Job Title:
Clinical Research Coordinator

Experience Working with Psychiatric Patients:
I have 10 years of experience working with persons with mental illness. I have provided acute psychiatric care, psychosocial rehabilitation, and long-term residential care to child, adolescent, and adult populations with mental illness. During my time at Community Clinical Research, I have worked with both acutely ill and psychiatrically stable adult subjects in an inpatient and outpatient research setting.

Experience Working in Research:
I have worked for over 6 years in clinical research and coordinated Phase I-III trials.

Credentials & Degrees:
I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin with special honors in Psychology.

Ratings Scales Approved for / Areas of Clinical Research Interest:
Neuropsychiatric Ratings Experience
• Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
• Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
• Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)
• Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
• Calgary Depression Scale
• Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D)

Neurocognitive Testing Experience
• MATRICS battery
• Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) battery
• CogState-7 battery
• California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
• Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
• WRAT III – Reading Test
• Benton Visual Reproduction Test
• Digit Symbol Substitution Test
• Letter-Number Span Test
• Auditory Digit Span Test
• Auditory Number Sequencing Test
• PENN Affect Recognition Test (PEAT)
• Facial Memory Test
• Trailmaking Tests, A and B
• Finger Tapping Test
• Strategic Target Detection Test
• Spatial Working Memory Test
• Set Shifting Test
• Go-No Go Test
• Category Naming (semantic fluency)
• Controlled Oral Association Test (phonological fluency)
• Continuous Performance Tests (A-X, Identical Pairs, and Flanker
versions)

I am particularly interested in schizophrenia research, specifically cognition in schizophrenia and the links between positive and negative symptoms and long-term social outcomes.