Spanish interpreter for patients in labor and delivery, adult and adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit and for any type doctor appointments.

•Coordinate the daily operations of the cardiovascular genetics and pathophysiology laboratory.•Work independently on experiments of own design, decide how experiments should be set up, and proceed to reach end results. •Interpret data and report findings to the Principal Investigator.•Utilize specialized knowledge for the extraction and analysis of DNA and RNA.•Perform and interpret tissue culture experiments such as neonatal cardiac myocytes, while maintaining an extensive database and collection of samples for genetic research. •Process human blood for clinical studies.•Assemble, test, calibrate, clean or make minor repairs to laboratory equipment, including specialized, highly sensitive and unique equipment that requires specialized knowledge/skill.•Order laboratory animals, DNA sequencing reagents, specialized DNA primers, and other unique reagents for experiments based on grant guidelines and experimental data.•Manage staff including recommending for hire and performance appraisal, training of new laboratory personnel, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows on laboratory techniques. •Receive calls after routine work hours from post-doctoral fellows with questions.•Utilize discretion in budget preparation and forecasting. Track budget and grant expenditures, make sure they are charged appropriately and adhere to grant stipulations.•Communicate with vendors, review costs, and choose the appropriate reagents for laboratory experiments. Set environmental health and safety standards and policy.•Identify common genetic variants associated with cardiovascular traits (myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors) and determine the ability of these variants to increase the predictive capacity of traditional cardiovascular risk functions.

• Involved in the research for genetic mutations in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia and other inherited heart diseases•Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse transcriptase PCR, and enzyme digests•Extract DNA from blood •Extract DNA from paraffin-embedded tissues •Extract DNA and RNA from tissue•Gel electrophoresis•DNA sequencing and analysis•Bacterial transformation•Tissue culture, transfection, staining•Southern blotting•Media preparation (bacteria and mammalian cell lines)

•Clinical genetic testing for different genetic diseases such as Beta Globin, Beta Thalassemia, Craniosynostoses (FGFR and TWIST Related), Cystic Fibrosis, Surfactant Protein Deficiencies (SFTPC and SFTPB), Treacher Collins Syndrome, Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome, Ataxia Telangiectasia, and Loeys-Dietz Aortic Aneurysm Syndrome/Marfan Syndrome Type II (TGFBR2 and TGFBR1)•Used Polymerase Chain Reaction and Southern Blot•Worked on improving 619base pair deletion test, a multiplex PCR•Extracted DNA from blood, cultured fibroblast cells, prenatal samples and frozen tissue •Gel electrophoresis•Data entry•Edited DNA sequences using Sequencher software •Trained in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for Cystic Fibrosis