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Palo Alto, California, United States

• Assist general dentists Dr. Sharma and Dr. Lin chairside with procedures including fillings, crown/bridge/veneer preparations and deliveries, cleanings, and dental emergencies.
• Take x-rays and impressions to fabricate bleach trays, night guards, retainers, and sports guards.
• Order supplies monthly.
• Sterilize instruments and set up, break down, and stock operatories.
• Cross-trained to support front office with scheduling and confirming appointments through Dentrix, collecting payments, coordinating patient care with specialists, and answering phones, emails, and texts.
• Trained newly hired assistants.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Teach patients how to perform rehabilitation exercises and stretches with proper form.
• Prepare and apply traction, ice, and heat treatments.
• Document patients' responses and progress through the exercise program.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

• In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, devise a remote learning format by producing online curriculum materials, animation clips, weekly newsletters and worksheets, and instructor training materials.
• Increase online engagement by designing social media posts about nutrition information, organization updates, and recipes for the Instagram account of all four chapters.
• Pilot a new food sustainability curriculum that informs local elementary students on the dietary changes that individuals can make to work towards a more sustainable food system.
• Recruit new volunteers.
• Manage a team of seven directors and assistant directors.

• Awarded the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) grant to investigate 1st and 2nd graders’ nutrition knowledge and understanding of balancing food groups before and after participation in KIN’s 6-week.
• Produced a virtual research poster for the URCA Digital Colloquium.

Empower local elementary school students to live active, healthy lifestyles through interactive nutrition education (adapted to Zoom lessons during the COVID-19 pandemic).

Santa Barbara, California

• Maintain mammalian cell culture and quantify data for the study of cell survival by anastasis, or the ability of the cell to return from the brink of death.
• Investigate how cell volume change contributes to apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The results from this project show that increased cell volume induced by a drug compromises the cell's ability to recover from an.

• Promote financial literacy on campus.
• Publicize club meetings and activities through social media, the club website, and posters.

Implement athletic events like an indoor cycling class, dodgeball, and volleyball games each quarter to bring my residence hall together and promote social bonding.

Doctor Of Dental Surgery

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cell And Developmental Biology

Activities and Societies: College of Letters and Science Honors Program, Honors Mentor, Clinical Health Peer for UCSB Department of Health.

Physics

Completed an entire year's worth of introductory physics and experimental labs in 8 weeks through the University of California Education.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, California Scholarship Federation, Principal's Honor Roll, Academic Excellence Award, AP.