Opioids & Surgery•Help create patient education brochures on pain management following surgery for adults and children and teens. •Coincident with this, help design and implement a CME surgical skills course on regional anesthetic nerve blocks that surgical professionals may use intraoperatively to reduce both postoperative pain and patient opioid consumption.

•Developed accurate and fair-balanced CME for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists across multiple therapeutic areas and for use at live events and/or in digital platforms•Collaborated with team members to create and submit outcomes/progress reports to grantors• Formulated needs assessments for inclusion in grant submissions to pharmaceutical companies and/or associations•Worked with program managers to adhere to budgets and timelines and to communicate with and guide faculty

•Helped organize a cross-campus, interdepartmental postdoctoral organization at UIC which provided opportunities to discuss issues related to grant funding, career options, and professional networking•Semi-annual grant review of pilot biomedical research applications for $400,000 •Organized symposia, publicized CBC grant opportunities for junior and senior faculty members, and facilitated scientific exchange among CBC graduate students

•Created and developed medical-marketing slide sets by assimilating information from neuroscience and psychiatric publications, thought leaders, and advisory boards •Refined project management skills by adhering to client expectations, work order budgets, and project timelines•Prepared meeting content for key opinion leaders in neuroscience-related fields as well as marketing professionals•Worked with team members to organize logistics for a symposium with 200 attendees

•Taught both lecture and laboratory microbiology to nursing and culinary arts students •Developed curriculum and course-associated materials (worksheets, study guides, quizzes, exams)•Prepared lab sessions for students (ordered and stocked supplies, prepped materials for student use) •Evaluated student progress and assigned final grades for the course

•Formulated and conducted experiments examining the role of the second messenger, calcium-calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII), and how it affects both amphetamine-taking and reinstatement of amphetamine-seeking behaviors•Preliminary results showed that inhibiting CaMKII within the nucleus accumbens (a brain region that influences both motor activity as well as reinforcing behaviors) reduces the motivation to obtain a drug reinforcer•Trained graduate students and technicians to use laboratory equipment for their own experiements•Presented findings at departmental journal clubs and at society meetings