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Commercial and corporate strategy for the life sciences industry.

Engagement manager at Promidian Consulting working with stakeholders to address a wide variety of questions within the life sciences industry across all stages of the product life cycle.

Research focuses on characterizing pain processing in the spinal cord in healthy participants and chronic pain patients using functional MRI (fMRI). This study aims to confirm the spinal mechanisms which underlie the symptoms that patients experience, and better direct treatments to alleviate their suffering.Lead the development of the first pathway to allow group statistical analysis of MRI data in the human spinal cord.Lead a collaborative effort to use a novel MRI scan to look at anatomical changes in the brains of chronic pain patients. This study aims to characterize with greater precision the neural changes which occur in the brains of chronic pain patients and how these changes lead to the symptoms displayed in these individuals.Developed a strategic approach to characterize the individual differences in endogenous analgesia with the aim of better understanding how these systems malfunction in chronic pain patients.Responsible for leading the research on spinal cord neuroscience in chronic pain within the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab. Manage two research assistants and up to three undergraduate students.

Learned the process of medical device design. Cultivated the ability to develop R&D, clinical strategic plans and understand different approaches for attracting venture funding or licensing partnerships. Learned the processes of design and prototyping, intellectual property assessment, assessing clinical and market potential, patent strategy, regulatory strategy, stakeholder and market research, risk assessment, financial modelling, business and operation planning.

Selected to teach a special interest class on "Exploring the brain in pain." Developed course curriculum, taught the class to 15 Stanford sophomores, and evaluated student performance.

Guided 30-40 undergraduate students through pharmacology wet lab sessions. Taught smaller, problem based learning tutorials to 8-12 undergraduate students.

Primary research focus was the anatomical and functional reorganization of the human brain in patients with chronic neuropathic pain following spinal chord injury. Recruited patients, collected all psychological questionnaires and MRI scans.