Resume

Name : NJABOU KATTE Jean Claude
Date of Birth : 01st November 1986 at FOKOUE.
Nationality : Cameroonian
Civil Status : Married
Address :

• RILD Building Level 3
• University of Exeter Medical School, RD&E Hospital Wonford
• Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK.

Telephone : (+237) 677 58 79 29, (+44) 7383 311 760
Email(s) : jckatte@gmail.com , jn377@exeter.ac.uk.

Language proficiency : Fluent in French and English. Scored 8.0/9.0 at the IELTS in June 2018.
License : Cameroon Medical Council (CMC) Number: 6277; Full Registration with License.

2018 – Present : Mphil/PhD Student

• Medical Studies
• University of Exeter Medical School Exeter, United Kingdom.

2016 – 2017 : Master by Research Clinical

• Epidemiology
• Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.

2014 – 2016 : Professional Master Public Health

• Biotechnology
• Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

2004 – 2011 : Doctor of Medicine

• (MD) Degree
• Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.

1998 – 2004 : GCE O & A Levels

• Arts and Sciences
• Baptist High School, Great Soppo, Buea, Cameroon

2010 : Clinical management of children with diabetes (type 1 diabetes mellitus) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
2012 : Postgraduate course in Epidemiology and Translational Research in Diabetes and CVD. Tanzania.
2016 : Chronic Disease Epidemiology at School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
2017 : Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview by University of Geneva.

2014 – Present : Member, ISHReCA: Initiative to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in Africa.
2016 – Present : Scientific Editor, PAMJ: Pan African Medical Journal.
2017 – Present : Member, AfSHG: African Society of Human Genetics
2017 – Present : Member, RSTMH, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2017 – Present : Member, ASTMH: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018 - Present : Fellow, CAYS: Cameroon Academy of Young Scientist.

December 2011 – December 2014 : Sub-Head: Emergency Department, Bafoussam Regional Hospital.

• Assure daily care of patients with diverse pathologies, most frequent being HIV/AIDS complications, diabetes and cardiovascular emergencies.
• Serve as liaison between the different specialists in the hospital.
• Participate in the clinical training of medical and nursing students at the Emergency department
• Ward skills involve placing of IV catheters, central IV lines, chest drains, castings and splinting with minor surgical procedures.

December 2011 – December 2014 : Focal Point: Changing Diabetes in Children (CDiC) Cameroon Clinic.

• Coordination of the clinical management of children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus in the West Region.
• Assure the regular and trimestral follow-up of all registered children in the programme.
• Send monthly reports to the head office at the Yaounde Central Hospital.
• Organise education workshops and diabetes camps for all the children with type 1 diabetes to strengthen education and to encourage parental participation to treatment.

March 2013 – December 2014 : Pioneer Head of Centre: Diabetes and Hypertension Treatment Centre.

• Coordinates the consultation and treatment of patients with diabetes and associated pathologies.
• Assure daily ward rounds in the diabetes unit and specialist referral for dialysis.
• Participate in training of para-medical staff in diabetes care.
• Participation in research projects with the centre as a clinical site.

January 2015 – December 2017 : Study Coordinator for the H3A Diabetes Study Cameroon.

• Coordination of the day-to-day operations of the project including patient recruitment at clinical sites
• Administration liaison services through public and community engagement for ethics
• Coordination of the update of clinical and laboratory datasets and transfer to the central hub in South Africa and Uganda respectively.

2011 : Minister of Higher Education Award. Best research graduating student of the 36th batch FMBS.
2012 : Governor’s Award. Best Medical Staff of the Bafoussam Regional Hospital.
2016 : InterAcademy Partnership (IAP): Young Physician Leader (YPL) Award 2016.
2016 : H3Africa Travel Fellowship.
2017 : Co-recipient of the JC Mbanya Fellowship Award (5000 Euros) 2017 Africa Diabetes Congress.

• Computer literacy : MS Office-Excel, Powerpoint, Word, SPSS, EpiInfo
• Voluntary translator and interpreter of medical articles and conference in English to French (vice-versa).
• Hobbies: football, table tennis, piano playing, reading and photography

• Oral Communication : How does research question dictates study design. Cameroon Cardiac Society Congress, March 2018, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• Poster Discussion : Genetic susceptibility of diabetes mellitus in Cameroon. A mini review. African Society of Human Genetics, November 2017, Cairo, Egypt.
• Poster Discussion : Bioinformatics in sub-Saharan Africa. Is Cameroon lagging behind? African Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, October 2017, Entebbe, Uganda.
• Oral Communication : Urbanisation and non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in Cameroon. Strategies for solutions. Cameroon Academy of Sciences Workshop, May 2017, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• Poster Discussion : Procalcitonin as a biomarker for cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 10th H3Africa Consortium meeting, May 2017, Gaborone, Botswana.
• Oral Communication : Better Leadership and Improved Healthcare: The Leadership we want. World Health Summit Young Physician Leaders Forum, October 2016, Berlin, Germany.
• Poster Discussion : Social media and diabetes care in Africa: the case of Cameroon. The 2nd Africa Diabetes Congress, 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• Oral Communication : Starting a hospital-based diabetes management program in a semi-urban setting: from community action to implementation. The 2nd Africa Diabetes Congress 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• Childhood Diabetes. African Diabetes Congress 2012 Booklet.
• Poster Discussion : Effects of one week intensive insulin intervention on insulin sensitivity in poorly controlled type 2 diabetic patients. World Diabetes Congress 2011, Dubai, UAE.