Experience

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ph.D. Research Fellow

  • Aug 2009 - Present

  - Developed a research project aimed at identifying mechanism(s) underlying the development of tolerance to morphine.- Developed a novel time course for the onset and decay of analgesic tolerance to chronic morphine treatment in guinea pigs via sub-cutaneous administration.- Assessed tolerance to morphine in both in-vivo (paw pressure analgesic test) and ex-vivo (Longitudinal muscle-myenteric plexus (LM/MP) preparation) models of tolerance.- Performed Western Blot protein analysis to identify changes in protein abundance between control and treated animals at each point of time course in the LM/MP and the brainstem.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - May 2015

  Prepared and presented lecture material to PA students on anti-viral drugs. Also led small group conferences on a range of topics including:Anti-inflammatory drugsAntifungal drugsAnti-malarial drugsAnti-anxiety drugsDrugs that affect the Autonomic Nervous SystemDrugs to treat Alzheimer'sDrugs to treat ADHDDrugs of Abuse