Rachel DeSanto

Clinical Research Coordinator at Accellacare
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(386) 825-5501
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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, US

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Experience

    • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Clinical Research Coordinator
      • Nov 2022 - Present

      • Coordinates multiple studies simultaneously with various indications, study plans and schedules. Oversees and performs various studies procedures and ensuring quality data is captured according to protocol. • Identifies potential research subjects using multiple recruitment strategies. Developed new strategies to reach target populations.• Directs assistant coordinators in execution of study activities in accordance with protocol and study timelines. • Managing scheduling patient visits with PI’s following protocol time requirements.• Plans and coordinates multiple team meetings around various site personal and PI schedules. • Communicates study/ recruitment progress with team members and sponsors and adjust strategies according to feedback.• Ensures sponsor communications are shared in a timely manner with PI and other site staff. Maintains communication within study team to ensure consistent team efforts while executing protocol activities. • Assisted in the training of new site staff on study specific activities. • Ensures all process and procedures follow companies SOP’s. Monitors study activities to adhere to and achieve all protocol requirements. • Apart of a team that has been awarded a top enrolling site for multiple studies. • Collaborates with the PI to determine patient eligibility and AE attributes, including relatedness to the study. Show less

    • Clinical Research Coordinator Assistant
      • Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

      • Assisted in the recruitment, organization, and conduction of a 300+ participant vaccination study.• Apart of a team that was awarded a top enrolling site for a specific study.• Prepares for and provides support to lead coordinators for study monitor visits.

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Laboratory Assistant
      • Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

      • Developed effective processes to reduce internal recording and collection errors: Created a system to communicate in a timely manner with other draw sites, avoiding re-draws, material waste, over time, and customer dissatisfaction. Created a prioritization system for test problems, guaranteeing that they are not overlooked, decreasing the number of recalls the laboratory had to make. • Trained 5 new employees that did not have previous experience, helping them to become efficient and successful professionals. • Empathetic and good listener, make sure clients are comfortable during procedures, engaging in lighthearted conversations, and calmly and professionally responding to any questions they might have, always maintaining the highest confidentiality. Show less

    • Argentina
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Medical Records Remediation Specialist HIM
      • May 2019 - Mar 2020

      • Accurately organized and digitized patients' records, ensuring that documentation was labeled and categorized properly within the EMR. • Monitored, researched, and reprocessed improper medical record numbers. When duplicated medical records were found, they were then merged to avoid rework and record-keeping errors. • Collaborated in weekly (sometimes daily) meetings with team members for project quality, schedule planning, and management of team problems, guaranteeing that deadlines were met. Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Teachers Laboratory Assistant
      • Aug 2016 - May 2018

      • Guided students through the laboratory procedures, observing experiments to make sure that safety guidelines were correctly followed. • Prepared the laboratory for each class, organizing equipment, solutions, and samples. Kept area well-maintained and followed cleaning protocols. • Graded weekly student activities and reports, recording them in the system. Met weekly with the Professor to review upcoming activities and plans. Developed a rubric for grading, making the processes more efficient. • Collaborated on the development of protocols for the different experiments, setting up supplies and instruments for the experiments and class instructions. Also, evaluated the effectiveness of experiments with the Professor and adjusted specific experiments to better display the desired learning concepts and goals. Show less

    • Research Assistant
      • Aug 2015 - May 2018

      • Conducted extensive literature search, gathering data to prepare hypothesis, next step in experiments, and knowledge base. Assisted in the development of protocols with Principal Investigators. • Collaborated with scientists from different specialties in multidisciplinary projects, incorporating knowledge from other sources, demonstrating great ability to adapt communication and make it understandable by people of other fields. • Independently performed experiments, recorded and compiled data, and presented at project review meetings. Successfully grew the desired protease in bacterial cell line confirmed with activity assay. Achieved significant growth of crystals of Dihydrolipolyllysine-Residue Succsinyltransferase component of 2-Oxoglutarate Dehydrogenase complex (Suc-B) and optimized screens for x-ray crystallography. Laid the groundwork for 2 separate research projects to branch off the study of various properties of the HAT protease. Show less

    • President Beta Eta Chapter
      • Aug 2015 - May 2018

      • Planned the "launch week" with the board to recruit new members, tripling the number of participants by communicating the club vision and promoting projects in a large picnic on campus. •Directed 3 different research communication events and 2 science conferences. All members were empowered to make a presentation about their studies at the end of the semester. • Maintained strong communication, emphasizing the vision and goals of the organization and engaging the team to collaborate with suggestions and ideas, consistently demonstrating adaptability, respect, empathy, and objectivity. • Successfully raised funds to cover costs of all members for many club events like the Evangel University Symposium of Research, the American Chemistry Society Mid-West Regional Meeting, and the National Conference of Sigma Zeta National Science and Mathematics Honor Society. Show less

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Intelligence Intern
      • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

      • Supported the upgrade of UCLA's hospital systems to the newest EPIC EMR version, running reports and charts in the new and old systems, looking for data discrepancies, and validating information output. • Participated in a team effort to research predictive analytic applications and improvements to be implemented in the near future, benchmarking best practices of the top 10 hospitals in the USA. • Collaborated on the remodeling of the internship program so future students in the program would have more opportunities to learn about the business intelligence processes and a holistic scope of the hospital system behind the scenes. Show less

Education

  • Evangel University
    Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Biology/Biological Sciences, General
    2014 - 2018
  • Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks
    Biology/Biological Sciences, General
    2013 - 2014

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