OBJECTIVE
Staff Physician to work in a corporate onsite health and wellness clinic in Mountain View, CA.
EDUCATION
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN M.D. Aug 2003-May 2007
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana PharmD. Aug 1996-May 2001
POST-MEDICAL SCHOOL TRAINING
-Large Academic Medical Center CA Anesthesia resident 2009-Feb 2012
Primary clinical duty is a clinical pharmacologist, administering a wide variety of medications for general and regional anesthesia combined with cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, hematologic, GI, and pain medications for intraoperative/perioperative management of patients. With my previous surgical training (see below for details), I am dextrous in procedures including placement of central venous catheters (especially subclavian) with/without ultrasound guidance, pulmonary artery catheters, chest tube thoracostomies, and now neuraxial anesthesia. This is in addition to fundamental requisite skills I have acquired as an anesthesiologist-in-training: obtaining thorough histories and physical examinations, establishing and maintaining an airway, advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), conscious sedation all the way to inducing and maintaining general anesthesia from minor to significant surgical procedures, ordering and interpreting pertinent labs, radiographic studies, consulting specialty services, supervising nurses, medical students/interns/residents.
Patient population: healthy to critically ill (ICU) to emergency or trauma to moribund; neonate, infant, toddler, teen, adult, pregnant, geriatric
I mentor and supervise medical students and junior residents. My interests are in trauma/critical care, specifically shock and resuscitation, pediatric and regional anesthesia.
-Academic Teaching hospital CA Surgery resident R2 2008
In addition to assisting in open and minimally invasive surgeries, I was the senior trauma resident on call and led a multidisciplinary team of providers in the evaluation of complex traumas, triaging patients to operative versus nonoperative management. I supervised the performance of interns including histories and physicals, daily progress and procedure notes, helped teach common skills appropriate to their level of training, formulate therapeutic plans, formally present patient cases at weekly Grand Round and morbidity/mortality (M&M) conferences, and led surgery board review series. My clinical experience is in general and colorectal surgery, critical care, surgical oncology, pediatric, vascular and trauma subspecialties.
-Large Academic Medical Center CA Surgery intern R1 June 2007-08
Management of surgical patients pre- and post-operatively, cross-cover up to 100 patients on different surgical subspecialty services, obtain histories/physical examinations (H&Ps) and educate and consent patients for OR, maintain and organize team lists, present cases to senior residents and attendings, provide surgical consultations to medicine teams, ER, and other surgical services, perform bedside procedures (suturing lacerations, I&D, escharotomy, tube thoracostomy, debridement of wounds, digital nerve blocks, central line placement), manage critical care patients (ventilators, drips, chest tubes), review both static and dynamic radiologic studies (x-rays, CTs, barium esophagograms, etc), weekly conferences, didactics, and or skills sessions, assist in open and laparoscopic surgeries. Clinical experience in general surgery, vascular, pediatric, plastic and reconstructive surgery, hand, liver transplant/ICU, neurosurgery, trauma, cardiothoracic, urology, and thoracic surgery.
EMPLOYMENT
Hospital CA 2009
I worked as the infectious disease pharmacist and clinical educator and served on a multidisciplinary team to establish and meet the criteria for the National Patient Safety Goal 7 involving Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs). I helped streamline and establish guidelines for the appropriate use of antibiotics and served as the dedicated clinical instructor for clinical pharmacists, residents, and students.
Hospital San Francisco, CA 2008-09
As a pharmacist, I reviewed and entered electronic medication orders for pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients, supervised pharmacy residents, interns/externs, and technicians, maintained and reviewed drug profiles, made clinical suggestions for therapeutic interchange of formulary medications, reviewed physician orders for appropriate clinical use, and provided clinical resources and medication in-services to ancillary hospital personnel.
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 2003-04
Similar to above except I worked primarily with adults and geriatric patients.
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ 2000
My senior research project proposal garnered me the position of the first and only pharmacy intern in Research and Development (R&D). I worked closely with the Senior VP to learn the process of drug development from bench to clinical trials, FDA drug application to marketing, physician detailing, to post-marketing surveillance.
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN 1999, 2000
I was selected as the first pharmacy intern in the sales and marketing division of Eli Lilly. My project was to establish business profiles of the recently burgeoning medical business entities called physician medical groups (PMG) modeled after West Coast providers who sought to gain prominence in health maintenance organizations (HMO).
Purdue University Dept of Microbiology, West Lafayette, IN 1997-2000
I assisted in an undergraduate didactic microbiology lab.
Purdue University, Dept of Computer Science, West Lafayette, IN 1998-99
I was a teaching assistant for an undergraduate class of web-design using HTML
ESL tutor, Bloomington, IN 1996-98
I gained experience as a tutor for English as Second Language (ESL) to graduate international students who came to the United States to prepare for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination.
RESEARCH
To understand the mechanisms by which the heart produces inflammatory mediators like tumor necrosis factor (TNF) that result in myocardial depression and apoptosis subsequent to ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury and examine whether targeted therapies can inhibit their production during ischemic conditions like myocardial infarction and cardiac surgery. I also participated in studies that examined stem cells and the various mechanisms by which their potential clinical therapeutic benefits could be realized in improving myocar...
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