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Richmond, California, United States

Richmond, California, United States

Richmond, California, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

• Participate in a thirdhand smoke research project focused on former Chinese male smokers and their family members
• Conduct training for the lay health workers
• Check eligibilities and obtain consents from the lay health workers and the participant families
• Schedule two virtual meetings with each participant family to give guidance on how to collect dust and saliva samples, conduct questionnaires regarding their past smoking experience and thoughts toward thirdhand smoke.
• Communicate with the participant families regarding the research project using text messages, phone calls, and WeChat
• Translate necessary documents from English to Chinese, including the consent forms, survey questions, recruitment scripts, education flip chart, etc. (have translated more than 15,000 words so far)

Berkeley, California, United States

• Perform DNA Sanger sequencing with different protocols upon customers’ requests, steps including PCR reaction setup, clean-Seq process, and perform Sanger sequencing
• Enter and organize customers’ samples information collectively and properly
• Perform sequencing result analysis and decide the next-step solution for the samples that do not yield ideal results
• Deliver sequencing results by the promised time, communicate with customers through emails and calls, and provide consultation for customers who have inquiries regarding DNA sequencing

San Francisco Bay Area

• Performed face to face interpretation for patients who have inadequate English to communicate well with the physicians
• Filled out required English forms for the patients in the medical office
• Helped the patients to schedule future appointments

Nonthaburi, Thailand

• Conducted a cross-sectional study on pandemic influenza preparedness in border areas of Thailand
• Performed data analysis and found out the weak points of pandemic influenza preparedness in those areas
• Submitted a policy brief to the MoPH to give suggestion on how to strengthen outbreak preparedness
• Facilitated an English proficiency test for the officers in MoPH

San Francisco, California, United States

• Responsible for taking care of patients' requests, including interpretation
• Provided excellent customer service including politely directing patients to rooms, making appointments, answering phone calls from patients, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies, and organizing medical reports.
• Correctly billed insurances using ICD 10 medical codes and obtained patients’ eligibilities and benefits before their first medical visit

Davis, California, United States

• Screened out homozygous mutant Arabidopsis thaliana that were difficult to contain due to the deficiency in fertility; localized the mutant protein to study its interaction with microtubules
• Studied the function of protein GCP-6, which is one of the members in the γ-Tubulin ring
• Maintained lab organization including making plate media with antibiotics, cleaning glassware, autoclaving waste, and refilling lab supplies
• Collaborated with other researchers in lab to perform projects
• Presented the study results at the 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at UC Davis

Davis, California, United States

• Carried out campaigns that help raise people’s attention about environment, specifically gathered petition to keep the plastic bag ban in California
• Participated in fundraising activities such as phone calling and directly talked to students on campus. We successfully kept 10% of the students on campus pledged to contribute $10 per quarter to our group to keep the.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Infectious Diseases And Vaccinology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biotechnology

-Minor in Japanese