Emily (Mccormick) Merrick, Mph Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Co-directed and supported 15+ multifaceted national and regional clinical trials as a coordinator through regulatory, administrative, and managerial duties. - Engaged with a multidisciplinary team of 8 individuals conducting program management, analysis, and upkeep of various clinical trials, projects, and funding applications. - Implemented study specific protocol for regulatory processes in coordination with contracted research organizations, healthcare practitioners, and professional teams ranging from 10 to 100 members. - Composed presentations, manuscripts, abstracts, quality reports, and grant proposals to various accredited journals, clinical organizations, and medical conferences. - Launched a novel national intervention to promote well-being for Lupus patients during the COVID-19 pandemic with promise for future iterations, titled ACT for Lupus. - Spearhead the development of an online continuing medical educational activity in partnership with a nationally recognized medical society and design of an interactive monograph for distribution to medical providers. - Represented the organization at various conferences and networking events resulting in increased funding efforts and stimulating interest in research collaborations. - Successfully maintained efficiency in project coordination as remote employee from March 2020 till present.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

- Maximized recruitment efficiency by 40% through development of new operating procedures and tracking methods. - Successfully designed and implemented workflow guidelines to assist support staff in performing administrative and clinical activities for study visits. - Increased patient turnaround time and visit satisfaction serving as the UNC Lupus clinic’s medical scribe and lead patient recruitment efforts within the healthcare clinic.- Coordinated, organized, and maintained study documentation and regulatory operations for 10+ clinical studies.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Performed legal research on the topics of climate adaptation and resilience, insurance and climate change, property rights and climate change/resilience takings using Lexis.Assisted in the development and research of the Strengthen Your Roof Grant Program.

Chapel Hill, Nc

Worked as a research team in the Nicewicz Organic Chemistry Laboratory to evaluate the efficiency of pyrylium synthesis for photoredox catalysis in a university lab setting Arranged technical examinations and analyzed future improvements to present to PI Used instrumentation of GC, TLC, column chromatography, NMR, gel electrophoresis

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Health Policy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General