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Heera Venguidesvarane

Heera Venguidesvarane

Dental Surgeon

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    General Dentist with a focus in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

  • Education

    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

      2016 - 2019
      Master's degree Epidemiology

      Activities and Societies: • Member ofThe Committee for Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability (CERS) (2017-2019) • Member of the International committee for the Student Society for Global Health (SSGH) (2017-2018) • Head of the Service committee for the Association of Students for Inter-Professional Healthcare (ASIPH) (2016-2017) Thesis: Evaluation of demands and needs for dental care and assessment of rate of attendance post emergency dental management among the homeless population in Houston, TexasAdvisors: Dr. James Hixson, Dr. Ezinne Ogbureke, Dr. Craig Hanis

    • Pondicherry University

      2010 - 2015
      Bachelor of dental surgery Dentistry

    • The University of Texas at San Antonio

      2016 - 2018
      Licentiate degree Dental Assisting/Assistant

    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

      2017 - 2019
      Graduate Certificate on Global health International/Global Studies

    • University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry

      2020 - 2022
      Doctor of Dental Surgery - DDS Dentistry

  • Experience

    • NSVK Sri Venkateshwara Dental College and Hospital

      Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
      Dental Surgeon

      Worked as a community dentist for all the community and school dental camps conducted by the institution in and around Pondicherry and worked as a supervising staff for the DS1 and DS2 students assessing their preclinical prosthodontic assignments and managed clinical cases requiring complete and partial dentures.

    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

      Nov 2016 - May 2018

      Assisted the PI in conducting a systematic review on a research project with formulating the research protocol in a written format and extracting data from the selected articles and creating databases to help the other teams working on assisted living research. Responsibilities during this period included communicating with the members and elucidating memberships and the facility's protocol, data entry into the system's database, maintaining records and evaluating for future use, managing various team events in the facility.

      • Graduate Research Assistant

        Jan 2018 - May 2018

      • Student Clerk

        Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry

      Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
      Research Assistant

      Responsibilities included but not limited to conducting systematic review on research topic involving craniofacial development and cancer cell formation, presenting findings in the team meetings, observing the various procedures conducted with the mouse models and formulating results based on the procedures.

    • MD Anderson Cancer Center

      Oct 2017 - May 2019
      Graduate Research Assistant

      Responsibilities included collecting patient information, creating and managing a research database of 4000 patients with papillary thyroid cancer and evaluating and maintaining the research protocol for the study

    • Healthcare for the Homeless - Houston

      Jan 2018 - May 2019
      Volunteer dental assistant

    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

      Aug 2018 - May 2019
      Graduate Research Assistant

      Responsibilities included but were not limited to screening and navigating patients through telephone interview in a multi- hospital site national study conducted in Houston, Texas.

    • Baylor College of Medicine

      Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
      Clinical Research Coordinator

    • Columbia Basin Health Association

      Aug 2022 - now
      General Dental Practitioner

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

      Texas State Board of Dental Examiners
      Nov 2016

    • Basic Life support (CPR and First Aid)

      The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry
      Jun 2022

    • Collaborative Institutional Training for Human research (CITI)

      The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
      Apr 2017

    • Interprofessional Team Training

      The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
      Apr 2017

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Heera Venguidesvarane
      OKU Sutro award for best PIP project in community health service and health promotion University of the Pacific May 2021
    • Awarded to Heera Venguidesvarane
      2018: Best topical poster award 7th Annual UTMB Global Health Education Symposium Oct 2018 Awarded the 2018: Best topical poster award for a project on “Dental Professional shortage areas in the United States: A descriptive study” at the 7th Annual UTMB Global Health Education Symposium at UTMB Galveston, Texas.
    • Awarded to Heera Venguidesvarane
      2nd Place in Research day 2018 University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health Apr 2018 Awarded second place for the poster on “Importance of examination of lateral neck nodes during routine diagnostic radiographic ultrasound in patients with thyroid cancer” at the Research Day 2018, at the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, Texas