Rodel Wade, Jr.

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Professional Skills And Abilities

Relevant Work Skills

Leadership Skills

Coordination of personnel during surgeries

Circulation and Scrub Nurse which includes preparation of surgical suite for surgeries with equipment

and surgical instruments

Management and Maintenance of surgical suite, clean storage areas, and necropsy room

Guidance and Resource for Good Laboratory Practices, audit process and Environmental Health and

Safety

Assignment of tasks to student employees

Organization and implementation of monthly group initiatives

Manage safety compliance of over 30 staff personnel for laboratory

Implementation of Study Protocols.

Management of inventory including equipment maintenance and operation, ordering supplies, and supply

tracking

Lead Technician - Implement/management of multiples studies, creation and maintenance of study data

books

Technical Skill

Handling rodents, non- human primates, canines, felines, porcine, ovine and rabbits

Collected Samples for Analysis - blood, feces, urine, milk and tissues (brain, spine, heart, etc.)

Administration or collection routes - IV, IM, IP, subcutaneous, orbital sinus femoral and jugular vein,

vena cava, cardiac puncture, oral gavage

Analysis of blood - centrifuge and processing whole blood

Necropsy of rodents and sheep and harvesting of brains, dorsal root ganglion and legs with accompanying

tissues

Operation of tunnel washer, autoclave, fluoroscope, CT, rack washer

Euthanasia of moribund animals

Expression of rodent bladders

C5 Laminectomy followed by a contusion injury

Cold sectioning of spinal cords onto slides

Operation of magstim device to measure Magnetic Motor Evoked Potentials

Perfusion via cardiac puncture of rodents with para formaldehyde

Preparation/ Execution of Nissel Myelin staining

Sterile Scrub to prepare surgical site

Collection of vaginal fluid for estrus determination

Animal Husbandry - cage changing, temperature/ humidity management, and overall vivarium

maintenance and cleanliness

Preparation of stock solutions, analgesics, antibiotics

Clinical observations which include body weights, overall health, food consumption, etc.

Handling of neonate rodent and rabbit pups, determination of parturition, and weaning/ culling

Mating of rodents and rabbits - mating plug detection and random selection of breeding pairs

Behavior Data Collection skills

Hargreaves Testing for Thermal Hyperalgesia

Running Catwalk gait analysis along with collection of that data

Passive Avoidance

Righting Behavior in pups

Functional Observational Battery

Administrative Skills

Quality control and quality assurance audits of raw data during and after end of study

Written responses to safety and quality assurance audits including maintenance of MSDS sheets

Maintenance/ organization of hard and soft standard operating procedures including creation and revision

Proficient with data capture applications including Microsoft Office Suite

Data Management - collection, organization of hard and soft data, and computer aided analysis

Publications

Côté M-P, Detloff MR, Wade, Jr. RE, Lemay, MA., Houlé JD. Plasticity in ascending long propriospinal

and descending supraspinal pathways in chronic cervical spinal cord injured rats ( Front Physiol)

2012.

Detloff, MR, Wade, Jr. RE, Houlé, JD. Chronic at- and below-level pain following unilateral cervical

spinal cord contusion in rats. Journal of Neurotrauma 2012; PMID: 23216008 In Press.

Education

Masters of Science, Laboratory Animal Science, Drexel University, 2011

Bachelors of Science, General Zoology, Michigan State University, 2005

Relevant Work History

University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center, Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratory,

Philadelphia, PA

Large Animal O.R. Technician/ GLP Assistant, Aug. 2011 - June 2012

Quality Assurance Assistant, March 2012 - June 2012

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,

Animal Laboratory Research Intern, May 2011 - Aug 2011

Drexel University, College of Medicine, Spinal Cord Research Center, Philadelphia, PA

Research Assistant/ Safety Officer, Nov 2009- May 2011

Cephalon Inc. West Chester, PA, Rodent Technician, Sept. 2008- June 2009

Charles River Laboratories, Horsham, PA, Research Technician I, Apr. 2007 - July 2008

MPI Research Inc. Mattawan, MI, Research Technician I, Apr. 2005 - Dec. 2005

References

Megan R. Detloff, Ph.D.

Spinal Cord Research Center

Neurobiology and Anatomy

Drexel University College of Medicine

2900 Queen Lane

Philadelphia, PA 19129

ab89b4@r.postjobfree.com

215-***-****

Renee Rawls Lead Technologist

University of Pennsylvania

Biomedical Research Building II/III

421 Curie Blvd

Philadelphia, PA 19104

phone: 215-***-****

fax: 215-***-****

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