Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Volunteer
Timeline
ResearchAssistant
Yutong Zhao

Yutong Zhao

Seattle,WA

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Ophthalmology Scribe

Scribe America
Seattle, WA, WA
01.2022 - Current
  • Assist an ophthalmologist with documenting 25-30 clinical visits throughout the day in fast-paced, stressful hospital environments.
  • Documents complete information about patient history, medication lists, examinations, treatment plans, imaging results, and assessments.
  • Assist with bridging patient-provider communication by providing Mandarin interpretation.

Research Assistant

VA Pudget Sound
Seattle, WA, WA
09.2021 - Current
  • Worked both independently and collaboratively in goal-oriented laboratory environments.
  • Performed RNA sequencing data analysis by using C++ and R language to perform adapter trimming, quality check, mapping to genome, and annotations.
  • Use Bioconductor packages in R to do PCA analysis, data normalization, filtering, and visualizations.
  • Attended seminars and symposiums to improve overall knowledge and understanding.
  • Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.

Student Assistant

UW Vascular Imaging Lab
03.2019 - 03.2020
  • Uses RedCap for data input
  • Responsible for maintaining participant’s case file
  • Attend meetings, MRI scans
  • Contact meeting invitees from different departments, coordinate meeting times, room reservations, technological set-ups
  • Assisted with travel reimbursements by using Purchase Path, patient recruitments, etc.

Author

Grey Matters Journal
09.2019 - 12.2019
  • Strong communication and writing skills, Initiated a research on the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS)
  • Synthesized ideas from at least 5 research papers, crafted and published a journal article on Grey Matters Journal Issue 18
  • Collaborated with a group of peer editors, graduate student editors, administrators, artists in weekly meetings.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
09.2021

Skills

  • Literature Review
  • RNA Sequencing data analysis
  • RNA Sequencing data plotting
  • Clerical Support

Accomplishments

Awarded Exemplary Scholar June 2021

Dean’s List Letter Fall 18 – Fall 20, Spring 20, Winter 21

Publication: “AIWS: Not Just an Illusion”, Grey Matters Journal April 2020

Volunteer

Department Coordinator, Swedish Hospital WA, Seattle

  • Supervise Health Scholars on Gynecology floor, duties include creating calendars, tracking hours completed, and training new scholars that join the floor every 3 months.
  • Provide a point of contact between the Health Scholars program and the floor

Cope Health Scholar, March 2021 to Current

  • Successfully achieved within the top 5% in intense training on US healthcare system and clinical practices, and 280+ hours of hands–on patient care training
  • Establish effective rapport with patients of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds through assisting in patient care duties. For example, taking vitals, elevating patients' requests and observations to staff, and assisting nurses with clinical tasks (bathing, transferring from bed to gurney, ambulating, feeding, changing occupied or unoccupied beds, discharging) under the supervision of a licensed staff member and interacting professionally using AIDET and SKAHI methods
  • Experience in the specialty of Rehab, Gynecology, General Surgery, Nephrology, Labor and Delivery

Timeline

Ophthalmology Scribe

Scribe America
01.2022 - Current

Research Assistant

VA Pudget Sound
09.2021 - Current

Author

Grey Matters Journal
09.2019 - 12.2019

Student Assistant

UW Vascular Imaging Lab
03.2019 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Washington
Yutong Zhao