students (batch four) at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences, the University of Khartoum, Sudan
2008 / Selected by the American Dietetic Association to act as a reviewer for the expired position paper “The roles of registered dieticians and dietetic technicians, registered in health promotion and disease prevention”
2008 / Participated in teaching MSc. students (Human Nutrition and Medical Nutrition Therapy) at the National Ribat University medical nutrition therapy course
2008 / Participated in teaching human resource management module for Postgraduate Diploma students (Batch Two) in Healthcare Management at the National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialization
2007 / Participated in teaching human resource management module for Postgraduate Diploma students (Batch One) in Healthcare Management at the National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialization
Work experiences(Cont’)
2005-2008 / Designed an MSc Human Nutrition and Medical Nutrition Therapy curriculum, which is accepted and approved by the Committee of Postgraduate Studies at the National Ribat University and the Senate. This included the writing of the curriculum, the method of teaching of each module and all the resources needed to run the programme. I have been appointed the Director of the Programme and have received a prize from the Dean Faculty of Medicine for putting the programme into action very well. Taught nutrition assessment and surveillance course, nutrition anthropology course, research methodology and biostatistics course, nutrition and medical nutrition therapy management course for MSc students2004-2008 / Participated in teaching nutrition course (8 hours) batch 5,6, and 8 medicine and dentistry students at the National Ribat University
2006 / Designed two nutritious meals for children aged 9-14 yrs at the Schools for talented and gifted children
2005 / Assigned the Head of Dietetics’ Department Improvement Committee at the Ribat University Hospital by the President of the National Ribat University
2005 / Reviewed two research proposals submitted to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research for funding
2005 / Teaching Public Health Nutrition for MSc. Public and Tropical Health students at the Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology
2004 / Acting Dean at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences for 2 months at the National Ribat University
2004 / Provided training to women (as a facilitator) in the community about topics including healthy diet and how to design menus for patients with commonly found diseases in the Sudan such as anaemia, hypertension, diabetes and under-nutrition
2004 / Presented a talk to men and women in the village of El-Hugna about food safety and healthy diet
2004 / Participated in the teaching of a Research Methodology course (30 hours) at the International Centre of Belief Research, Khartoum, Sudan. Teaching included topics such as choosing a researchable problem, writing objectives, study design and data collection tools and as well as writing proposals and dissertations
2004 / Designed A Dissertation Handbook for use by university undergraduate and graduate students at the National Ribat University
2003-2007 / Head of the department of basic medical sciences (including nutrition) and the head of the research studies unit at the Faculty of Nursing Sciences at National Ribat University, Sudan. The work involves teaching nutrition including both general nutrition, nutrition during life cycle, and diet therapy and lipid biochemistry to medical and paramedical students; Teaching research methodology and statistics courses, which included topics such as choosing a researchable problem, data collection tools, variables, sampling, validity and reproducibility as well as proposal and dissertation writing; Writing different types of examinations including OSPE, short essays, long essays, subjective questions including true and false form, choose the best match, match column A with B; Providing training to medical students with regard to nutrition assessment; Conducting visits with students to different places such as Amipharma Pharmaceuticals
Work experiences(Cont’)
2003 / Lecturer in the Sudan National Centre for foreign Languages (SELTI). The work involved teaching English language as a foreign language to students following the Headway series (Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels)2000-2001 / Dean of students’ affairs and lecturer of nutrition at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sudan (previously the Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology); Work involved the management of staff in hostels houses; Teaching two different courses including General Nutrition and Diet Therapy following the credit hour system
1998-2000 / Training in the Sudan Heart Centre. The responsibilities included giving advise about the healthy diet and weight control for obese men and women; dietary management for hypertensive, diabetic, heart disease patients and hyperlipidaemic patients
Winter 1995 / Teaching nutrition in a Sudanese secondary school for girls. The responsibilities included teaching nutrition seven classes giving home and class works, exams and full responsibility for two classes acting as the “mother of the class”
Summer 1995 / Dietician in Ahmed El Amin Hamid Hospital for children in Omdurman and Khartoum North Teaching Hospital. The work involved attending doctors’ rounds; writing dietary prescriptions for children and adult patients including diabetics, hypertensive, gastrointestinal diseases; checking the daily patients’ menus and full responsibilities for the patients’ diets as well as presenting seminars about different cases in the hospitals and the effect of the dietary management given
