Kunal K.

Research Assistant at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
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Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese Professional working proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • May 2022 - Present

      • Conducting scoping review on the application of practical wisdom (phrónēsis) to clinical medical practice by conducting thorough search of available literature • Analyzing how practical wisdom is conceptualized in clinical practice, how it is deployed in medical education and how it can function as a lens for understanding medical ethics • Conducting scoping review on the application of practical wisdom (phrónēsis) to clinical medical practice by conducting thorough search of available literature • Analyzing how practical wisdom is conceptualized in clinical practice, how it is deployed in medical education and how it can function as a lens for understanding medical ethics

    • Associate
      • Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • Director of Internal Development and Head of Tech Board
      • Jan 2019 - May 2021

      • Work to solicit articles from, conduct interviews with and coauthor papers with prominent researchers in health care and health policy • Work to solicit articles from, conduct interviews with and coauthor papers with prominent researchers in health care and health policy

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Intern
      • May 2019 - Sep 2019

      • Applied univariate and multivariate statistical models to assess the effectiveness of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program for lobectomy patients • Applied univariate and multivariate statistical models to assess the effectiveness of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program for lobectomy patients

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Intern
      • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

      • Analyzing how tumor adaptations to evade immune system surveillance vary with tumor immune-phenotype • Analyzing how tumor adaptations to evade immune system surveillance vary with tumor immune-phenotype

    • United States
    • Philanthropic Fundraising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Dean's List Research Coordinator
      • Sep 2018 - Jan 2019

      • Served as a humanities research coordinator for Dean's List, program where dozens of students from China visit Harvard to partake in a variety of academic activities as part of the humanities, natural sciences or social sciences track. • Helped design the assignments given to these students and the methods used to assess them. • Served as a humanities research coordinator for Dean's List, program where dozens of students from China visit Harvard to partake in a variety of academic activities as part of the humanities, natural sciences or social sciences track. • Helped design the assignments given to these students and the methods used to assess them.

    • Summer Research Intern
      • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

      • Developed applications to generate and test the robustness of time to event (survival) analysis predictions when applied to data with skewed distribution. • Using the statistical programming language R to gather, pre-process and curate published RNAseq and CRISPR datasets in cancer to create a data warehouse of validation datasets for in house studies. • Developed applications to generate and test the robustness of time to event (survival) analysis predictions when applied to data with skewed distribution. • Using the statistical programming language R to gather, pre-process and curate published RNAseq and CRISPR datasets in cancer to create a data warehouse of validation datasets for in house studies.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Researcher - Policymaking of the Chinese Communist Party
      • Jun 2016 - Apr 2017

      • Studied Chinese language, philosophy & culture independently with professor at local university • Researched how the Chinese Communist Party has engineered a resurgence of Confucianism as a means of maintaining its ascendancy over China • Worked on pending publication, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Reinvigoration of Confucianism in China,” in the Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History • Studied Chinese language, philosophy & culture independently with professor at local university • Researched how the Chinese Communist Party has engineered a resurgence of Confucianism as a means of maintaining its ascendancy over China • Worked on pending publication, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Reinvigoration of Confucianism in China,” in the Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Computer Science - HCI and Virtual Reality Researcher
      • Dec 2015 - May 2016

      • Helped conduct research dealing with virtual reality and Human Computer Interaction at Virtual Experiences Research Group (VERG), University of Florida. • Created and animated virtual characters using open source technologies such as Unity 3D and Maya, as well as crowd-sourced content and techniques. • Supported the Virtual Environments for Therapeutic Solutions (VETS) project, centered on creating virtual humans and environments to treat veterans recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Show less

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Biomedical Researcher
      • Sep 2014 - Oct 2015

      • Retrospectively analyzed post-transplant outcomes in heart transplant patients based on increased left ventricular cardiac mass revealed by cardiac MRI data. • Refined and analyzed a retrospective database (MS Access) involving 200 patients who underwent cardiac transplant. • ConductedStatistical analysis (Microsoft Excel) of transplants to determine post-transplant increase in vasculopathy and corresponding decrease in survival, based on left ventricular mass over time. • Retrospectively analyzed post-transplant outcomes in heart transplant patients based on increased left ventricular cardiac mass revealed by cardiac MRI data. • Refined and analyzed a retrospective database (MS Access) involving 200 patients who underwent cardiac transplant. • ConductedStatistical analysis (Microsoft Excel) of transplants to determine post-transplant increase in vasculopathy and corresponding decrease in survival, based on left ventricular mass over time.

Education

  • Harvard University
    Bachelor's degree, Philosophy
    2017 - 2021
  • The Bolles School
    Valedictorian (Class Rank: 1/191); GPA: 4.97/4.0
    2013 - 2017
  • Northwestern University
    Center for Talent Development (CTD), Algebra II/Trigonometry (Grade 9) and Precalculus (Grade 10)
    2013 - 2014

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