Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE HEADINGS

  1. Education
  2. Employment
  3. Certifications
  4. Volunteer Experience
  5. Leadership Experience
  6. Publications and Presentations
  7. Affiliations
  8. Interests and Added Qualifications
  9. References

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CURRICULUM VITAE PREVIEW

Education

Masters of Science in Nursing | Samuel Merritt University | Oakland, CA | 2020-2022

  • NP Preceptorship January 2022 – December 2023
    • Brighter Beginnings Richmond | Richmond, CA – Community Clinic 810 Hours
  • Preceptorship
    • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Summit Campus – Medical Surgical Unit 70 Hours
  • Clinical Experience: 
    • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Ashby Campus – Psychiatric Mental Health Unit 135 Hours
    • Kaiser Permanente | Oakland – Medical Surgical Unit 135 Hours
    • UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital | Oakland Campus – Pediatric 20 Hours
    • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center | Ashby Campus – ICU and ED 50 Hours
    • Operations Safer Grounds | Berkeley Community Health – 70 Hours
    • LifeLong Medical Care | Oakland Trust Health Center Flu Clinic – 20 Hours

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology | University of California, Davis | Davis, CA | 2008 – 2013

  • Courses include Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Quantitative Analysis, General Virology, Recombinant DNA Cloning and Analysis, and Yeast Molecular Genetics.
  • Extensive course list in Communications: Organizational Communication, Semantic & Pragmatic Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Theories of Persuasion, and Mass Communication.

Employment

Family Nurse Practitioner Intern | (January 2022 – January 2023)

Brighter Beginnings Richmond | Richmond, CA

  • Practiced as an FNP student intern in a community health setting under a FNP-C preceptor across the lifespan managing both chronic and acute conditions. Has experience caring for diabetes Type 1 and 2, hypertension, COPD, Women’s Health concerns, pediatric well-child visits, and many others. Assisted in setting up standard operating procedures and processes improvement of incoming new cohort at facility. Experience with eCW EHR.

Registered Nurse On-Call | (Dec. 2021 – Present)

COVID Department

Asian Health Services | Oakland, CA

  • Provides patient education, vaccinations to the community across entire lifespan from infant to adult.
  • Working knowledge of EPIC/EPIC ROVER EHR.

Teaching Assistant | (Jan. 2021 – Jan. 2022)

Academic Support to TeamSTEPPS Training and Interprofessional Dept.

Samuel Merritt University

  • Provides support to faculty and simulation technology to course via online format.
  • Assisted in administrative duties.

Nursing Faculty of Tomorrow (NFT) Candidate | (Oct. 2020 – Jan. 2022)

Academic Support to Interprofessional Hotspotting Course

Samuel Merritt University

  • Provides support to faculty and simulation technology to course via online format.
  • Receives mentorship from current faculty in preparation for a possible future in nursing education.

Peer Tutor | (Jan. 2020 – Present)

Academic Support

Samuel Merritt University

  • Provided tutoring support to the student body on various subjects like: Intro to Research, Pathophysiology, Mental Health Nursing, Nurse as Consumer of Research, and Writing.

Staff Research Associate III | (Nov. 2018 – Aug. 2019)

Dr. Joseph L. DeRisi Lab 

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

University of California, San Francisco

  • Provided research support for multiple studies in the translational medical research labs of Dr. Joe DeRisi, Dr. Michael Wilson, and the Rapid Response team at Chan Zuckerburg Biohub aimed to improve patient diagnostics in infectious diseases by utilizing next-generation sequencing (NGS), in addition to, utilizing phage display technologies for novel antigen discovery for autoimmune diseases.
  • Developed laboratory specific SOPs and taught protocols and techniques to collaborating doctors, scientists, and data scientists locally and with international collaborators.
  • Planned and launched large research projects for both collaborators and in-house laboratories to aid in large research studies.
  • Onboarded new research associates.
  • Managed a small team of research associates to work on large-scale research project.
  • Contributed and assisted in authorship of 9 papers in scientific journals.

