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Katie Wright

May also appear as Katherine Wright.

Contact Information

• Email: kwrigh35 at lion dot lmu dot edu
• Mail: 1 LMU Drive MSB 7100, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Education

Loyola Marymount University, BS Biochemistry, Class of 2018

Coursework

• Analytical Chemistry with Lab
• Biochemistry with Lab
• Physical Chemistry with Lab*
• Molecular Biology*
• Biological Databases*

*Denotes current enrollment

Clubs and Activities

Loyola Marymount University Emergency Medical Services (LMU EMS), Member, Fall 2015 - Present

• Description: LMU EMS is a group of full time undergraduate students at LMU that provides emergency care for the sick and injured on LMU's Westchester campus. All members are nationally certified through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.
• Rank: Veteran in Training
• Leadership roles: Treasurer, 2016

Marians Service Organization, Member, Spring 2015 - Present

• Description: Marians is an all-female service organization, and part of LMU's Center for Service and Action (CSA). Marians prides itself in its commitment to feminism, and focuses its work on the empowerment of women and children.
• Leadership Roles: Executive Board Member, Spirituality, 2016
• Sites Served: Boys and Girls Club, The Midnight Mission, KEEN Los Angeles

Career Interests and Goals

Career Interests

Current: Looking into many different career options, mostly in the field of healthcare.
Previous: Pharmacy, Healthcare Systems Engineer, Nurse Practitioner

Goals

1. Graduate from Loyola Marymount University with a BS in Biochemistry
2. Complete the final year of my undergraduate degree with health and happiness
3. Upon graduation, start a job or post-graduate service position
4. Keep an open mind to a wide variety of career options and opportunities

Work Experience

University of Washington, Division of Hematology

Seattle, WA

Clinical Research Assistant June 2016 - August 2016

Assistant to clinical research team of Pamela S. Becker, MD, PhD

Responsibilities and Skills Learned

• Sample Requisition
• Sample Transportation
• Data Input
• Epic (healthcare software)
• Orca (healthcare software)

Aquarium of the Pacific

Long Beach, CA

Education Intern, June 2015 - August 2015

A paid internship through LMU's NOYCE Program. Intention of program is to help the student discern whether he/she is interested in education as a career option.

Responsibilities

• Assist staff with day-camp activities
• Plan and execute a new educational demonstration for aquarium guests
• Take shifts on floor to educate guests about aquarium and animals
• Learn and publicly deliver a 15 minute show about one of the aquarium exhibits

Loyola Marymount University, Student Housing Office

Los Angeles, CA

Living Learning Community Coordinator, September 2015 - May 2016

Coordinated events and group class trips for "LEAP" and "The Global city" Living Learning communities

Responsibilities

• Plan meaningful experiences for first year students, while coordinating with professors and community theme
• Organize transportation to and from events
• Order catering for meetings and group outings
• Assist professors and Student Housing staff during outings

Area Office Assistant, September 2014 - May 2015

Worked the desk at LMU's Student Housing Office "Northeast Area Office"

Responsibilities

• Issue temporary lock-out cards to students
• Assist students with check-out of cleaning supplies, games, and sports equipment
• Answer student questions and concerns

Personal Interests and Hobbies

Sports

• Ultimate Frisbee
• Baseball, especially the Seattle Mariners

Pop Culture

• Books: Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Movies: Adaptation, The Lord of the Rings (Series)
• Music: Jazz, R&B, Alternative Rock, Choral Music
  

Biology and Computer Science

• My favorite aspect of Biology is that it can be used to explain so much of the world. Biology is such an all-encompassing discipline that I believe anyone can find a component of Biology that really interests him/her. Since I am interested in healthcare, I particularly enjoy learning about how the body heals and what medicines and lifestyles we can adopt to help our bodies become and stay healthy.
• My favorite aspect of Computer Science also has to do with healthcare. I think that using big data and analytics to study the spread of disease is a very exiting field; I also think we need to use data to understand and solve our systematic healthcare crises. Additionally, I am interested in (someone) developing hospital software programs that make it easier to share patient data between hospitals. The way information is shared can be cumbersome and frustrating, which I experienced first hand while working in clinical research last summer.

Biological Databases Coursework

Kwrigh35 Week 2

Acknowledgments

Homework Partners

Thanks to Arash Lari and Quinn Lanners for their help. I missed the first week of class due to illness, and they both filled me in on what I had missed via text message.

Formatting Help

Thanks to Blair Hamilton, Quinn Lanners, and Zach Van Ysseldyk. I looked at their user pages for ideas on how best to format my own user page.

Wiki Syntax

When adding the link to my user page on the wiki's Main Page, I copied syntax used by Blair Hamilton.
For other syntax help, I used the "Practice your Wiki Skills" section of the Week 1 assignment, as well as this Wikipedia Tutorial

While I worked with the people noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source. Kwrigh35 (talk) 23:45, 4 September 2017 (PDT)

References

LMU BioDB 2017. (2017). Week 1. Retrieved September 4, 2017, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2017/index.php/Week_1