Poster Presentation, Clinical Update of Thoracic Epidural Protocol in Pediatric Scoliosis Anterolateral Repair. Utilizing preoperative imaging (eg. xray/CT) to guide thoracic epidural placement in severely scoliotic pediatric patients.

Research Assistant, USC Ischemic Preconditioning and Neural Protection Laboratory: Keck School of Medicine, Anesthesiology Department, March 2010-2011. Assessed the proximate and ultimate causes of neuronal ischemia and how to prevent ischemia using preconditioning. Collaborated with the chairman of Anesthesiology to build a comprehensive understanding of preconditioning from an evolutionary perspective.

Research Assistant, UCLA Gender, Body Image, Relationships, and Genetics Laboratory: Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, March 2008-2011. Helped design and implement numerous studies on body dissatisfaction, mate preference and allele presence, and impulsivity; collected, input, and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data; coordinated schedules for all research assistants; conducted literature reviews; critiqued manuscripts submitted for publication.

Research Assistant, UCLA Racial Bias and Prejudice Laboratory: Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, March 2008-2011. Conducted studies with participants in stereotype threat and stereotypicality. Collected, input, and coded data; recruited participants for studies; programmed screening surveys on three distinct programming websites. Assigned credit to students who had taken surveys. Helped design a graduate seminar in Sports Psychology. Played an integral part in the intellectual design of multiple studies.

Research Assistant, UCLA Policing and Social Justice Laboratory: Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, September 2009-2011. This laboratory is one of five associated around the world. Our location worked directly with labs in Toronto, Rio De Janero, and South Africa concerning policing and social issues such as prejudice, sexism and homophobia. I input data, helped create ideas and hypotheses for research projects, proposed multiple project ideas including the relationship between police arrest aggressiveness and testosterone levels. Lead a group of 3 research assistants into the San Jose Police Department and ran a large four-day study for which the data was presented to national policy makers and had potential to amend federal policy.

Research Assistant, UCLA MHC and Initial Attraction Project: Department of Psychology, FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development, Los Angeles, September 2009-2011. Martie Haselton and Elizabeth Pillsworth delegated full research projects for me to run on my own for them. I recruited participants, analyzed data, and presented results at poster conferences.