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THOMAS YAW AYENSU ESSEL

THOMAS YAW AYENSU ESSEL

Health Information Specialist
Accra,Greater Accra Region

Summary

An Enthusiast for Healthcare systems strengthening to improve patient outcomes. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

  • Expertise in collecting, organizing, and analyzing healthcare data to derive insights and support evidence-based decision-making for improved patient outcomes and resource allocation.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, set realistic project goals, allocate resources, and deliver successful outcomes within defined timelines.
  • Proficient in providing training and support to healthcare staff on digital health, ensuring efficient adoption and utilization of technology to improve patient care and administrative processes


Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Operations Associate

Medtronic LABS
Kumasi, Ashanti Region
03.2022 - Current

Provided a variety of support to health facilities in person and remotely. Support include:

  • Technical: Created and unlocked user accounts across 23 health facilities for patient management and troubleshooting any challenge with digital health platform.
  • Field Operation: Supported onboarding process for new health facilities unto projects. Provided necessary logistics and consumables required to manage Diabetic and Hypertensive patients. Prepared monthly reports detailing operations activities.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Supported facility administration with required program performance report necessary to come up with plans to ensure continuous management of patients.
  • Capacity Building: Trained and retrained over 200 health care providers to use digital health platform called SPICE
  • Monitoring & Evaluation: Gathered, organised and modelled data to assist management in making key decisions. Evaluated KPI reporting and suggested potential corrective actions.

Medical Lab Technician

Pokuase Health Centre
Accra
03.2021 - 03.2022
  • Engaged in Phlebotomy, Hematology, Serology and Urinalysis at Lab
  • Partook in community health screening of Yaws among 300 children
  • Partook in COVID 19 vaccination registration and monitoring exercise organized by Health Directorate.

Programme Officer

PACKS Africa
Asylum Down, Accra
06.2020 - 12.2020
  • Assisted in development and implementation of program strategies
  • Successfully set up interviews with stakeholders of programs
  • Collected analysed and presented information needed for program development and implementation
  • Contributed to project titled "Supporting Pandemic Planning & Response". Project gathered information from stakeholders with regards to how to enhance preparedness for future pandemics
  • Conveyed organisation vision, mission and programmes to potential donors to form partnerships.

Data Analyst

PACKS Africa
Asylum Down, Accra
08.2018 - 12.2019
  • Transcribed audio and video interviews
  • Conducted both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
  • Participated in requirements meetings and data mapping sessions to understand business needs.
  • Generated weekly reports, detailing findings and advising recommendations for strategic decision making.
  • Executed feasibility studies to inform development of existing and proposed projects.

Research Assistant

University of Ghana-Biomedical Engineering Dept.
Legon
07.2017 - 08.2018
  • Revised and prepared experiment protocols
  • Reviewed print and online resources to gather information.
  • Carried out experiments and research following protocols laid out by primary researchers.
  • Conducted statistical analyses of data sets to identify patterns.
  • Wrote reports to summarise data and implications of results.
  • Conducted literature reviews to avoid duplication and give credit to other researchers.
  • Prepared reports for journal publications.

Education

MSc - Health Informatics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana
01.2023 -

Professional Diploma - Database Technology

IPMC
Ghana
01.2022 - 11.2023

BSc - Biomedical Engineering

University Of Ghana
Ghana
09.2013 - 05.2017

WASSCE Certificate - General Science

Adisadel College
Ghana
09.2010 - 04.2013

Skills

  • Currently an adept user of Microsoft Office Suite
  • Expertise in data analytical tool such as Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), an intermediate user of Python and Tableau
  • Experience in writing technical reports and summaries
  • Project coordination
  • Database management with tools like Data Modeler, SQL Developer
  • Intermediate user of NVivo for qualitative data analysis

Affiliations

Ghana Society of Biomedical Engineers (GSBE)

Accomplishments

  • First Author of a publication titled “Chitosan Composites Synthesized using Acetic Acid and Tetraethyl orthosilicate Respond Differently to Methylene Blue Adsorption” in MDPI Polymers Journal (April, 2018)
  • Fondazione Edu Scholarship Scheme beneficiary (2013-2017) - University of Ghana
  • Coordinated and contributed to the publication of findings in a project titled " Supporting Pandemic Planning and Response: Conversations with Stakeholders on the Management of Policy Decisions on COVID 19 in Ghana"
  • Helped coordinate the Akomapa project which give quality healthcare to underserved patients living in the urban and rural areas. Supported the enrollment of 75,000 persons living of Hypertension and Diabetes who were longitudinally managed using Medtronic LABS Tech platform, SPICE. Project achieved great success having contributed to more than 50 percent control rate for enrolled patients within a year.

Languages

English
Fluent

Leadership

  • District Youth Secretary- Ablekuma-Gbawe Youth Ministry, Assemblies of God-Ghana
  • Youth President- Fountain of Life, Assemblies of God-Ghana
  • Assistant Class Representative- Biomedical Engineering Department 2017 Class
  • Organizing Secretary -Assemblies of God Campus Ministry (AGCM) - Mensah Sarbah Hall

References

Elvis K. Tiburu (PhD)

Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Ghana

Akwasi Obeng Appiah

Head of Field Operations , Medtronic LABS-Ghana

Eric Sackey Mensah

Ashanti Regional Clinical Engineering Manager, Ghana Health Service

Quote

Knowledge is in the public domain but its acquisition is a private affair

Timeline

MSc - Health Informatics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
01.2023 -

Operations Associate

Medtronic LABS
03.2022 - Current

Professional Diploma - Database Technology

IPMC
01.2022 - 11.2023

Medical Lab Technician

Pokuase Health Centre
03.2021 - 03.2022

Programme Officer

PACKS Africa
06.2020 - 12.2020

Data Analyst

PACKS Africa
08.2018 - 12.2019

Research Assistant

University of Ghana-Biomedical Engineering Dept.
07.2017 - 08.2018

BSc - Biomedical Engineering

University Of Ghana
09.2013 - 05.2017

WASSCE Certificate - General Science

Adisadel College
09.2010 - 04.2013
THOMAS YAW AYENSU ESSELHealth Information Specialist