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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Contract with Goldbelt, Inc

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Suwanee, Georgia, United States

• Managed student learning environment and daily session activities over 120 students.• Administered the curriculum, developed learning plants, and documentation of progress.Managed a team of instructors to deliver instructions that align with teaching methodology.• Provide vision, strategic leadership, and development of Tutoring Center to ensure quality education.• Design and implement teaching protocols in collaboration with the Director, to manage programgoals and objectives.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Conducted routine surveillance interviews and outbreak investigation of food-borne, water borne, enteric and other infectious diseases. • Performed medical record review of reported and communicated with multiple healthcare departments to acquire patient information.• Completed follow-up on reportable diseases and entered data into the SENDSS (State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System).• Performed data cleaning and created a database for quantitative and qualitative analysis via SAS software and MS Excel.• Ran data quality assurance and prepared data summary reports for the Epidemiologists. • Prepared statistical data for evaluation and interpretation purposes to determine potential risks from exposure to potential diseases.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Conducted literature review and provided technical assistance to look at health policy trade-offs and their effects on health outcomes and health care costs. • Collaborated with the PI to prepare manuscripts, communicate study results and reconcile issues.• Assisted in the writing and editing of reports related to detailed analyses of Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, out-of-pocket spending, the challenges faced by beneficiaries with low income and people with long term care. • Created data tables and interpret the meaning of data analysis results for a large, multi-center study.

Suwanee, Georgia, United States

• Facilitated daily administrative functions, including customer service, patient scheduling, monitored unpaid claims, initiated traces, resubmitted claims as necessary and closed encounters using ICD 9 and CPT coding.• Contacted and worked with all managed care, commercial, private, and federal insurances for processing and verifying claims.

Downers Grove, Illinois, United States

Project 1: Determine the effect that Prdm16 loss has on mandible formation, and consequently, palate formation.• Conducted wet-lab and molecular biology scientific research, using methods including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Western blot test, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).• Performed skeletal preparation and staining to visualize effect of Prdm16 loss.• Contributed in running bioassays and laboratory bench studies, writing scientific reports, and maintaining research lab operations and equipment.Project 2: Determine how exercise can prevent obesity and metabolic conditions and determine modes and risk of transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in outpatient facility. • Contributed in research support by performing comparative analyses of experimental data.• Maintained weight and food intake record and activity protocol for experimental mice.• Performed extraction of DNA using mini-bead beater and conducted quantitative PCR on bacterial phyla of interest and each target was verified by standard PCR followed by gel electrophoresis and visualization of bands consistent with the appropriate size.

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Assisted research professor in cell biology department with laboratory research on discovering metabolic pathways of Trypanosoma cruzi and Toxoplasma gondii.• Provided research support by preparing chemical solutions, reagents, and specimens for microscopic examination.• Consolidated data and performed comparative analyses from former experimental data.• Developed and maintained standard operation procedures (SOP) for the laboratory.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Epidemiology, 3.87/4.0

Master Thesis; Conversion and Reversion of TST and QFT among Persons Experiencing Homelessness and examining the risk factors associated.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, General, 3.64/4.0

Activities and Societies: MEDLIFE, American Redcross