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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Managing clinical projects investigating brown adipose tissue activity in growing children with or without obesity and its relationship with modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors

Canada

Provided services (freelance basis) of language editing, content review, reviewing, and medical writing

Auckland, New Zealand

• Efficiently led a clinical study managing cross-functional objectives from patient recruitment to data collection and report writing
• Developed training videos and study materials for clinical visits and measurement of abdominal depots using imaging software
• Collaboratively worked with 8 graduate students on clinical studies resulting in 21 collaborative research papers.
• In collaboration with supervisor, developed study-related documentation including informed consent forms, questionnaires
• Screened patients for eligibility, obtained informed consent, in-patient medical monitoring, clinical measurements, and analyzed blood samples

Auckland, New Zealand

• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and investigated the impact of abdominal adiposity and intra-pancreatic fat using complex statistical models as evidenced by 11 first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Detail-oriented and meticulous researcher with an ability to manage big datasets as evidenced by systematic reviewing of a given topic, extraction of data, and meta-analysis.
• Mentored and trained 2 PhD students, 2 masters, 3 medical students for patient recruitment, data analysis, laboratory techniques, post-processing of magnetic resonance images, and manuscript writing.
• Problem solving skills with expertise in protocol optimization (image analysis and immunoassays) resulting in <10% inter-rater / inter-assay variability for all measurements.

Singapore

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment of a clinical research organization with experience in ligand binding assays, toxicokinetic and pharmacokinetic ELISAs using non-human primate plasma/serum samples.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Demonstrated quick learning of laboratory techniques and worked independently on two research projects.
• Gained good understanding of physiological systems and their complex inter-play by investigating how epithelia responds to exogenously induced oxidative stress at gene, cellular and whole organismal level using.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Sciences, General

Master Of Research (Mres), Biomedical Science, 19.7/22

Bachelors (Hons), Biomedical Sciences, Medical Biochemistry