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RESEARCH & EXTRACURRICULAR
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Junhao Lu

New York City,NY

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Clinical Specialist

Medtronic, Shanghai
09.2023 - 08.2024
  • Specialized in pacemaker products, providing clinical support to healthcare professionals, including guideline interpretation, patient care manuals, and hands-on technical support.
  • Acted as the bridge between the clinical and engineering side; listening to physicians to gather feedback on how to improve products and relayed that information to engineers.
  • Led product demonstrations and monthly training sessions for healthcare teams, ensuring proficiency in pacemaker technologies.

Medical Advisor

Shanghai Synyi Medical Science, Shanghai
08.2022 - 08.2023
  • Applied Natural Language Processing and machine learning to develop specialized disease databases, creating Clinical Decision Support Systems in multiple hospitals, enhancing clinical decision-making.
  • Communicated with hospital administrators to hear their feedback on how the support system could increase its accuracy and include more patients and data sets and constantly improve it. Worked with the programmers to translate the feedback.

Medical Consultant

Medsci Consulting, Shanghai
09.2020 - 08.2022
  • Advised pharmaceutical clients and conducted medical editing, ensuring clinicians received accurate, up-to-date treatment information, enhancing clinical decision-making and patient care.
  • Collected information on client initiatives from clinical trials and published papers and developed slides to educate the patients and physicians about the medicines available from specific companies.

Clerkship

Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai
07.2018 - 09.2020
  • Completed clerkship at Huashan Hospital, the national neurological disease center.

Education

MPH - Health Policy And Management

Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
New York, NY
05.2026

M.D. -

Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College
Shanghai, China
09.2020

Skills

  • ACLS certification, BLS certification
  • Database management with Python and SQL
  • Database analysis using stata and Redcap

RESEARCH & EXTRACURRICULAR

Abstracts & Presentations

Nathania N, Lu J, et al. Decoding the treatment blueprint: A network meta-analysis of regimens in adult drug-sensitive tuberculous meningitis. XXVII World Congress of Neurology (WCN 2025), Seoul, South Korea, October 12–15, 2025. Accepted for Oral Presentation.


Publications

Chen H*, Rodriguez K, Ellis RJ, Chow FC, Lu J, Shobha S, Fichtenbaum CJ, Tashima KT, Letendre SL, Schifitto G. Omitting nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors does not affect cognitive performance: Results of AIDS Clinical Trials Group A5241 (OPTIONS). Submitted to Journal of NeuroVirology, 2025.


Projects

  • Global TBM Survey Project, Columbia University – Designed and piloted a multi-country survey on TB meningitis care; analyzed diagnostic and supportive care resource gaps.
  • PAHO Neuroinfectious Disease Systematic Review – Contributed to evidence synthesis on infectious neurologic diseases to guide regional policy.


Research Experiences

Research Assistant, The Neurological Institute of New York, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

From Jan 2025

  • Supported global TB meningitis research through survey design, pilot testing, and resource mapping to inform clinical guidelines.
  • Extracted and standardized clinical data from EPIC EHRs and contributed to PAHO-funded neuroinfectious disease projects and systematic reviews.
  • Presented findings in weekly research and Neuro-ICU case discussions with multidisciplinary teams.


Research Assistant, Shanghai Jiaotong University Mental Health Center

Jan 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Led successful patient recruitment for a clinical study on neuropsyliis biomarkers, ensuring diverse and relevant participation, which was key to the study’s validity.
  • Authored research protocols, contributed to publications, and collaborated with the team to resolve challenges and maintain study integrity.


Research Assistant, Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital Neurology Department

Sept 2017 – Sept 2018

  • Collected a comprehensive dataset of EEG recordings, ensuring diverse coverage of neurological conditions.
  • Applied machine learning algorithms with technical team to analyze EEG data, improving the detection accuracy of neurological disorders and contributing to advancements in epilepsy diagnosis.

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Clinical Specialist

Medtronic, Shanghai
09.2023 - 08.2024

Medical Advisor

Shanghai Synyi Medical Science, Shanghai
08.2022 - 08.2023

Medical Consultant

Medsci Consulting, Shanghai
09.2020 - 08.2022

Clerkship

Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai
07.2018 - 09.2020

MPH - Health Policy And Management

Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

M.D. -

Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College

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