EDUCATION:

         1990      B.Sc., Bioengineering

                       College of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago

         1995      Ph.D., Pharmacology

                       Department of Pharmacology, The University of Michigan

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PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

1995-1998      Cardiovascular Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow,

                       Mentor: Paul C. Simpson, M.D., San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF

 

1998-2000      AHA Postdoctoral Fellow

                       Mentor: Paul C. Simpson, M.D., San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF

 

2000-2003      Lead Scientist, Alliance for Cellular Signaling (AFCS)

                       Laboratory for Development of Signaling Assays (LDSA)

                       University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)

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2003-2009      Assistant Scientist

                       Cardiovascular Research Center

                       Sanford Research/USD

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2009-2012      Associate Director

                       Cardiovascular Research Center

                       Sanford Research/USD

 

AWARDS AND HONORS:

1990              Graduated with College Honors with a B.Sc. in Bioengineering from The University of Illinois at Chicago

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1990              1st Place, Engineering Exposition, The University of Illinois at Chicago,

                      Project Title: Optical Scattering Measurements of Isolated Contracting Myocytes

 

1990-1995     Pharmacological Sciences Training Program Grant (NIH/NIGMS Grant GM-7767) at The University of Michigan

 

1995              Rackham Dissertation Award, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The University of Michigan

 

1995-1998     Cardiovascular Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of California at San Francisco

 

1998-2000     American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship

 

2001              Finalist for the Richard J. Bing Young Investigator Award (ISHR)

 

2002               AHA Young Investigator Travel Award for Advances in the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Heart Failure                            Meeting, Snowbird, Utah

 

2015-2021     Elected to International Society of Heart Research Council

 

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

American Heart Association, Basic Research Council (AHA)

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) - Council Member (2015 - 2021)

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

 

REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS:

American Journal of Physiology, Heart and Circulation

Cardiovascular Research

Circulation

Circulation Research

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Physiologic Genomics