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Ucsf Medical Center - San Francisco Bay Area

- Lead onsite as Primary Customer Liaison Consultant and seamlessly communicate between cross-functional teams internally and externally for effective software deployment, digital OR integration and cloud-platform data sharing at customer-site - Optimize strategies to build trust and maintain long-standing customer relationship with effective interpersonal communication - Real-time consultation for clinical software guidance, technical support and creative problem solving for Brainlab software + hardware in Operating Room – Ensure HIPAA + FDA-compliance- Manage local UCSF Bio-Technician team of 8, conduct technical product trainings, schedule and delegate daily case responsibilities- Identify/forecast user needs and collaborate with Brainlab Area Manager to build existing and new business by driving utilization and key account independence of products and services- Collaborate with local product marketing and sales training teams as technical product expert, for surgeon- and surgery-specific insight to strategize in-depth and targeted business approach - Drive new product/service roadmap: plan, create, deliver, implement and execute within set timeframe & maintain records - Document procedural case observations for FDA compliance and investigate post-procedural events. Design new/improved workflows for pioneering product use in advanced research-driven procedures such as those at UCSF - Workflow documentation distributed globally within Brainlab - Gathering quantitative/qualitative data and translating active user feedback to R&D Brainlab Germany team to adopt into new product and service design features for iterative prototyping- Communicate effectively with deductive and inductive reasoning to keep key stakeholders in the know of product/service roadmap

Greater New Orleans Area

The big picture of my research study was to elucidate therapeutic methods to control whole body glucose homeostasis as there is presently heavy reliance on pharmaceutical intervention for glucose metabolism disorders such as diabetes. My study in specific targeted on establishing a mouse model for Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 (TRPV1)-expressing liver-related Paraventricular Nucleus (PVN) neurons in order to identify location and type of these regulatory neurons which can be furthered to investigate direct Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) control of overall glucose homeostasis. Some key procedures included: - Carrying out mice surgeries to administer liver/pancreas injections of pseudorabies virus and suturing wounds for healing. - Perfusion of these TRPV1-cre mice tagged with tdTomato label in order to obtain the brains. - Brains are then sliced using cryostat and mounted before imaging with fluorescent confocal microscopy to study results. This study was central to my undergraduate thesis and for the CELT research grant poster presentation.

Fostering a cooperative and considerate educational community environment, whichcontributes to the academic success and personal growth of residents by taking on the roles as their leader, friend and mentor.

In order to apply in vivo, in vitro, and computational bioengineering approaches to better understand the regulation of adult microvascular patterning and the functional relationships between microvascular remodeling and other network remodeling processes such as neurogenesis and lymphangiogenesis. I assisted in various lab study procedures to establish a rat-model in order to induce angiogenesis in the mesentery tissue. The primary motive of this regenerative medicine study is to gain valuable insight for the engineering of functional vascularized tissues and for understanding vascular dysfunction associated with multiple pathological conditions, such as hypertension, tumor growth, and wound healing.

ŸStudied RNA and gene expression of infectious streptococcus pyogens (Group A Strep.), streptococcus pneumonia pathogens, TB and HIV/AIDS. Applied genetic, molecular, biochemical, physiological and cell infection theories to identify and understand function of pathogens at molecular and cellular level, to apply computational techniques and bioinformatics datasets to elucidate predictive models for disease progression in humans.

Tutored undergraduate students in one-on-one sessions and group sessions in GeneralChemistry I & II, Physics I & II, Cell and Molecular Biology, Calculus III. (This job was offered in the first semester of my freshman year, which is unusual, and solely due to my 'A' Level courses attained at St. George's.)

Assisted post-doctoral student with duties such as carrying out cross-breeding different types of Arabidopsis Thaliana plant on a daily basis and tagging them as required, attended seminars regularly that featured various research studies (not limited to plant breeding research) and presenting progress/results of my project of exposing the cross-bred plant species to different cyclic temperature environments to see effects on flowering and growth.

New Orleans

Using computational and experimental approaches, the research studies in this lab focus on the interactions of blood cells and circulating tumor cells with vascular endothelium, exploring cavitation effects on the ablation of biological tissues, and developing advanced methods for rheological characterization of living cells and tissues. The clinical applications of this basic research are pathophysiology and treatment of cancer and inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases. I shadowed and assisted the graduate student's thesis project involving the high-frequency ultrasound method to ablate cancerous tumors in mice in a targeted fashion.Ÿ 1) Certified for live animal research (Department of Comparative Medicine)Ÿ2) 3D designed specialized water tank for focused application of High Frequency Ultrasound on specimen

High School, Mathematics And Sciences

Activities and Societies: Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award & Duke of Edinburgh Silver AwardObtained 11 GCSE's: General Certification.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Tulane's Biomedical Engineering curriculum and translational studies are targeted and integrated, vastly spanning areas of biomaterials.