KIMBERLY N. OVIEDO

Acute and Emergency Care:

• Emergency Medicine and ED Observation |OHSU ED|Portland,OR
• Psychiatric Emergency Medicine |Unity Psychiatric Emergency Services|Portland,OR
• Pediatrics |Bay Clinic & Urgent Care Pediatrics|Coos Bay,OR
• Cardiovascular ICU – Elective |OHSU CVICU|Portland,OR

Inpatient

• Internal Medicine |OHSU General Medicine|Portland,OR
• Hospitalist Primary Care |Coquille Valley Hospital|Coos Bay,OR

Surgical

• General & Vascular Surgery |Asante Rogue Regional |Medford, OR
• OB/GYN |Hillsboro Women's Health Center|Hillsboro,OR
• Neurosurgery & Spine –Elective |Providence Health|Medford,OR

Outpatient

• Primary Care |Sky Lakes Medical Center|Klamath Falls,OR
• Family Medicine |Scappoose Health Center |Scappoose,OR

• Assessed visual acuity, vital signs, and chief complaints for accurate diagnostics. Reduced visit duration by performing OCTs and fundus angiography based on symptomatic presentation.
• Independently interpreted visual field tests, OCT images, and thoroughly documented clinical assessments and visit summaries.
• Assisted in eye injections and laser procedures for panretinal coagulation and focal laser therapy.

• Company Overview: Independent, volunteer-driven free clinic not reliant on federal funding, providing care to uninsured, undocumented, and low-income populations.
• Streamlined clinic workflow by serving as a Spanish medical interpreter and liaison during patient workups and provider consultations. Effectively presented chief complaints, medical history, and vitals to support accurate, timely clinical assessments.
• Assisted with a wide range of clinical procedures and diagnostics, including catheter placements, Pap smears, biopsies, orthopedic casting, venipuncture, and point-of-care testing (A1C, hemoglobin, serology, urinalysis), ensuring patient comfort and high-quality care delivery.

• Internship Overview: Competitive Undergraduate Research Program with a focus on cardiovascular investigation. Collaborated on multiple projects, including personal research.
• Led independent research on sex differences in DAMP molecule release post-myocardial infarction and contributed to manuscript development for a separate project examining the effects of Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS on post-MI wound healing through image analysis of LV tissue.
• Applied advanced wet-lab techniques, including immunoblotting, precise pipetting, tissue staining/imaging, and multi-parameter flow cytometry, to generate high-quality, reproducible data for translational cardiovascular research.
• Presented original research findings at MUSC’s Annual SURP Symposium, demonstrating effective scientific communication and data interpretation skills.