Graduate Research Assistant
• Conducted a 100-day high-fat, oleic acid, and palmitic acid diet intervention in guinea pigs to assess the impact of dietary fats on cardiac function, specifically electrical and structural ventricular remodeling.• Investigated the role of ion channel conductance modulations in an isolated atrial myocyte computational model of atrial fibrillation.• Assessed the role of human epicardial adipose tissue cytokine secretion in cardiac health.