Implementation Lead/Program Manager - Clinical Transformation

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Rifky Bal­ga­hom is cur­rent­ly the Imple­men­ta­tion Lead and Pro­gram Man­ag­er in Clin­i­cal Trans­for­ma­tion for Statewide Micro­bi­ol­o­gy, where he plays a key role in deliv­er­ing trans­for­ma­tion­al ini­tia­tives aligned with the NSW Health Pathol­o­gy vision for our lab­o­ra­to­ries of the future. As a Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment Con­sul­tant, he was respon­si­ble for dri­ving the stan­dard­i­s­a­tion of qual­i­ty man­age­ment process­es as part of the Fusion QMIS (Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem) project which lead to the imple­men­ta­tion of QPoint, our statewide QMIS.

Pri­or to this role, Rifky was the Senior Hos­pi­tal Sci­en­tist and Micro­bi­ol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry Man­ag­er at Nepean Hos­pi­tal for over 10 years. Through­out his career, he has worked across all lev­els of the micro­bi­ol­o­gy dis­ci­pline, with a strong focus on opti­mis­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry work­flows and intro­duc­ing syn­dromic infec­tious dis­eases mul­ti­plex PCR assays.

EXPERTISE

Microbiology Public Health Pathology

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PHONE

0416 807 501

RECENT ARTICLES & SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Validation of specimen pooling using the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 assay

An Australian diagnostic microbiology surge response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Evaluation of the BioFire Blood Culture Identification 2 panel and impact on patient management and antimicrobial stewardship

Molecular typing of enteroviruses: comparing 5'UTR, VP1 and whole genome sequencing methods.

Unexpected detection of human parechovirus in infants with suspected meningitis using real-time multiplex PCR

RELATED SERVICES

Microbiology

Our microbiologists and virologists are critical to NSW public health and emergency responses to pathogen-borne disease, and their expertise is recognised world-wide.

Public Health Pathology

A statewide service delivering a coordinated response for all NSW notifiable diseases in collaboration with the NSW Ministry of Health.