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Work Qualifications/Certification (updated 10/12/06) 2004-Inifinity I am now enrolled in the first official MD/PhD class at Wayne State Universtiy in Detroit. I have completed the first two years of medical school and slain the beast of Boards. I have joined the Center for Molecular Medicine for my PhD, and am working on a project in the area of epilepsy. I can elaborate more if you are interested. Or you could just read this whole science section of the F30 training grant I submitted. Summer of 2003: ADDITION: What I ended up doing this summer was comparing the neurotoxity of two cancer drugs - cisplatin, and its recent variation, oxaliplatin. Yet again, I found myself doing microdissections in lab. This time, I frequently dissected out the spinal cords of embrionic rats and pulled off the dorsal root ganglia to get a DRG cell culture. I did assorted treatments to the cultures and then counted cell to determine cell survival rate. Somehow I was selected for a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at Mayo clinic. I'm in Rochester at the time of typing this, after being here for two days. I'm working under Dr. Anthony (Tony) Windebank, the dean of the Mayo med school. There are people from all over the world here, and from all over the U.S.. I don't think I've heard of two people coming from the same state yet. It should be a great summer! Summer of 2002: I did an internship at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in the College of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. I worked in the lab of Dr. Jeff Loeb, doing research about the formation of synapses in the neuromuscular junction. I had a great time and learned TONS about microbiology and modern laboratory procedures. By the end of the summer, I was doing all of my research indepently, including working with radioactive probes and the extremely deadly toxin, Tetrodotoxin. 1999-2000: I've also volunteered at Carle Foundation hospital for the summer in the post-anesthesia ward.
That's the story for now. Hopefully there will be updates.
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