Clinical Care Coordinator, Population Health Department - CommuniCare - San Antonio, TX
(2025-05 - 2025-08)
- Coordinates patient care as determined by provider and works with clinic staff and population department
- Answers patient calls regarding clinical questions for clinical care coordination panel patients
- Addresses awareness of health issues and concerns
- Available to coordinate resources for high risk/poor compliance patients as determined by primary provider and clinical staff
- Contacts CommuniCare post-hospitalization, post-ER, and post-op patients regarding their status and follow-ups
- Reviews no show list and contacts patients regarding status and clinical plan
- Assists, initiate referrals, and coordinates transitions of care regarding hospitalizations follow-up, pallative care, hospice, etc.
- Completes documentation in the electronic medical record
Research Science Assistant, Primordial Germ Cell Lab - UTSA - San Antonio, TX
(2022-02 - 2023-08)
- Attended weekly meetings to discuss scientific ideas, opinions, and collaborate on future experiments
- Created a Drosophila melanogaster inventory stock list with explicit and specific genetic names
- Learned to flip vials containing researched Drosophila melanogaster into new vials and mixed reagents
- Micro-dissected researched Drosophila melanogaster flies to prepare gonads from immunofluorescent confocal microscopy
- Crossed parental Drosophila melanogaster to create first generation embryos for genetic knockdown via RNAi
Math Tutor, Mathematics Department - UTSA - San Antonio, TX
(2020-08 - 2021-01)
- Tutored students on a weekly basis to meet their scholastic needs for algebra classes
Student MA Externship - CommuniCare x GCA - San Antonio, TX
(2025-02 - 2025-03)
- Counted and restocked women's health medical supplies for mobile health unit events
- Filed and labeled English, Spanish, and Pashto medical slide program resource along with Prime Health, FPP, LARCs, and BCCS resources. Patient registration forms were organized too.
- Obtained Spanish and English-speaking patient vital signs, MHU set-up, and shadowed phlebotomy procedure at Carlo's Elementary School
- Networked and promoted about the MHU with other organizations at UIW's health fair on March 5
- Presented about iHealth Track BP Sync x Healow App to MHU and Health/Wellness Coaches Department
- Created infographs on menstruation, PCOS, and Endometriosis
Medical Assistant Program - Goodwill's Good Careers Academy - San Antonio, TX
(2024-07 - 2025-07)
31-week medical assisting program: Modules 1-6 including an externship.
- Adaptable medical assistants perform roles including vital signs, assistance in exams and procedures, administering injections, medications, EKGs, phlebotomy, laboratory procedures, navigating patient upon and after visit, updating electronic health records.
Pediatric Shadowing - Gateway Community Health Center, Inc - Laredo, TX
(2024-01 - 2024-04)
- Observed patients under Pediatrician, Nurse Practitioner, and Physician Residents
- Accumulated 108 hours with 167 patients visiting their pediatric primary care providers
- Acquired a skill set using the SOAP method as guidance for diagnosis differentiation along with proper treatment.
- Practiced avid reading using credible articles or case studies to understand, ask, and combine with my clinical observations including conditions like: ASD, ADHD, and vaccine refusal/hesitancy in the United States.
- Learned how to navigate the EHR system, read growth charts along with pertinent history, and came up with a plausible diagnosis prior to seeing patients.
- Calculated medications based off a patient's weight with safe dosage range.
Public Health Research - UTSA Global Health Research Lab - San Antonio, TX
(2022-01 - 2024-01)
- Collaboration with the Department of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University
- Approved Human Subject Research from IRB university committee
- Initiated with team on literature review, recruitment, data collection, and questionnaire to population sample.
- Focused questionnaire assessments on "Perceptions about Parenthood Timing and Fertility in Relation to Career Goals among Undergraduate Health-Career Students at Hispanic-Serving Institution in South Texas"
- Accepted, presented, and won "Top Poster" at the UTSA Public Health Week Research Showcase.
- Received, accepted, and published article under the Journal of American College Health
Primordial Germ Cell Volunteer - UTSA Barton Lab - San Antonio, TX
(2022-08 - 2022-12)
- Attended lab meetings and article discussions.
- Assisted in laboratory set-up, fly-flipping, pipetting, embryo fixing and washing.
External Events Coordinator - Women in Medicine at UTSA - San Antonio, TX
(2022-06 - 2022-12)
- Actively participated during office meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays per week
- Achieved points to have passed active membership in addition to officer role
- Assisted in contacting a variety of healthcare speakers weekly to suit healthcare disparity themes
Food Bank, Warehouse and Kitchen Volunteer - Haven for Hope Community Kitchen & Warehouse - San Antonio, TX
(2021-12 - 2022-12)
- Volunteered at Haven for Hope Community Kitchen, Warehouse Sorting and Packaging, Uvalde Support Day
Family Medicine Shadowing - Laredo Premier Healthcare - Laredo, TX
(2021-06 - 2021-08)
- Shadowed a physician during daily appointments and observed other healthcare professionals doing vitals and patient care
Founder, Pre-Med Society - St. Augustine High School - Laredo, TX
(2017-08 - 2018-05)
- Recruited high school students to organization for exposure to CPR certifications, fundraising scholarships for college materials, healthcare and financial aid speaker series, and AHEC activities.
Tex Prep Tutor/Assistant - TAMIU - Laredo, TX
(2017-06 - 2017-08)
- Uplifted middle schoolers in a kind environment to foster curiosity and innovation in STEM high school courses
