Experience

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  Notre Dame of Maryland University

  • Associate Professor

    • Oct 2023 - Present

    Associate professor of Behavioral Medicine in the Physician Assistant Program.

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  Balance Point Wellness, LLC

  • Psychiatric Physician Assistant

    • Sep 2018 - Present

    As an experienced psychiatric physician assistant I evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders. I work with a diverse population in an outpatient setting. Together with the patient we develop a treatment plan that best fits their needs by building a good rapport, medication management,...

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  Johns Hopkins University

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Research Program Assistant II

    • Aug 2014 - May 2016
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    As a research program assistant I was responsible for participant screening, recruitment, data collection, and data entry for ongoing research projects. I obtained proper written informed consent. I drive to participants homes and clinics to do visits in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvani...

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  NIH/NIA

  • Harbor Hospital Baltimore, Maryland

  • Certified Nursing Assistant (contract employee)

    • May 2013 - Oct 2013
    • Harbor Hospital Baltimore, Maryland

    My work duties as a certified nursing assistant were to collect and process specimens, perform venipuncture, obtain EKG and check vital signs. In addition to this, I also perform hearing, visual acuity, and 24 hour urine collection and measurements, obtain data through participant interviews and ...

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  Johns Hopkins University

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Lab Intern

    • May 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    As an intern in a RNA laboratory my primary goal was to perform Southern Blot tests to confirm integration sites and to determine clonality of the Avian Leukosis Virus within the chicken genome in hopes to create a model of cancer causing genes in the human genome. I maintained detailed, clear re...

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  National Institutes of Health

  • Bethesda, Maryland

  • Lab Trainee

    • Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
    • Bethesda, Maryland

    I was awarded this trainee position in which I was taught by world renowned researchers at the National Institutes of Health in the biomedical research field. I received intensive lecture and hands on instruction in DNA and plasmid purification and bacterial transformations. Among those procedure...

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  Johns Hopkins Hospital

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Certified Nursing Assistant

    • May 2008 - Jan 2012
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    My work duties while working as a Nursing Assistant/ Sitter were to distribute strict diet menus to patients, take vital signs, check weight and body measurements. I also obtained and processed up to date patient information and records and, maintained sanitary conditions of patient rooms. I also...