Investigating how mindfulness interventions can mitigate risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancyExamining novel correlations between maternal mindfulness training and fetal neurodevelopmentDeveloped skills in in participant recruitment and screening, interview transcription and coding

Held weekly recitation sessions to review lecture material and Q&A sessions to review material prior to exams Addressed student inquiries regarding course material, studying neuroscience, and premedical studies Helped grade weekly quizzes and midterm and final exams

Helped grade weekly reflections on primary scientific articles regarding the impact of meditation practice on brain structure and function Answered student inquires regarding course content and structureHelped with course administrative duties

Developed skills in cell sub-culturing, DNA extraction and quantification, tumorsphere quantification, virus transfection and transduction, polymerase-chain reaction, gel electrophoresisWorked on various projects studying signal transduction pathways in glioblastoma stem cells

Learned about symptoms, method of diagnosis, surgical and nonsurgical treatment, and the pathology of the disease process of neurological conditions as well as the various diagnostic modalities such as XRAY, ultrasound, CT scan, MRILearned about the basics of hospital administration, medical and surgical billing, and EMREngaged in multidisciplinary conferences on neurosurgical tumors, spinal injury, cerebrovascular irregularities,innovation in neurosurgery, as well as a weekly intern meeting to review case studies

Internship shadowing an Orthopedic Hand and Trauma Surgeon