Sixian (Zoey) Chen

• Comforted patients and families in emergency room and brought water, food or other comfort items for support.
• Oversaw items in patient rooms and replenished low supplies.
• Promoting patients-doctors communication, delivering messages when necessary.
• Relieving patients' nervousness by introducing how does the hospital system works, guide them when necessary.

• Assisted faculty members with research assignments on projects related with crystal orientation/twisted crystal.
• Recorded data and maintained source documentation following good documentation practices.
• Collaborated with others in team-based environment to identify key findings from microscopic, XRD, AFM and other quantitative data analysis.

• Cleaned and sanitized cages and living areas f dogs and cats to promote health and wellbeing.
• Provided companionship and comfort to animals in need of extra love and attention.
• Kept animals healthy and socialized by providing regular exercises and walks.

Chunking C. elegans from a stock plate into fresh agar plate. Identify and pick hermaphrodite C. elegans into fresh agar plate. Bleaching worms and diluting worms to prepare for imaging procedure. Imaging C. elegans from different metal environments every week for their length measurement.

• After graduating from IB high school I wanted to help other IB students who are struggle with biology or chemistry. One high school sophomore student contacted me and I started to tutor her since then.
• I prepared powerpoint for each lesson and lead her through several sample questions at end of class.
• Her biology final for sophomore year was top of class as indirect evaluation of my teaching efficiency.

• I worked under dermatology department, mostly about cosmetic dermatology.
• I shadowed doctors when they use lasers or other technique to evanish verruca acuminata, moles or other dermatological defects on patients' body.
• I shadowed several minor surgeries about removing complex nevus.
• After conducting lasers, patients' face will be hot and needs ice compress. I will find them ice towel and pacify their anxious mood if they are getting too nervous.

• I read numerous literatures about using CRISPR/Cas 9 technique to treat lung cancer.
• I summarized these contents and wrote 3700+ literature review including pathology of lung cancer, genes related with lung cancer, why traditional treatment like chemotherapy needs to be improved and how does CRISPR technique works in treating lung cancer.

• I learned basic OR knowledge like how many doctors at least surgery needs to include and what are their roles. I also learned how to wear surgical gown and sterilized policy in OR.
• I wrote preoperative and postoperative report for splenectomy.
• I got to know about basic suture skill and practiced on skin model.
• I was taught with several body organ systems including immune system, cardiovascular system, urinary system and so on.