Summer 1994 / Sudanese Red Crescent, Training in the Relief and emergency department including visits to emergency camps and providing food and nutrition education to refugees
Summer 1992
Winter 1993 / Translation from the English to the Arabic language and vice versa
Membership:
National and International memberships / Registered Public Health Nutritionist with the British Nutrition Society (UK, 1997); The head of the Nutrition Board at the Sudanese Community Health Promotion Organization (Sudan, SCHPO, 2003); Member of the International Society of the Studies of Fatty acids and Lipids (ISSFAL, UK, 2004); Member of the American Dietetic Association (ADA, USA, 2005), Member in the following American Dietetic Practice Groups: Public Health/Community Nutrition and the Medical Nutrition Practice Groups (2005), Member of the International Society for Nutrition Education (SNE, USA, 2006)Other relevant issues
Consultancy / Nutrition Consultant for the Schools of talented and gifted children in Sudan. Member of the Curriculum Advisory Committee at the Nile Valley AcademyDietary assessment / Well experienced in dietary data collection methodology including the different dietary assessment tools such as weighed intake records, 24hr recall records, food frequency questionnaires, diet history and recipe collection
Anthropometric measurements / Familiar with the different body and anthropometric measurements including body weight, height, waist and hip circumferences; calculation of Quetelet’s index and waist to hip ratio, demispan, knee height measurements, etc
Laboratory work / Very good experience with the enzymatic measurement of cholesterol (total, HDL and LDL) and triacylglycerol including taking blood from people, centrifugation, precipitation and plate reader. Familiar with the use of the Accutrend & the measurements of glucose and cholesterol levels
Computer work / Well experienced in typing using Microsoft word 95/98/2000/2003/2007; data analysis (descriptive, Student t-test, skewed data, logistic and linear regression and correlation), drawing charts using both SPSS version 10/12/19 and EXCEL. Good knowledge of dietary analysis using the WHO/EMRO programme known as Dankost 2000 and different food composition tables and the Internet as well as PowerPoint usage and presentations
Languages / Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic languages
Travel / Willing to travel anywhere if the job needed so
Work / Trustworthy, patient, polite, highly organized and do not mind to work under pressure and for long hours. Enjoy team-work, creative and usually updating information about nutrition, biochemistry and human resource management. Used to be the top of the class during the five years studying at the University of Khartoum and received the prize of “The best academic student” three times
Visited places / Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Kingdom, Paris, Ukraine, United States of America, South Africa
Marital status / Married and have one son
Sports / Tennis (Member of the Sudanese Tennis Club)
Supervisor for:
- Supervised a Master student (Research title: Dietary fibre intake amongst healthy Sudanese population), a Postgraduate diploma student (Title: Evaluation of the nutrition status of children in the Khalawee at El Elafoun area); a Postgraduate Diploma student (Title: Assessment of the psychosocial impact of adolescents affected bywar in Khartoum State); a Postgraduate Diploma student (Title: Fatty acid intake during pregnancy and birth outcome); Assessment of the role of healthcare assistant in different villages in Sudan; a Postgraduate Diploma students (Title: Assessment of communication channels and their association with job satisfaction at Khartoum North Medical Centre)
- Undergraduatedissertation projects (Evaluation of the nursing role during haemodialysis in Khartoum State),(Prevalence of hypertension in Imtidat Eldaraja Elthalitha, Khartoum, Sudan), (Evaluation of the nursing care provided to patients suffering from deep venous thrombosis), (Assessment of the nursing care given to patientsundertaking continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) and (Assessing efficiency of the health education programme provided to diabetic patients at the Ribat University Hospital)
- Currently supervising 6 MSc students at the National Ribat University and One PhD student
Internal examiner for 14 undergraduate theses at the National Ribat University
External Examiner:
- MSc in Community Nursing (2006): Effect of early marriage on development, Soba Alarady, Khartoum, 2007 by Fawzia Abdel Moneim AlHussain, Supervisor Dr. AbdelMageed Osman (Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology)
- MSc in Community Nursing (2006): The prevalence and risk factors of snuffing among Sudanese high secondary school students (Alhalfaya and Elamarat secondary schools), Sep-Nov 2006 by Nagla Kamal Saad, Supervisor Dr. AdilAbulMaali ElSiddig (Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology)
- MSc in Community Nursing (2006): Compliance of patients under haemodialysis to dietitians’ instructions in haemodialysis centres in Khartoum North area 2006 by Eshraga Adam Elgadi, Supervisor Dr. AlSadig Yousif Mohammed (Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management (2008): Knowledge of doctors and nurses at Ombada Teaching Hospital about their job characteristics in 2007: by Mohamed ElHassan, Awad Musa, Hatim Husni, Samra Ahmed, Zuhal Balah, Supervisor Dr. Samir Mohamed Ahmed Hamam (National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialisations)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management (2009): Assessment of organisational structure for emergency department at Khartoum Teaching Hospital by Kamal Mohamed, Mustafa Ahmed, Hala Ali, Yousif Fadilmola, AbdelRahman ElShaik and Tarik Ahmed, Supervisor Dr. Abdel Rahim M. Babikier (National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialisaitons)
