Abigail Kim Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston

Greater Boston Area

Boston

• TA for class entitled: Consumer Organizing and Advocacy for Health System Change. The course emphasized the practical applications of capacities such as organizing and policy analysis to influence health policy.
• Facilitated class discussion, helped with design of class projects, lead parts of class, and worked individually with students to address questions and concerns.

Greater Boston Area

• Worked in the office of State Senator John Keenan as the state sought passage of a comprehensive bill addressing the opioid crisis.
• Focused primarily on the inclusion of language that would require emergency departments and prisons/jails to provide medications for addiction treatment and legislation authorizing a pilot harm reduction site for.
• Prepared talking points, briefs and a caucus presentation to inform conversations regarding the proposed legislation.
• Created a detailed data brief through collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and researchers to demonstrate the burden of opioid use on individual cities and towns in the state, including.
• Participated in meetings with other legislators and their staff, stakeholders and advocates to understand the variety of perspectives and opposition to the legislation.
• Compiled an organized document mapping the iterations of the opioid bill from its conception by the Governor to the final version that was passed, helping to inform the staff and Senator of the bill’s progression.

• Screened, enrolled, and interviewed participants in a NIH-funded clinical research study of inpatients with alcohol use disorder at Boston Medical Center.
• Tracked subjects over time and conducted follow up interviews.
• Provided administrative support to the study, assisted with the development of protocols, forms and assessments and performed quality control procedures for the ongoing research.

Institute On Urban Health Research And Practice

• Transcribed qualitative interviews, performed extensive data input and executed administrative tasks for a study to assess how literacy levels affect mental health service utilization and recovery.

Greater Boston Area

• Performed statistical analyses and comprehensive literature searches to inform studies about child psychiatry in children with burns
• Wrote grant reports, abstracts, and proposals
• Interfaced with child psychologists, psychiatrists, and other staff
• Prepared presentations for the American Burn Association’s 46th Annual Conference and the 7th World Congress on Pediatric Burns

Boston, Massachusetts

• Compiled a comprehensive analysis of a large cohort of chart reviews which informed the creation and maintenance of a SPSS database for the assessment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors for the.
• Developed an easily accessible and modifiable REDCap database from Excel spreadsheets to improve triaging research participants
• Acquired knowledge of qualitative research methods and NVivo software through the analysis of qualitative needs-assessment interviews
• Improved patient interaction skills while performing vitals, phlebotomy, electrocardiograms, MRIs and by extensive observation of a battery of cognitive and behavioral assessments (MATRICS, UPSA) and clinical.
• Completed literature searches to supplement grants and assisting in NIH grant preparation and editing

Greater Boston Area

• Concentrated on the improvement of hand function in post stroke victims through use of a low-cost virtual reality-based glove
• Included in authorship of a formal poster to be presented at Northeastern’s RISE:2013 exhibition
• Educated self in the fields of physical therapy and virtual rehabilitation/gaming systems and learned how to perform the Jebson Hand Function Test

Master In Public Health, Health Policy & Law

Activities and Societies: Delta Omega Honor Society; Excellence in Practice Award Recipient; External Communications, Part Time Student.

Bachelor'S Degree, Behavioral Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: NEURONS-Neuroscience Club, Sigma Kappa Sorority