Staff Research Associate II | (Dec. 2015 – Nov. 2018)

Dr. Joseph L. DeRisi Lab  

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

University of California, San Francisco

  • Provided research support for multiple studies in the translational medical research labs of Dr. Joe DeRisi and Dr. Michael Wilson aimed to improve patient diagnostics by utilizing next-generation sequencing (NGS).
  • Worked daily with BSL-2 bio-specimens, including CSF, brain tissue, and blood used for pathogen discovery research which involves practicing HIPAA compliancy.
  • Prepared hundreds of NGS libraries to date from bio-specimen sample to sequencer-ready.
  • Independently planned and executed technical research experiments to aid in large-scale projects with collaborating doctors, scientists, and data scientists locally and with international collaborators.
  • Performed independent experiments to support, troubleshoot, optimize and improve workflow of experiments and protocols. 
  • Improved, compiled, and write laboratory SOPs.
  • Trained incoming laboratory personnel including technicians, graduate students, post-docs, doctors, principal investigators, and team leaders on SOPs and the use of new instruments.
  • Established a biobank and database for studies, and regularly maintain, curate, and manage inventory of 300 samples in 2015 to well over 2000 samples to date.
  • Collaborated with vendors to improve and automate workflow of bio-specimen handling and processing.

Certifications

CA RN License: 95257981

CA FNP License: Application in process

CA FNP Furnishing License: Application in process

AANP FNP Certification: F02230703 

Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (BLS) – Expires July 2023

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program (CITI Program)

2015    Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research

2015    CITI Good Clinical Practice Course

2015    Human Subjects Protection Training

2015    Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research Course

UCSF

2018    Bloodborne Pathogens Training

2018     General Compliance Briefing: University of California Ethical Values and Conduct

2018     HIPAA 101 – Privacy and Security for New UCSF Faculty, Staff, Trainees, Students and Volunteers

Volunteer Experience

Dr. Joseph L. DeRisi Lab | Summer 2016, 2017

Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

University of California, San Francisco

  • Volunteered to train and mentor students from both high school and college in laboratory techniques.
  • Mentored an undergraduate in the Summer Research Training Program, and assisted with accomplishing program goals of oral and poster presentations.

Alpha Phi Omega

Community Service Organization

2010 – 2014

  • Volunteered over 70 hours of community service during a school year for three years during university, and regularly after graduation.
  • Volunteering experience includes at the senior center, park restoration, charity events, working with special needs kids, and many more.  

Leadership Experience

Alpha Phi Omega

Community Service Organization

2010 – 2013

  • Recruited, trained, and managed large workshops as big as 20-30 people designed to teach team-building, communication, and leadership skills.
  • Assisted in organizing large events during regional and sectional conventions with over 100+ people in attendance.
  • Held various committee positions to oversee organization operations.
  • Coordinated and facilitated weekly organization meetings, and made meeting more efficient.

Publications and Presentations

Virtual Student Hotspotting: Using simulation-based education during the COVID pandemic at Samuel Merritt University. Khan LM, Azzam A., Gwin, T, Negrete, MJ, and Hester-Anderson A. The National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs. https://www.nationalcomplex.care/blog/virtual-student-hotspotting-using-simulation-based-education-during-the-covid-pandemic-at-samuel-merritt-university/

Innovating the National Center’s Hotspotting Curriculum with the Incorporation of Longitudinal Standardized Patients through Virtual Simulation.Khan LM, Negrete, MJ, Gwin, T, Hester-Anderson A, Azzam A. Poster Presented at Samuel MerrittUniversity Winter Symposium 2020.

ZSCAN1 Autoantibodies Are Associated with Pediatric Paraneoplastic ROHHAD.Mandel-Brehm C, Benson LA, Tran B, Kung AF, Mann SA, Vazquez SE, Retallack H, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Khan LM, Kerr LM, McAlpine PL, Zhang L, McCarthy F, Elias JE, Katwa U, Astley CM, Tomko S, Dalmau J, Seeley WW, Pleasure SJ, Wilson MR, Gorman MP, DeRisi JL.Ann Neurol. 2022 Aug; 92(2):279-291. doi: 10.1002/ana.26380.

Central Nervous System Virus Infection in African Children with Cerebral Malaria.Postels DG, Osei-Tutu L, Seydel KB, Xu Q, Li C, Taylor TE, John CC, Mallewa M, Solomon T, Agbenyega T, Ansong D, Opoka RO, Khan LM, Ramachandran PS, Leon KE, DeRisi JL, Langelier C, Wilson MR. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Jul;103(1):200-205. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0962.

Genomic and serologic characterization of enterovirus A71 brainstem encephalitis. Leon KE, Schubert RD, Casas-Alba D, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, Crawford ED, Khan LM, Launes C, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Cabrerizo M, Valero-Rello A, Langelier C, Muñoz-Almagro C, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR.Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm., 2020. DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000703.

