Wadi Eghterafi Email & Phone Number

• Employ validation, active listening, and reflection to support texter in crisis (e.g. suicidal thoughts) to vent and create safety plans.

• Led a project to create and assess an AI that detected cancerous lung nodules.
• Pioneered an imaging algorithm that diagnosed COVID-19 X-ray scans, resulting in Rush’s Research Finalist Award
• Collaborated with physicists and physicians to port our AI to a smartphone for accessibility.

• Lead and organized a research team to conduct and submit a project to the International Street Medicine Symposium XVIIregarding the intersectionality of gender, race, and homelessness.
• Provided medical and emotional support to Chicagoans experiencing homelessness as a part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Communicated with local organizations to collaborate in providing high-quality healthcare to people experiencing homelessness

• As president, I organized programming and presented at meetings for professional relationship building, resumé building, and our personal statement workshop.
• As director of service, I mentored Middle Eastern American undergraduate students, organized fundraisers, and planned service projects for local community centers and hospitals.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Conducted research on homeless encampments and poverty, earning our team the UCLA Dean Support Award
• Launched one of the first community-organized opioid reversal kit networks in Westwood with four chapters at UCI, UCD, USC, and UCLA.
• Established a weekly outreach team to provide basic care for the vulnerable in collaboration with Los Angeles County.

• Investigated peer learning and the effects of different feedback on learning resulting in the following publication in the Online Learning Journal: Eghterafi, Wadi, et al. "Effect of Feedback with Video-Based Peer.

• Performed venipunctures for patients experiencing homelessness.
• Organized volunteers in the specimen laboratory to process and send samples to our providers for further analysis.

• Coordinated a clinical research project with Dr. Sid Danesh to explore tobacco use and sebaceous cyst formation.
• Trained students in the clinical aspects of service and patient care.
• Prepared surgical equipment, stitches, and laser equipment for cystic excision and other procedures.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Diffused psychological and behavioral emergencies in coordination with police officers and social workers.
• Efficiently managed a wide range of emergency cases, ranging from behavioral emergencies to wound care.
• Effectively delivered patient reports to the LA City Fire, LAPD, the Department of Mental Health, and the Sheriff's Office.

Brea

• Prepared exhibits for trial and virtualized the company office.
• Honed my communication skills by directing and answering questions from clients.
• Demonstrated organization by creating a system to categorize cases.

Long Beach

• Explored the efficacy of a particle sensor, fast-tracking contamination assessment of objects pre-space flight.
• Constructed and presented a research poster communicating my findings to the scientific Boeing community.

• Generated case studies on ABC flow and Molar systems regarding integrating computer models into chaotic theory for projectiles.
• Spearheaded an extension and explanation of the Magnus Effect expressed through differential equations modeling advanced projectile motion.