Heather Tobin Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma

Weymouth, Ma

Works per diem in areas of the hospital such as pharmacy, ER, ICU discharge, and specialists.

• Managed and coordinated a diverse and stimulating caseload for a neurology team of 12 employees.• Responsible for ensuring employees followed hospital policies and procedures and adhered to OSHA and AAHA standards.• Managed daily caseload of inpatients and outpatients from appointment to discharge.• Collaborated with veterinarians and staff regarding patient assessment, diagnostics, treatments, and procedures and executed such tasks as needed.

Boston, Ma

• Assists with the development, oversight and monitoring of research compliance processes to promote and facilitate compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations, ethical, practice and care standards as well as BU policies and procedures.• Supports BU’s research community and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) in ensuring the humane care and use of animals. • Responsible for conducting administrative pre-review of material submitted to the IACUC and all IACUC documentation and record keeping, including meeting agenda, inspection reports, and noncompliance reports to regulatory and other oversight or funding agencies.• Conduct administrative pre-review of IACUC submission, conduct risk assessments, perform routine and post-approval monitoring, and assist with development and implementation of policies, procedures, and practices designed to promote compliant practices and mitigate risk.• Provide guidance and education to investigators to assure compliance with research regulations and standards while facilitating compliance with decisions and corrective actions, and participating/leading special projects from concept to completion.

• Maintained researcher safety compliance for biological, chemical, and radiological concerns. • Assisted with the operational oversight of research safety at Boston Children’s Hospital with a specific concentration in the Animal Research at Children’s Hospital facility.• Assisted with New Employee Orientation, Annual Refresher Training, Laboratory Support Group, and Animal Use Orientation for Safety. • Assisted as needed with waste management and incident response, facility safety and compliance audits, development and implementation of compliance and operational policies, procedures, and manuals.• Noting member for IACUC protocols, as well as, assisted in the review of all animal related research protocols.• On-call for research critical repository emergency response.

•Provided managerial support to the laboratory of Dr. Donald Ingber as the Laboratory Manager. •Attended meetings, such as Laboratory Support Group and Rodent User Group, to ensure the Ingber Lab remained compliant with hospital policies.•Worked closely with our lab and the research community to ensure compliance with protocols, procedures, and other hospital standards.•Worked closely with collaborating researchers at the Wyss Institute to ensure their projects complied with hospital policies, procedures, and standards. •Continued work as a Veterinary Assistant by maintaining mouse colonies, providing technical support to researchers, and assisting with protocol submissions.

•Provided veterinary care for the mouse colony of the laboratory of Dr. Donald Ingber•Created and revised research protocols for IACUC approval. •Assisted researchers with their project work (i.e., tissue processing, mouse dissections, PCR reactions, IHC staining, data analysis, and DNA preparations).

Boston, Ma

•Provided clinical care to rodents and canines. •Supported all animal care and operational responsibilities. •Maintained canine colony and rodent sentinel program.

Boston, Ma

• Responsible for anesthesia, pain management, and induction of patients.• Managed and coordinated surgical teams.• Communicated and coordinated surgical procedures with all departments.

Boston, Ma

• Monitored patients during surgical procedures.• Assisted veterinarians in treating and performing various procedures.• Preformed routine duties in caring for patients.

Quincy, Ma

• Surgical assistant, patient recovery attendant.• Doctor/Client communication liaison. • Clerical duties included maintenance of medical records, data entry, prescription set-up and distribution, and client service.

Master'S Degree, Biotechnology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology With A Concentration In Marine Biology And Minor In Chemistry