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− Comprehensive Care Clinic for Children with Special Health Care Needs for medically complex children requiring additional healthcare management and care coordination.− Pre-Hospitalization Clinic to evaluate and medically optimize patients for procedures with anesthesia.− Adolescent Medicine specialty clinic for ages 12-21 years to provide teen focused care. − Pediatric Primary Care and walk-in urgent care for general pediatric continuity of care.

Nurse Practitioner in the School Health Program sponsored by Family Health Centers at NYU Langone in Brooklyn. Primary designation at School Based Health Center at co-located primary and secondary school (Beginning with Children Charter and Juan Morel Campos Secondary). - Sole medical provider serving patients ages 5-21. Addressed acute needs, chronic care, daily medication administration, physical exams (annual, sports, work, school), vaccinations, reproductive care, preventative care, and anticipatory guidance. - Responsible for supervision of clinic staff and site operations, including ordering and management of vaccines through VFC program, medications, instruments, clinical supplies, and office supplies.Floated to other clinics within network as needed, namely Sunset Park Family Health Center at NYU Langone. - During COVID-19 Pandemic, re-assigned to Augustana Pediatric Respiratory Screening Center. Screened and assessed patients under investigation for COVID-19 and MIS-C, ordered and performed nasopharyngeal swabs on pediatric and adult patients, conducted telehealth urgent care and outreach visits.

Primary care provider with full scope of practice alongside collaborating physician at a high-volume multidisciplinary PCMH FQHC in a designated HPSA in southwest neighborhood of Chicago serving high- need population with low to moderate medical complexity and significant socioeconomic complexity.− Panel: 1,135 patients. Age distribution: 5% <1 year, 25% 1-4 years, 36% 5-12 years, 34% 12-21 years. Approximately 60% Spanish speaking, 40% English speaking, <1% other (Mandarin, Cantonese, other). Payer mix greater than 60% Medicaid or self-pay/uninsured.− Volunteered as Onboarding Program Mentor training new providers in supervised practice for 3 weeks, conducting chart reviews, and providing continued support during their first 3 months of independent practice.

Primary care provider with full scope of practice and collaborating physician at a fast-paced private practice in the western suburbs of Chicago serving an ethnically and culturally diverse population of patients aged newborn to 21 years old with varying levels of medical and socioeconomic complexity.− Worked independently as sole provider 50% of the time. Personal support staff included 1 dedicated medical assistant and 1-2 floating medical assistants who provided Spanish translation, 1 front desk person, 3 Burmese care coordinators who also provided translation. Translation services also used for Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, French, Hindi, Urdu.− Volunteered with the Healthy Teens program conducting dietary assessments and fitness exams, providing nutritional counseling, motivational interviewing, and exercise counseling jointly with a physical trainer.

− Staff clinical nurse in a primary care pediatric office serving a diverse population, ages: newborn to 25 years.− Responsibilities include: phone triage, patient intake and vitals, immunizations, labs, spirometry, EMR.

− Meet with participants to conduct therapeutic visits – behavioral weight loss or cognitive behavioral therapy.− Guide and assist patient through self-help materials, trouble-shoot issues, and ensure study adherence.− Coordinate with participants to schedule visits, collect data, and record CRFs.

- Support all phases of clinical trial development, including set-up, maintenance, and close-out. - Assist with study feasibility assessments and preparation of study documents and materials for new studies. - Track clinical sites, maintain databases, update trial master file, and process site invoices and payments.- Assist with vendor evaluation, selection, coordination, tracking, and payments. - Organize meetings and perform administrative duties as needed.

Pediatric Department Healthy Life Style Clinic - Interview patients and administer questionnaires.- Provide education and resources on making healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices to prevent future disease. - Promote better eating habits and activity in children.- Set health achievement goals with families.

- Recruited, screened, and consented participants for multiple study protocols involving probiotic supplementation asthma prevention, treatment, and management.- Tracked participants to coordinate study visits, collect data, and ensure adherence to study protocols.- Conducted patient visits in clinic, record CRFs, collect specimens, and complete physical assessments.- Collaborated with physicians and staff to schedule patient visits and manage patient care.- Wrote recruitment materials, website content, newsletter content, progress reports, and SOPs.- Skills: MS Office, MS Access, GCP, HIPPA, IRB modifications, RedCap, written reports, recruitment, informed consent, patient interaction, working with pregnant women, shipping specimens

- Managed and maintained the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center Brain and Tissue Bank and databases.- Teamed with clinic, histology, and pathology staff to ensure efficient transfer and processing of tissue samples.- Collaborated with pathologists and database managers to provide tissue data and samples to the NCRAD.- Coordinated monthly conferences to compare clinical assessments with pathological diagnostic findings.- Skills: Microsoft Office, MTA, IRB, shipping specimens, IHC staining, microscopy, iCys, tissue handling

- Develop cost effective method for producing renewable, carbon-based building blocks for synthetic materials.- Screen C4-dicarboxylic acid transporter co-transformants for increased malic acid production in A.oryzae.- Analyze the malic acid production of transformants during shake flask fermentation via reverse phase HPLC.- Skills: DNA isolation, Vector NTI, primer design, PCR, gel electrophoresis, transformation, HPLC