AZZA KHALIFA 822 - 2060 Quingate Place St. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3L 4P7 Home: (902) 428-4163 Cell: (902) 717-1751 azzakhalifa@hotmail.com Skype ID: azzakhalifa SUMMARY OF QUALIFCATIONS • 10+ years of experience providing quality services in the field of Clinical and Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention and Control • Experience attending to clients, listening to their concerns and providing prompt services • Experience in following procedures and protocol for proper service delivery • Skilled in supervising, interpreting, reporting all microbiological results especially urgent results and in identifying and addressing problems and concerns through preventive actions • Competent administrator skilled in writing, reviewing and updating Control Manual procedures, and Policy and Quality control documentations • Provided teaching sessions for colleagues, staff and students, and participated in the continuous medical education program as part of professional development • Strong communication skills in providing information and suggestions to colleagues and other health care professionals. And formal interactions with Clinical Microbiology Laboratories in the region for external quality control, discussing cases and concerns. • Competent computer user of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, medical data base RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Medical Customer Service Delivery • Followed up with the processing, reporting and informing of blood culture, CSF and other urgent results • Provided consultation, interpretation, reporting of results, selecting appropriate antibiotics following proper antibiotics policies • Worked on and interpreted results for HIV, HBV, HCV and other viruses • Participated in and supervised the collection and examination of specimens for leishmania and malaria and interpretation of results Administration, Education & Training • Provided educating about medical issues to clients, colleagues and the public at large. • Followed up with the processing, reporting and informing of blood culture, CSF and other urgent results • Developed and implemented Infection Control Program • Provided consultation, interpretation, reporting of results, selecting appropriate antibiotics following proper antibiotic policies • Prepared manual procedures and verified all quality control procedures • Mycology: examining all direct smears and reporting culture • Supervised 12 technologists and technicians and provided leadership role in all procedures • Administrative management and supervision of personnel including maintaining annual performance evaluation based on competent test and other criteria. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Medical Microbiologist 2006 – 2013 Maternity Children Hosptial, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia Medical Microbiologist 2001 – 2005 Hommiyat Hospital (Fever Hospital), Alexandria, Egypt Medical Microbiologist 1998 – 2001 Regional Lab Ministry Of Health, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Medical Microbiologist 1995 – 1998 Hommiyat Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt Medical Microbiologist 1993 – 1995 Al-Noor Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia EDUCATIONAL & TRAINING Bachelor Degree of Medicine College of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt Infection Control Certification 2003 • Attended and completed infection control program of MOH of Egypt for five months under supervision and support of World Health Organization and US Naval Medical Research Unit no.3. Policy Developing Practicum 2003 - 2005 • Implemented, supervised, evaluated, monitored and updated infection control policy under supervision of MOH, WHO and NAMERU 3 for a fewer hospital References available upon request

Highlights:

• HIV
• Infection control
• Medical
• Microbiology
• MDR
• Management
• Performance Evaluations
• Quality
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control