Educate and train site and study staff in conduct and management of sponsored studies, including assurance to regulatory and ICH/ GCP compliance. Collected, reviewed, organized clinical trial documents and data to ensure consistency across sites nationally and internationally while maintaining local, regional, and national regulations and compliance. I specialize in study start up, meaning I get trials operational at individual hospitals or clinics. Start-up is a fast paced, deadline driven area requiring impeccable organization, communication, and attention to detail.

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support. One of my primary responsibilities was the organization, update, management, expansion, and preparation 900+ patient Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) database over 18 months as it moved from Excel to an online platform refined for long term outcome research. I also consented, handled regulatory affairs, and collected data for 2 investigator initiated prospective studies. One focused on biomarkers associated with stroke in LVADs, the other, inflammation and clotting after cardiac surgery. I worked on 15+ retrospective projects by collecting data, running statistics, and editing conference submissions,. This provided me the opportunity to partially author 1 publication and 5 abstract submissions. Projects focused on LVAD clinical outcomes, robotic and open cardiac surgery, and heart transplantation.

As a graduate research assistant, I worked with the Director of Public Health and Research at UIWSOM as well as medical students to investigate the mental health of medical students in relation to physiological and behavioral health outcomes. I was involved in designing the project, receiving IRB approval, applying for funding, and beginning data collection. This is a 10 year project that beginning this year, and we hope to submit for publication by the end of 2019.

I worked full-time (10 hour shifts, 14 per month) for Proscribe LLC in the emergency department at Driscol Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. This role required me to effectively communicate with emergency providers the status of their patients in a high-stress environment while recording patient history, physical exam findings, test results, procedures performed, consults, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescriptions, discharge, and follow-up information into Epic (an electronic medical record system). I accompanied the physician or nurse practitioner during more than 500 patient encounters and trained approximately 12 new hires.

As a part of the undergraduate research program at VMI, I was competitively selected to receive a $3,000 research grant. Under the guidance of a professor, I conducted a research project to determine if physical exertion influenced self-control. This project required me to perform all aspects of the research process including IRB approval, participant recruitment, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.

I had the privilege to be selected for the Shepard Poverty Internship between my Sophomore and Junior year of college. This program places interns in poverty focused non-profits nationally. I was placed at Code/Interactive, a small, New York City-based non-profit. I primarily mentored and professionally developed 16 high school students as they engaged in challenging technology internships. As a result, I gained extensive experience working with non-profits, and further developed my leadership, communication, and teaching skills, particularly when working with teenagers.

I was in charge of the well being of 5 to 10 children ranging in age from 6 to 15 for 1 to 2 weeks. I also taught a Bible study, an outdoor appreciation class, and a wilderness survival class.

I performed concrete and soil testing on samples from construction sites in the Corpus Christi and an Antonio areas. These results were then sent to the professional engineers for further analysis. An additional responsibility was a drill hand on an environmental drilling truck used to take soil samples.