Medical Product Innovator
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
May 2012-August 2018
Caruso Homes, Inc.
My family was generous enough to allow me to work at our company. I was exposed to many positions over the years such as marketing, accounting & purchasing and sales! This experience allowed me to work on my interpersonal skills, professionalism, PR knowledge and organization & time management.
August 2015-May 2019
Clemson University
My time at Clemson University was truly the best four years of my life! I became apart of a sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, where I served as VP of Panhellenic Relations in 2018-2019, as well as lead recruitment groups and risk management committees. I majored in bioengineering with a materials concentration and graduated with a 3.3. I made Dean's list Spring 2017, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019!
Spring 2016-Fall 2016
Creative Inquiry: Mind Controlled 3D Printing
A creative inquiry is a club formed by a graduate student or professor that allows students to explore the curriculum in a more relaxed setting. Mind Controlled 3D Printing sparked my interest as a new engineering student. I quickly picked up the slack in the communication between our team and the "mind control" equipment company, Emotiv+ so that we could make the most informed decision for the programming and communication with the 3D printer. I also wrote up the provisional patent for our product!
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Creative Inquiry: Design with Docs
Design with Docs was a bioengineering CI where we were partnered with clinicians from the Greenville Health System (now Prisma Health). My small team (3) was teamed up with a nurse and developed a device that enhanced the current standard of sanitation during personal waste clean-up. This whole creative inquiry also worked with an ENT during their patent process to increase a product's efficacy.
Summer 2017
Kahan Pain Management
Dr. Brian Kahan of Annapolis, MD (AAMC) allowed me to shadow his everyday routine for about four weeks in the summer of 2017. I assisted procedures such a epidurals, Radiofrequency lesioning and nerve route blocks. I even offered my knowledge of drug delivery devices in an emergency when a woman with a morphine pump experienced a bad taste in her mouth and was looking for answers!
Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Creative Inquiry: Design & Entreprenurship Network
This CI was three hours each week where the first half we would have a guest lecturer from industry introduce a new topic and the second half we would announce to the group ideas for a project and then apply that day's information to it to see how it would play out in the real world! This expanded my understanding of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication.
Summer 2018
Laser Center of Maryland
Dr. Jared Mallalieu and Dr. Ross VanAntwerp of Severna Park, Maryland allowed me to shadow their everyday routine for about six weeks sin the summer of 2018. I assisted in laser surgeries and observed many cosmetic surgeries. This was a very insightful experience because I became familiar with the instrumentation and why they were designed in a specific way, my own ideas were flowing every time I showed up for work! I often found myself needs finding and then asking questions or making suggestions for small adjustments to devices and getting to understand what exactly the clinicians wanted on the spot was great!
Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Creative Inquiry: Soft Tissue Injuries
The soft tissue injuries creative inquiry was aimed at ligament damage and the ability to visualize it under ultrasound. This sharpened my wet lab technique as we were to dissect ligaments from a fresh porcine leg! I also worked with culturing the dissections sos I know what is necessary to keep them alive over the duration of our project! Another portion of this CI was development of a device to put the ligament in tension and develop a related computational model.
Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Senior Design
Senior Design was by far my favorite course in the bionegineereing curriculum! I was apart of a teaam that had a surgical oncology focus, we called ourselves Sublime Surgical Solutions. This course was a team based development, construction and evaluation of design prototypes in accordance with design theory. This experience was actually carried beyond the scope of the course as I wrote up our provisional patent and we submitted it.
August 2019-Present
University of Pittsburgh
I chose to attend the University of Pittsburgh for my master's degree among other schools due to its prowess in the medical device entrepreneurial field! I have completed my first semester with a 3.8 my courses were, Managing Medical Product R&D, Medical Product Ideation and Computer Applications in Bioengineering which specialized in the understanding of LabView. I will complete my degree in December of 2020.
August 2019-Present
Center for Medical Innovation
I am the Center for Medical Innovation fellow under Dr. Alan Hirschman. I sit in on all funding meetings and help organize and keep up with previously funded projects. I work on the website, make effective flyers for the program and run the student blog! Check out our blog below!