Unbiased metagenomic sequencing for pediatric meningitis in Bangladesh reveals neuroinvasive Chikungunya virus outbreak and other unrealized pathogens. Saha S, Ramesh A, Kalantar K, Malaker R, Hasanuzzaman M, Khan LM, Mayday MY, Sajib MSI, Li LM, Langelier C, Rahman H, Crawford ED, Tato CM, Islam M, Juan YF, de Bourcy C, Dimitrov B, Wang J, Tang J, Sheu J, Egger R, De Carvalho TR, Wilson MR, Saha SK, DeRisi. JL.mBio, 2019. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02877-19

Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis. Schubert RD, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Crawford ED, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, O’Donovan BD, Tato CM, Lyden A, Tan M, Sit R, Sowa GA, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Banerji D, Khan LM, Bove R, Hauser SL, Gelfand AA, Johnson-Kerner BL, Nash K, Krishnamoorthy KS, Chitnis T, Ding JZ, McMillan HJ, Chiu CY, Briggs B, Glaser CA, Yen C, Chu V, Wadford DA, Dominguez SR, Ng TFF, Marine RL, Lopez AS, Nix WA, Soldatos A, Gorman MP, Benson L, Messacar K, Konopka-Anstadt JL, Oberste MS, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR. Nature Medicine 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0613-1.

Kelch-like Protein 11 Seminoma-associated Paraneoplastic Encephalitis.Mandel-Brehm C, Dubey D, Kryzer TJ, O’Donovan BD, Tran B, Vazquez SE, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Khan LM, Bledsoe IO, McKeon A, Pleasure SJ, Lennon VA, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR, Pittock SJ.NEJM, 2019. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1816721.

Miniaturization and optimization of 384-well compatible metagenomics sequencing library preparation. Madeline Y Mayday MY, Khan LM, Chow ED, Zinter MS, DeRisi JL. PLOS One, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/440156.

Clinicopathology conference: 41-year-old woman with chronic relapsing meningitis.Beck ES, Ramachandran PS, Khan LM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, O’Connell EM, Nash T, Reich DS, Venkatesan A, DeRisi JL, Nath A, Wilson MR.Ann Neurol. 2019 Feb;85(2):161-169. doi: 10.1002/ana.25400.

Integrating host response and unbiased microbe detection for lower respiratory tract infection diagnosis in critically ill adults.Langelier C, Kalantar KL, Moazed F4 Wilson MR, Crawford ED, Deiss T, Belzer A, Bolourchi S, Caldera S, Fung M, Jauregui A, Malcolm K, Lyden A, Khan L, Vessel K, Quan J, Zinter M, Chiu CY, Chow ED, Wilson J, Miller S, Matthay MA, Pollard KS, Christenson S, Calfee CS, DeRisi JLPNAS, 2018. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1809700115.

Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation SequencingWilson MR, O’Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, Langelier C, Bryson-Cahn C, Harrington W, Lingappa JR, Shanbhag NM, Green AJ, Brew BJ, Soldatos A, Strnad L, Doernberg SB, Jay CA, Douglas V, Josephson SA, DeRisi JL.JAMA Neurology, 2018. DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.0463.

Speaker, “The Evolution of Library Prep” DeRisi Lab Meeting. UCSF. January 2018.

Novel Cause of Chronic Vial Meningoencephalitis: Cache Valley Virus.Wilson MR, Suan D, Duggins A, Schubert RD, Khan LM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Rodrigues Hoffman A, Blick A, Shingde M, DeRisi JL. Annals of Neurology, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/ana.24982.

Speaker, “DeRisi Lab Sequencing Protocol Optimizations” DeRisi Lab Meeting, UCSF. May 2017.

Acute West Nile virus meningoencephalitis diagnosed via metagenomics deep sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid in a renal transplant patient.Wilson MR, Zimmermann LL,  Crawford ED, Sample HA, Soni PR, Baker AN, Khan LM, DeRisi JL.

American Journal of Transplantation, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14058.

Illuminating Uveitis: Metagennomic Deep Sequencing Identifies Common and Rare Pathogens. Doan T, Wilson MR, Crawford ED, Chow ED, Khan LM, Knopp KA, O’Donovan BD, Xia D, Hacker JK, Stewart JM, Gonzales JA, Acharya NR, DeRisi JL. Genome Medicine, 2016. DOI: 10.1186/s13073-016-0344-6.

Affiliations

Sigma Tau

American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

Interests and Added Qualifications

Sigma Tau member

Working knowledge of CSS/HTML 

Languages spoken: intermediate/advanced understanding of Khmer (Cambodia) and conversational Spanish.

References

*Available upon request