MARCELA CHRISTINA MUSGROVE
Web site: http://marcelaontheweb.weebly.com E-
mail:*********@*****.***
Summary: Interdisciplinary background in human-computer interaction,
library/information science and medical informatics. Specialty keywords:
User experience, usability and human factors. Social media and online
communities in healthcare. Native Spanish-English bilingual.
EDUCATION
Masters in Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health and Sciences University,
2010-12
ONC Scholarship, Courses in Consumer Health Informatics, Global Health,
Evidence-Based Medicine,Java, Databases, Software Engineering, Project
Management, Biostatistics, Public Health Informatics, Qualitative Research
Methods, Research Design, Scientific Writing, Practice of Healthcare,
Organizational Behavior
M.S. Human-Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology. Received
May 2005
Certificate in Management of Technology from College of Management. Awarded
the Verizon Scholarship.
Study abroad in Barcelona, Spain and Tokyo, Japan
B.S. Applied Mathematics, B.A. in Multidisciplinary studies, minors in
Spanish and Physics.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Received 12/98. Summer
abroad in Madrid, Spain
Bryn Mawr College, liberal arts coursework, study abroad at University of
Chile 1992-95
EXPERIENCE
User Researcher-Freelance contract with Indiana University/U of Rochester
6/12-9/12
Conducted focus groups & interviews to design mhealth app for low-literacy
Latinas with eating disorders
Healthcare Volunteer-OHSU Hospital: Aided staff and patients on surgical
nursing unit 6/12-8/12
Translator-iCHEE interdisciplinary Student Clinic for refugees
Spring 2012
Health Informatics Intern,Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in
Research 9/11-4/12
Developed health care resources online toolkit (content and database) for
clinicians and adult consumers on autism spectrum, took part in community-
based participatory research efforts
Skills used: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, health information evaluation, user
research
Social Media volunteer, Society for Participatory Medicine.
8/10-9/12
Organize and co-host #s4pm chat, post to facebook pages and @s4pm feed
Human Factors/Medical Informatics Intern, UVa Hospital & Systems Eng Dept
6/10-9/10
Conducted human factors research with post-doc on role of nurse
interruptions in pediatric wards
Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology,Netherlands
4/06-7/07
Research on role of mobile phones in social interaction and etiquette
within larger framework of location awareness, social software,
connectedness and ubiquitous computing
Information Architect/User Researcher (contract), Merge Agency.
1/06-4/06
Conducted focus groups, usability testing, and designed wireframes in
Omnigraffle
QA Intern (Co-op), Air2Web.com
1/04-5/04
Wrote test plans and performed tests on mobile devices
Web developer/QA (contract), JBoss.com Coded HTML & QA for redesign of
JBoss site 1/03-7/03
Webmaster, Adler Planetarium
4/01-11/01
User research, accessibility, content, QA, html/perl and usability testing
for Adler site
Web developer, USatwork.com
10/99-4/00
Designed web pages and banner ads for photographers using Dreamweaver,
Flash, and Fireworks
Maintained and coded creative arts section of website in HTML and
JavaScript.
Lucent Technologies, Performance Tester
1/99-10/99