Hamideh Sarmast

undergrad: Health science

Masters: Adult education

Doctorate: Educational leadership

2020-2023 Home care company 

Manager

Management and supervision of caregivers in providing home care services to patients in their homes.

2021-2023 Hollyburn Family Services-BC-Canada

Relief worker

Working with special needs youth. 

Collaborate with co-workers, supervisors, and other authorities to help special needs youth and empower them to improve their health and lifestyle.

2019-2020 Medicare Medical Clinic- BC- Canada

Mental health education assistant

Assisting clinic physicians in empowerment activities aimed at helping patients with mental illness, and alcohol and drug dependence. Creating an electronic comprehensive mental health, alcohol and drug dependence assessment tools, assessing patients’ health status and providing appropriate treatments and education. 

2014-2020 Faculty of Education, SFU, Vancouver, Canada 

Research Assistant 

Assisting the AGE-WELL project. Teaching workshops (educational interventions), conducting pre/post-intervention studies, focus groups, and interviews and providing reports. 

2013-2014 Research institute, VGH- UBC- Faculty of Medicine 

Research Assistant

Developed health education materials for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) study, implemented educational intervention based on developed materials and evaluated and provided study reports. The results were presented in the: 
Learning Together Conference 2016, Multiculturalism Education in Canada, SFU, Faculty of Education, 2015

Sarmast HH: What effect does educational material in the mother tongue of individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have on their self-management of COPD? 

2012   BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Research Assistant

Reviewed literature about Theoretical Domain Framework, which is an interventional model for behaviour change in the healthcare system, its utilization and limitations. The result of the study was published:

Mosavianpour M, Sarmast HH, Kissoon N, Collet J: Theoretical domains framework to assess barriers to change for planning healthcare quality interventions: a systematic literature review. J Multidiscip Healthc 2016, 9(July):303–310.

2010-2011 BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada 

Consultant, quality improvement projects

Developed an evaluation checklist for evaluating quality improvement projects in BC children’s hospital wards based on PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) model, which is an interactive four-stage problem-solving model utilized for improving the processes and carrying out changes. 

2014-2018 Faculty of Education (UBC), Vancouver, BC 

Evaluating educational projects/programs 

Evaluation OPENPediatrics was launched in 2012 by integrating IBM, Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital to connect pediatricians worldwide to enable them to share their knowledge and experiences, to improve their professional competencies, to help ill children and save lives.

2014-2022 UBC (Canada), GMercyU (USA)

Systematic Literature review and research methodology

Systematic reviews of the literature (SLRs) identify, select and critically appraise research aimed at answering a clearly defined question though following a clearly defined protocol or plan stated before the review begins.

Doctoral student (EdD): Educational leadership in higher education, GmercyU, Pennsylvania, USA

Master’s Degree (MA): Educational Studies, UBC, Vancouver, 2014-2017

Bachelor of Science in public health (BSPH), Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences (Iran)