Resident Physician

Medical Student

Senior Research Technologist

Conducted a genomic discovery project aiming to find casual genes that contribute to coronary artery disease. Performed CRISPRi design, plasmid cloning, cell culturing, lentiviral production and transduction, bacterial transformation and nucleic acid extraction, single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, gel electrophoresis, and inventory management.

Senior Research Technologist

I worked in the COVID-PCR clinical laboratory at LabCorp’s Research Triangle Park location in Durham, North Carolina, where I handled patient COVID-19 specimens daily. My responsibilities included aliquoting, RNA extraction and amplification, and real-time PCR testing. Additionally, I created and presented onboarding materials outlining laboratory techniques and standards of practice.

Research Manager

Working as a manager of outcomes research data using The Surgical Outcomes System, I collected and analyzed patient outcomes and procedures to address the demands of evidence-based medicine. The primary purpose of this position was to monitor and evaluate the outcomes of various standard of care orthopaedic and sports medicine medical procedures, patient education, and cost effectiveness of treatment procedures and products. During clinical visits regarding surgical intervention, I enrolled patients willing to participate in this research while discussing their preoperative state through patient-reported questionnaires and clinician reported objective measures.

Research Assistant

During my junior year I worked in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences at NC State. I was positioned alongside a graduate student studying Salmonella. The mutated cultures we analyzed targeted genes that transcribed specific proteins pertaining to osmoprotectant secretion and translation. These proteins allow bacteria populations to survive on low-moisture food matrices by changing the cytoplasmic ion concentrations and preventing trans-membrane water loss. My responsibilities during this assistantship included serial dilutions of bacterial colonies, primer design of targeted genes, secretory and osmoregulatory proteins, and conducting PCR amplification.