Experience

Treatment Advocacy Center

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Research

  • May 2017 - Present

  Serious mental illness is the driving force behind a host of issues that profoundly affect individuals living with psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, their families and society.Yet evidence about the role of severe mental illness is systematically under-collected, overlooked or ignored by government agencies and other organizations.What is the role of mental illness in law enforcement fatalities?How many of the homeless suffer from serious psychiatric diseases?What is the impact of eliminating psychiatric beds?How do jails and prisons meet the treatment needs of mentally ill inmates?These are among the many questions that official data barely address, if at all.The Treatment Advocacy Center in 2015 established the Office of Research & Public Affairs (ORPA) as an educational program to answer questions like these by producing, publishing and/or promoting evidence-based research that examines neglected topics surrounding the most severe mental illness.If you have heard that people with mental illness are 10 times more likely to be in jail than a hospital or 16 times more likely to be killed in a law enforcement encounter, you have seen our work. Show less

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2016 - Apr 2017



Unity Health Care

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Quality Improvement Scholar

  • May 2016 - May 2017



Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

  Manuscript Preparation: Experimental design, writing, and editing, statistical analysis Animal Model Research: Xenograft and genetic mouse models, DNA isolation of tissue Cell Biology: In-vitro cancer cell assays, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Western Blot Nucleic Acid Chemistry: DNA adduct, DNA hydrolysis and adduct purification, LC/MS/MS Manuscript Preparation: Experimental design, writing, and editing, statistical analysis Animal Model Research: Xenograft and genetic mouse models, DNA isolation of tissue Cell Biology: In-vitro cancer cell assays, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Western Blot Nucleic Acid Chemistry: DNA adduct, DNA hydrolysis and adduct purification, LC/MS/MS



McGill University Department of Behavioral Neuroscience

• Montreal, Canada Area

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

  Dr. Karim Nader Neuroscience Laboratory Manuscript Preparation: Past and current literature review, scientific writing, statistical analysis Animal model research: Stereotaxic brain surgery, handling, infusions, testing, perfusions, brain dissection, cryostat slicing Biology/Biochemistry: Immunohistochemistry analysis, c-Fos staining Seminars:Literature review journal club, collaborative meetings between researchers on data and experimental paradigms Dr. Karim Nader Neuroscience Laboratory Manuscript Preparation: Past and current literature review, scientific writing, statistical analysis Animal model research: Stereotaxic brain surgery, handling, infusions, testing, perfusions, brain dissection, cryostat slicing Biology/Biochemistry: Immunohistochemistry analysis, c-Fos staining Seminars:Literature review journal club, collaborative meetings between researchers on data and experimental paradigms



University of Vermont College of Medicine

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Dr. Victor May Neurobiology Laboratory Animal model research: Stereotaxic brain surgery, animal handling, infusions, testing, perfusions, brain dissection, cryostat Biology/Biochemistry: Immunohistochemistry, PCR, protein extraction, electrophysiology Seminars: Literature review journal club, instruct underprivileged high-school neuroscience information series Dr. Victor May Neurobiology Laboratory Animal model research: Stereotaxic brain surgery, animal handling, infusions, testing, perfusions, brain dissection, cryostat Biology/Biochemistry: Immunohistochemistry, PCR, protein extraction, electrophysiology Seminars: Literature review journal club, instruct underprivileged high-school neuroscience information series