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California, United States

California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Worked on a team of healthcare providers including MDs, RNs, EMTs, and Paramedics to provide compassionate emergent and non-emergent first aid services to attendees at various eventsDetermined the nature and extent of illness through assessment of patient history and vital signs, accurately completed Patient Care Reports, and performed BLS level medical interventions to 8 – 12 patients per shift

Los Angeles, California, United States

Worked in the Orian Shirihai Lab to conduct novel research in translational medicine under the mentorship of a PHD Candidate. Specialized in sample preparation- namely viable PBMC isolation from salivary samplesCurrently learning how to analyze and conduct mitochondrial respiration readings - specifically using oxygen consumption rate from the Seahorse XF analyzer as an indicator of metabolic disease in previously frozen mitochondrial samples

Los Angeles, California, United States

Organized medical supply donations and completed supply requests at UCLA’s Health’s Michigan Operations Center 3x a QuarterConnected with undergraduate and graduate student organizations as the primary point of contact to coordinate and fulfill donation requests

Los Angeles, California, United States

Elected to the executive board to manage and organize club finances via creation of spreadsheets and budget lists of club materialsWrote grant proposals to obtain funding from various UCLA student activities funds to host a student-run Climate Action Night Assisted in organization and preparation of club meetings and training of new members

Los Angeles, California, United States

Competitively selected to consult head employees at Varian Medical Systems on the financial and environmental benefits of changing their medical device covers to bioplastic-based materialsResearched and presented a bill at Climate Action Night where student groups on and off campus were urged to change local climate policy by sending over 200 letters to California state senators and representatives.

Vallejo, California, United States

Curated 5 facilitator guides used by instructors at a local school to teach 100+ students about healthy eating and active livingLed instruction sessions teaching over 200 K-8 students on healthy eating habits and exerciseImprovised engaging activities for K-8 students to help them reflect on their school’s health environment

Westwood, California, United States

Led a novel research project on the safety & efficacy of arterial closure devices over a span of ten years that increased the scope of statistical interpretation of previous patient data across multiple clinicsCollected patient data for analysis by utilizing Excel and EMR software (eClinicalWorks, Vascunote)Shadowed a vascular surgeon during weekly procedures and collaborated with research team to set the groundwork for subsequent projects through the creation of procedure guides

Concord, California, United States

Collaborated with fellow baristas to create a productive, safe, and engaging work environment Learned important interpersonal and professional skills like communication, attire, and customer service

Pleasanton, California

Utilized artificial intelligence programs to help train a camera model to recognize objects, such as cars and pedestrians on the streetCommanded the Matplotlib Python library to plot data points.Learned and implemented clustering methods using SciKit Learn (KMeans, Affinity Propagation) onto sets of dataPlotted point clouds of sensor data using Cloud Compare and sorted these clouds with respect to their accuracy.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Bruin Sports Analytics, SAGE at UCLA, Community Health Collective

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Took 2 introductory Physics classes and a Scottish History course as part of the UCEAP Physics In Glasgow summer study abroad program

Undecided, Stem