Christopher Bock Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, United States

Member of the Senior Operational Leadership Team, developing partnerships with other executive leaders in Finance, Legal, and Regulatory.Meets with the Finance Team to maintain oversight of core expenditures and strategize study enrollment to maximize revenue.Operational Lead for new faculty hires, to include developing new research space plans, including managing new construction and coordinating core responsibilities to meet increased study/research demands.Responsible for the administrative direction and operational execution of all research cores (Nutrition, Imaging, Calorimetry, Exercise, and Recruitment Cores), including clinical trial recruitment, participant-facing, and data generating shared services.Develops a collaborative approach to creative solutioning/development with the Clinical Trial Recruitment Manager, fostering partnerships with Principal Investigators (PIs) and other institutes within the AdventHealth Research Institute.Leading a major shift in recruitment culture to data driven recruitment strategies with multi-phased, participant focused approaches, resulting in a cost reduction in study enrollment.Created and maintains team structure that promotes a work culture that supports and enables managers to operate as their core’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as they interact with PIs across the various Institutes and industry sponsored programs, and business development project managers.Continues to serve as the = Calorimetry Core SME, including developing new core capabilities, applying new technology, working with external academic and industry partnerships (e.g., NIH, pharma companies, other health institutes), and collaborating on manuscript writing and protocol development decisions.Collaborates with Nutrition, Imaging, Calorimetry, Exercise, and Recruitment Cores to project capital requests, new staffing hires, and overall operational expenditures to meet research demands.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Increases core leadership through management of Nutrition and Exercise Core Managers and their multi-disciplined teams.• Manages the Energy, Metabolism, and Calorimetry Core staff by instituting process control and maintaining quality across studies.• Allocates resources and adapts staffing to meet research calorimeters demands required during fluctuating coverage needs by hiring graduate students with the right technical skillsets, qualifications, and flexible schedules.• Implemented efficiencies to promote cost-savings, thus minimizing overhead costs and staying under budget.• Develops processing tools to create an efficient approach to data output for investigators.• Provides investigators with an understanding of the research tools available within the core.• Works with Principal Investigators (PIs), grants, and contracts to establish time and effort needs for 24/7 chamber coverage that balance participant needs and budgetary considerations.• Actively engages in the protocol development process for research studies.• Continues to pursue new technologies to leverage calorimeter gas collection beyond energy expenditure.• Works with Nutrition and Exercise managers to allocate resources, develop staffing plans, and cross-train personnel to maximize coverage efficiencies.• Provides expertise to PIs for Energy Intake decisions; works with Nutrition Core to implement calculations.

Orlando, Florida Area

•Original developer of the instrumentation and data output processes for what are now three (3) separate Research Cores: Imaging; Exercise; and Energy, Metabolism, and Calorimetry (e.g., metabolic carts, DEXA, VO2 max carts, activity monitors).• Oversaw design, construction, and validation of room calorimeters.• Created data processing macros that enable efficient machine to database communication.• Developed and implemented systems to maintain performance standards.• Worked with scientists to optimize data output and database structure.• Managed validation protocol to enable power analyses for future studies.• Hired and trained multi-disciplined calorimetry team to manage 24-hour testing

• Collaborated with PhD candidates to advance lab projects performing clean room fabrication and learning chip testing techniques.• Successfully worked on joint and confidential projects as the newest member of the multi-cultural lab.• Team Lead for a confidential U.S. Army Project involving microfluidic chip-based biosensors.• Lead investigator in the design, fabrication, and testing of a particle separator for biocharacterization in disparate environments.• Contributor in the circuit design of the heaters and programming to control chip operation.• Created and submitted monthly and quarterly progress reports to the industry partner.

Worked with staff at warehouse to repair and ship donated hospital equipment.

Supervised the installation and repair of medical equipment for the ICU and Neo-natal ward (Patient monitors, defibrillators, blood pressure monitors, oxygen concentrators, x-ray, incubators, ultrasound, ventilators. )Trained nursing staff for proper use of equipment and supervised their application of that knowledge in the ICU

Designed and built a biomedical device intended for the prevention of fractures during hip surgeryCollaborated with Orthopedic Surgeons from NY area hospitals Developed the project proposal, including a budget and time lineSuccessfully executed the project, within budget and in keeping with the timeline. Developed a prototype and performed mechanical tests at St. Vincent's hospital in NY to establish proof of conceptDesigned, built and tested the circuitry for the electrical components related to the deviceConducted market research to gain a better understanding of the current and potential future competition, the pluses and minuses of our device in comparison and helped establish a marketing plan.Utilized market research to incorporate modifications to the design to best meet the needs of our customers (surgeons)Filed provisional patent application for the device

Master'S Of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Miniature Engineering Systems Program

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Volleyball

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

RELEVANT COURSEWORK Bioengineering, Biomedical Transport Phenomena, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Engineering Physiology, Biosystems.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, EMBS

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Biomedical/Medical Engineering