Attendance of conferences and presentations
2009 / Presentation of a talk about: Intake and benefits of fruit and vegetables during Ramadan in a television programme (Sudan TV channel) called Our Home, Khartoum, Sudan2008 / Had a paper accepted for an oral presentation at the SNE 41st Conference in Atlanta, USA
2008 / Had a paper accepted for a poster presentation at ADA conference in Japan
2008 / Presented a poster presentation at South Africa conference in Pretoria. Poster title; Assessment of the nutritional status of HIV/AIDS patients at Omdurman Teaching Hospital
2008 / Presentation of a talk about: The best ways for preserving and cooking chicken in a television programme (Sudan TV channel) called the Happy House, Khartoum, Sudan
2008 / Presentation of a talk about: Healthy nutritional needs and risk of disease in a television programme (Khartoum TV channel) called My Family, Khartoum, Sudan
2007 / Presented an oral presentation at the SNE 40th Conference in Chicago. The study titled Knowledge and Practice of the Nutrition Service Staff at the Ribat University Hospital: Need for appropriate nutrition education programme
2006 / Attendance of a presentation about enteral and parenteral feeding practices presented by Dr. Emad Helmy of Fresenius Kabi in the Ribat University Hospital
2005 / Interviewed at the UNESCO chair for women in Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan to give a brief history about myself, CV and how I started my work, work experience and the future of nutritionists in Sudan
2004 / Attendance of a workshop about: The dietary assessment of elderly nutritional status in Khartoum State, at the Sudanese Society of Elderly Care, Khartoum, Sudan
2004 / Presentation of a paper: Healthy diet and food preparation practices, at the Natural Science Institute, Khartoum, Sudan
2004 / Presentation of a paper: Platelet, fatty acid composition, dietary pattern and plasma HDL-C amongst healthy Sudanese volunteers at the Scottish Lipid Discussion Group Meeting, Dundee, United Kingdom
2004 / Presentation of a poster: Platelet fatty acid composition and coronary heart disease risk in Sudan: A case-control study at the ISSFAL 2004 Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom
2003 / Presentation of a talk about: The nutritional requirements of the elderly in a television programme, Khartoum, Sudan
2001 / Presentation of a paper: Dietary management of ulcerative colitis at the National Sudanese Board for Medical Specialization, Khartoum, Sudan
Some of the projects, seminars and researches carried out
The effect of the different mass media on adolescents in Sudan (1994)The health effects of fermented foods in Sudan (1994)
Dietary patterns of adolescents in private Sudanese schools using 24hr recall method (1996)
Effect of deep fat frying in fast food shops in Edinburgh (1998)
Dietary management of Kwashiorkor (1995)
The paradigm shift in the diagnosis and causes of kwashiorkor (1997)
The use of qualitative and quantitative research methods in data collection with special reference to validation, generalization and systematic bias (1998)
Development of a nutritional education programme for use in the Sudan (1998)
Dietary pattern of children aged between 6 and 9 in public Sudanese schools using 24hr recall record method (1996)
Dietary habits of different ethnic groups in Sudan (1995)
Dietary management of nephritic syndrome (1996)
Dietary management of ulcerative colitis (2002)
Nutritional status of military students at the National Ribat University (2003)
Patient satisfaction about the food service system in the National Ribat University (2006)
Knowledge and Practice of the Nutrition Service Staff at the Ribat University Hospital: Need for appropriate nutrition education programme (2006)
Projects accepted for funds by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Sudan:
Fatty acid intake during pregnancy and birth outcome (2008)
Vitamin D status amongst patients with tuberculosis (2008)
Continuing Professional Education:
Awarded continuing professional education credits accredited by the American Dietetic Association, USA. As such had 12 CPE Accredited Certificatesequivalent to 24 Credit Hours(2006)
Awarded a certificate for completing a course on Optimising Nutritional Care in the Community (10 points) as evidence of CPD, PREP and PDP from Queen Margaret University College, UK (2006)
Awarded a certificate for completing a course on An introduction to Nutritional Screening-Using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) as evidence of CPD, PREP and PDP from Queen Margaret University College, UK (2006)
Awarded a certificate for completing a course on Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Risks, Remedies and Recommendations (2 hours) from University of Massachusetts, USA (2007)
Awarded 26 continuous professional education units at the Nutrition Congress held at the University of Pretoria, South Africa between the 28th of September and the 2nd of October 2008
Awarded Certificate of Completion for successfully completing a course titled Preventing childhood obesity: An ecological approach which is worth 15 hours of continuous professional education units from the Cornell University, USA (2008)
Awarded Certificate of Participation for successfully completing an online course titled: Childhood Food Insecurity: Health Impacts, Screening and Interventionwhich is worth ONE hour of continuous professional education unitsfrom Oregon University, USA (2008)
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