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California, United States

• Spearheaded PHA's first year as an organization independent of SCOPE.
• Expanded volunteer operations to a new outpatient clinic and PHA's first-ever inpatient service.
• Spearheaded PHA's most successful recruitment cycle ever, with a 5% increase in applicants and 15% increase in applicant quality compared to the previous cycle.
• Restructured PHA's leadership, adding a finance director position to streamline funding requesting, application, and acquisition.
• Facilitated an overhaul of PHA's resource databank to make it more convenient and accessible to members.
• Facilitated an overhaul of PHA's Fall training class to make it more immediately applicable and engaging to new members.

• Shadowing primary care physicians and providing their patients with personalized resource recommendations to address unmet social needs.
• Overseeing a team of six other student volunteers to develop informational materials, and organizing a health fair for houseless individuals in Downtown LA.
• Spearheaded PHA’s most selective recruitment cycle ever, with 14 new members chosen from a pool of 200 applicants after personally scoring 60+ applications and interviewing 20+ candidates.
• Teaching Social Welfare 195, a for-credit class on public health, motivational interviewing, and social needs most requested by the patients we work with.
• Working with physician clinic directors to expand PHA’s areas of operation and provide resources to broader patient populations.

• Writing grant applications to secure funding for transportation and procuring materials needed to effectively work with patients and streamline our volunteer workflow.
• Coordinating with other members to understand costs and apply for funding towards club activities and retreats.
• Communicating with UCLA funding bodies to ensure club members are fully reimbursed for expenses in a timely and efficient manner.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Ensuring IRB compliance on multiple quality improvement and funded research projects.
• Enrolling patients in surveillance and geriatrics-oriented quality improvement studies.
• Screening patients for unmet social needs and providing personalized resource recommendations based on those needs in order to improve the comprehensiveness of care provided in the ED.
• Preparing posters and manuscripts on diagnostic excellence and geriatric medicine.

• Assisting a physician-researcher with their projects by performing statistical analysis as well as coordinating with research teams at other sites and preparing slideshows.
• Performed quantitative and qualitative analysis on more than 3,000 survey responses to discern the acceptability of an alert when prescribing certain medications.
• Reviewed and summarized more than 50 pieces of literature to determine specific aspects of a definition to be discussed by an expert panel.
• Assisted research staff with the organization, processing, and documentation of thousands of samples in the Lung Institute BioBank.

• Giving presentations to UCLA student organizations on sexual health, safety, consent, and communication.
• Distributing contraceptives to the UCLA student body as a part of the Student Wellness Commission's initiative promoting sexual wellbeing around campus.
• Created an informative slideshow on how to access contraceptive medications through health insurance providers.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Documenting the identities, properties, and locations of thousands of chemicals belonging to UCLA’s various research laboratories with RFID tags for increased safety and more efficient inter-lab collaboration.
• Communicating with Primary Investigators and their researchers to ensure proper storage of chemicals and adherence to safe laboratory practices.
• Tagging and transporting unwanted chemicals to ensure they are properly stored or disposed of once removed from the lab.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry

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