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Los Angeles, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

• Operations lead working with cross-enterprise teams (i.e. engineering, finance, recruiting, business development) to manage national clinical provider contracts for Neurology and Psychiatry practices
• Liaison between clinical and executive business stakeholders responsible for leading successful contract implementation, maintaining client partnerships, improving throughput and designing workflows, optimizing site.
• Digital health program manager overseeing daily operations of national program serving over 7,000 patients/year

San Francisco Bay Area

• Project manager for the creation of Vituity’s Emergency Psychiatric Intervention Toolkit- a guide for Emergency providers in the care and treatment of acute psychiatric patients in the Emergency Department
• Program lead and data manager for telemedicine practices (tele-neurology, tele-urgent care, tele-skilled nursing facility)
• Operational support for new clinical partnerships

UCLA

• Certified to draw blood from patients or study subjects in the state of California

Division Of Pediatrics/Neonatology

• Clinical and scientific data collection, management and analysis
• Extensive experience using statistical packages, including SPSS and Excel, and database builder RedCap
• Study coordinator for IRB approved study- Experience with analyzing patient data, processing patient samples, and consenting patients for the study
• Experience with writing IRB and Red CAP – Helped prepare IRB for a UCLA clinical study and set-up database for inputting patient data using Red CAP
• Worked extensively on quality assurance project reducing pediatric hospital readmissions

Department Of Pediatrics, Division Of Neonatology

• Studying the neonatal immune response to Vitamin D using cord blood monocytes and adult and neonatal plasmas
• In-lab experience with cell culture, separation of PBMCs from red blood cells, Cytokine ELISA, RNA extraction, PCR, isolation of T-cells from blood samples, handling of human blood specimens, immunohistochemistry, and.
• Management of undergraduate work-study students- Interviewed, hired, and managed undergraduates working in lab

Greater Los Angeles Area

LA-based start-up advocating smoking cessation through an integrated smart-phone app- Co-wrote research protocol for pilot study- Participated in product and business development- Wrote and conducted user demographic survey

Department Of Pediatrics And Molecular Genetics

• Assisted on research project; developed an assay for DNA extraction for PCR and gene sequencing from patient tissue samples
• In-lab experience with cell culture, DNA extraction, gel-electrophoresis, SDS-page, DNA sequencing, PCR, restriction digests, in-situ hybridization, plasmid DNA purification, handling of mouse and zebra fish animal.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physiological Science

Master'S Degree, Public Health