Assistant Engineer

Parina Shah

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OBJECTIVE

Desiring a challenging position as a biomedical engineer to develop devices

and procedures that can solve the health-related problems by combining

biology, medicine and engineering.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

. Over two years of experience in clinical research field performing

functional MRI imaging, recruiting and consenting patients, data

acquisition, analysis and presenting the results for scientific

meetings and publishing in journals .

. Proficient in various software tools and programming languages

required for the stimuli presentation, data gathering and analysis.

. Trained in IRB (International Review Board) and HIPAA (Health

Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulation.

. Online Certification of GCP (Good Clinical Practice) and ICH

(International Conference in Harmonization guidelines.

. Capable team player/leader with exceptional interpersonal skills to

foster team's performance along with demonstrated abilities to work

individually.

. Self motivated and quick learner.

. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

EDUCATION

. MS in Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

Newark, NJ 2006-2007

. BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sarvajanik College

of Engineering and technology, Surat, India

2002-2006

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Software: AFNI software package, E-Prime,

Presentation Software.

. Statistical tools: SAS and R tool.

. Programming languages: C language, MATLAB programming

. Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2003, UNIX, LINUX, MS-

DOS

. Other Skills: LabView, ProE for biomaterials

EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Assistant -Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY

Jan'10 - present

The Radiology and Imaging Department at Hospital for Special Surgery is

conducting a Research in MRI under the guidance of Dr Hollis Potter. I am

currently involved in two projects. First research involves improving the

imaging technique near the implants in shoulder, knee and hip. Second one

is where new sequence called UTE is used to study the meniscus in sheep

knee. My Primary Duty include:

. To consent the patients.

. To Acquire the data for both the above mentioned project and do

statistical analyses using Matlab.

. Record all the information obtained during the MRI scan in the excel

sheet and display the result in power point.

. To write a code in Matlab to further analyzes the data if and when

needed.

Research Assistant II - UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Feb' 08- Oct' 09

The Division of Epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a leading

research institute for biomedical, is conducting clinical and laboratory

research on Gulf War veterans who are suffering from the Neurologic

illness, lead by Robert Haley. I am part of the neuroimaging research

center where advanced brain scanning technology is used to understand the

nature and distribution of the brain damage in the Gulf war Syndrome

patients. I am currently involved in three different projects that

include Quantitative Sensory testing (QST), Functional Connectivity and

Memory and Language testing for Gulf War Illness patients.

My primary responsibilities include:

. To Acquire and analyze the fMRI data (Pre-processing and

Statistical analysis)using AFNI and Matlab that helps to infer the

underlying brain damage dysfunction of Gulf War illness.

. Prepare tables and graphs of results from data analyses and present

the findings to the research team, for professional scientific

meetings and journal publications.

. Documenting all the results and findings.

. Evaluate problems, propose solutions, and design new methods of

data acquisition, analysis and interpretation using biomedical

engineering principles.

. To recruit and consent the patients.

. Operate the MRI machine if and when needed.

. Designing and running the paradigm on the Gulf War Patients using

different software like Presentation and E-Prime.

. Help the other groups who are similarly involved in the Gulf War

study for data processing and statistical analysis.

Graduate Student Assistant at University of Medicine and Dentistry,Newark,

NJ Jan'06-Dec'07

Master's thesis

. To model the fMRI response using the linear parametric models and

try to understand the underlying neurovasculature mechanism

associated with human brain.

. AFNI was used to preprocess the data.

. Statistical analysis was done using Matlab.

. Stimulus was presented using presentation software.

. To recruit and consent the patients.

CONFERENCE

. Quantitative Sensory Testing fMRI: Differences between Gulf War

Illness Patients and Deployed Controls by A. I. Goyal, P. Gandhi, Y.

Fang1, L. Jiang1, L. Ouyang, S. Ganji, D. Buhner, W. Ringe, K.

Gopinath, R. Briggs, and R. Haley -ISMRM -2010

. Reduced Hippocampal Body Functional Connectivity in Gulf War Illness

by Y. Fang1, L. Ouyang1, C. Onuegbulem, A. Goyal1, L. Jiang, P.

Gandhi, S. Ganji1, W. Ringe, K. Gopinath, R. Briggs, and R. Haley

ISMRM -2010

. Functional Connectivity Differences to Ventral Putamen of Gulf War

Syndrome II and Control Subjects by Lei Jiang, Parina Gandhi, Mingguo

Qui, Aman Goyal, Yan Fang, Luo Ouyang, Kaundinya Gopinath, Wendy

Ringe, Robert Haley and Richard Briggs.- ISMRM 2009.

. Comparison of Linear Parametric Models for predicting fMRI Response by

Parina J. Gandhi, and Bharat B. Biswal - ISMRM 2008.

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