Monitor vital signs and report changes to nursing staff, ensuring timely medical interventions when necessary.
Assist nurses with essential tasks, streamlining workflow and increasing efficiency in the healthcare setting.
Collect and document patient information to aid in accurate medical record keeping.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans that addressed each patient''s unique needs.
Perform blood draws, EKGs, and other diagnostic tests accurately and efficiently for prompt analysis by healthcare professionals.
Scientist II
Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories
09.2022 - Current
Perform routine testing for a major biopharmaceutical client, including competitive ELISAs, host cell protein (HCP) ELISAs, Protein A (ProA) assays, cell-based potency assays, and quantitative PCR (qPCR).
Conduct feasibility studies to support assay development, method transfer, and validation for client-sponsored projects.
Maintain and passage mammalian cell lines for use in routine testing.
Analyze assay data using SoftMax Pro and Applied Biosystems 7500 qPCR Software.
Qualify, prepare, and track critical reagents and buffers for routine testing.
Traumatic Brain Injury Internship
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
05.2019 - 07.2019
Identified and compared brain tissue slides from the frontal cortex of rodents.
Prepared microscopic slides of tissue for research/diagnostic purposes, including fixation, embedding, microtomy, and slide mounting.
Successfully completed immunohistochemistry on blast-induced traumatic brain injury.
Extracted brain tissue samples from rats with and without blast-induced traumatic brain injury.
Measured, identified, dissected qualitative data from brain tissue slides indicating reactive astrocytes in the brain of rodents.
Studied inflammatory response after blast-induced traumatic brain injury.