Riley Suh

My name is Riley Suh.

I am a recent Brown University Alum, where I earned my Bachelors in Public Health. While at Brown, I was a research assistant for two labs in the School of Public Health's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

I want to promote health justice and equity for underserved communities, particularly unhoused and impoverished people.

Research Assistant - UCSF Medical Center Thoracic Oncology Lab (August 2024)

• I will support Dr. David Jablons and Vivianne Ding in the thoracic oncology lab to study tumorigenesis and to help develop new drugs that target cancer signaling pathways.

• I volunteer weekly for 14 hours in the Patient and Guest Services office. In this position, I round the entire hospital, offering patients comfort and distraction materials like magazines or blankets. I also provide patients company, especially those in the hospital for extended periods or do not have visitors. I reunite patients with lost items, collecting items from various hospital departments and mailing them to their owners. I am comfortable using Epic Systems to access and manage patient information and HIPAA compliance.

• I recruited participants through distributing recruitment material, screened callers for eligibility, and coordinated with the study team. I also conducted visits and qualitative interviews with participants, later transcribing and coding the qualitative interviews.
• I am a co-author of the main outcomes paper which is currently being reviewed for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

• I recruited participants and conducted visits and qualitative interviews with participants. I also collected patient data like urine samples, weight, height, blood pressure, and exhaled CO levels. I am a co-author on the main outcomes paper and a secondary qualitative paper. The main outcomes paper was published in the Journal of Nicotine & Tobacco Research (March 2024).

B.A. Public Health, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa – Brown University