My Health Sciences Resume

SUMMARY

• Ø Excellent interpersonal skills due to more than fifteen years’ experience working in a medical setting with patients,  physicians, and staff
• Ø Comfortable with medical vocabulary
• Ø Skilled at online databases  including PubMed, Medline, CINAHL,  Web of Science, Ovid, Embase Evidence Based Medicine and more
• Ø Technology skills including Microsoft Office Suite, Galaxy Android Tablet and its applications Electronic Medical Records, Aleph and Dynix ILS, Web 2.0, Social Networking sites
• Ø Supervisory experience
• Ø Two years academic library reference experience including conducting the “reference interview”
• Ø Individual/group teaching and training, familiarity with Moodle, WebCt./Blackboard, SmartBoard

DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES

PALMER SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, L.I.U., Brookville, NY. Masters Library and Information Science and Advanced Certificate in Archives & Records Management

 QUEENS  COLLEGE, Flushing, NY. Bachelor of Arts, Sociology Major; 14 credits in Education

NATIONAL LIBRARY of MEDICINE PubMed Training Certificate

MOLLOY COLLEGE, Rockville Centre, NY.  Health Care Certificate for Medical Billing/Coding

NYS DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION Public Librarian’s Professional Certificate

LIBRARY EXPERIENCE

Reference Desk Library Assistant, Schwartz Memorial Library at C.W. Post College;

Brookville, NY 2008-2010

• Ø Assisted student population and faculty with reference and computer questions
• Ø Taught students how to search online catalogue and databases and familiar with Chat Reference
• Ø Educated students  in information literacy
• Ø Considered PubMed expert at Reference Desk
• Ø Collaborated in deaccession/weeding projects (reports, analysis, and shifting)
• Ø Shelf read and shelved books and serials, keyed in bar codes on recently acquired books
• Ø Joined forces with colleagues on team projects

Internship at Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library                                          2010

• Ø Checked for missing journals and updated these records in online and local holdings catalogue
• Ø Identified discrepancies between actual serial holdings and their Aleph, Connexion,and Docline holdings
• Ø Learned ILL procedures using Illiad, Odyssey and Ariel
• Ø Assisted in the processing of data and materials from the Library’s manuscript collection from prominent alum by preparing “box lists” to create a digital archives.

MEDICAL OFFICE EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Medical Front Desk / Ophthalmic Technician, for Dr. Joseph Younger and others       2003-2009

• Ø Experienced with the following electronic systems:
  • Centricity patient scheduling and registration
  • SRS  health information records system and Praxis medical record chart keeping
  • FaxAbility
• Ø Patient administration, histories and education
• Ø Administered Visual Field, HRT, and Auto-Refractive tests, Visual Acuities, Ishihara Color Blind tests, and dilation drops
• Ø Responsible for ordering contact lenses, keeping up to date with innovations in the field
• Ø Administration: Scheduling, recruitment, training, performance reviews and more for small staff across two locations.
• Ø Improved patient relations multifold by training and staffing changes
• Ø Worked on financial projects including utilization of  spreadsheets

Medical Front Office Supervisor, for Dr. George Tung                                                                 2002

• o Administration: Scheduling, recruitment, training, performance reviews and more for small staff across two locations.
• o Improved patient relations multifold by staffing changes and training.
• o Worked on financial projects including utilization of  spreadsheets
• o Liaised with administrative assistant, technician-supervisor, and billing department
• o Updated Practice Policy and Procedure Manual
• o Attended seminars on management and employee law
• o Participated in brainstorming sessions for practice improvement

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• ØGuest Lecturer at LIS 607 Health Sciences Sources & Services on “Using Ebsco to Search Medline”  including highlights of information literacy at LIU 3/2011
• ØGuest Lecturer at LIS 514 Research Methods of Library Science on “Database Searching Techniques Using LISA and LIBLIT” and highlights of information literacy at LIU 2/2011
• ØTaught fellow students using PowerPoint presentations in Web 2.0 technology, database searching, sampling techniques and more in multiple classes
• ØIntroduced Medline searching, Web 2.0 Technology in the Health Sciences and more, through Power Point Presentations to classes

ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE

• ØDownloaded and use HS apps on my Galaxy Tablet including PubMed
• ØAttended Health Literacy Webinar 4/11 given by NNLM
• Created a blog, “Musings of a Librarian” providing resources for librarians and active in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• ØAttended ACRL Conference 3/11 and participated in workshops on teaching Information Literacy effectively in one shot and multiple lessons and more
• ØAttended Webinar “Libraries & the Mobile Technology Landscape,” 9/24/10ØAttended MLA 2010 conference  and NLM PubMed Training full day class earning 7.5 CE, 6/17/10
• ØAttended Webinar ” Innovative Ways Medical Libraries Can Support Nursing,” 6/30/10
• ØFamiliar with Moodle, WebCt., Blackboard, and Smartboard
• ØTrained new and existing  staff in optics in multiple locations & managers in  interviewing techniques
• ØSet up contact lens departments in new branches of an optical chain and trained new employees
• ØSpeak and understand some Spanish, French and Italian
• ØExcelled at Dale Carnegie course, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND HONORS

• Beta Phi Mu (International Library Science Honor Society)
• American Library Association (ALA) and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
• Medical Librarians Association (MLA)
• North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL)

You can reach me at ninadembin@gmail.com