Hongmei Wu

Experience

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  Global Medical Training at UCI

  Mar 2021 - May 2023

  Publicity Coordinator

  • Keep charge of club website and social media accounts. Create newsletters, flyers, and posters for upcoming events. Design T-shirt for domestic and abroad events. Take photos for in-person events and manage the production of all advertising videos. Organize the booth during Anteater Involvement Fair and host other publicizing events.• Actively participate in other organizational events including food pantry, HRI Syringe Access Program, UROP research project, fundraising, mentorship and medical trips abroad to help the underprivileged communities in orange county and in central American countries. Show less

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  UC Irvine Health Department of Nephrology and Hypertension

  Jul 2021 - Dec 2023

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  Work 6-8 hours per week in Dr. Wei ling Lau’s lab on projects related to the kidney-gut-brain axis on brain microbleeds formation in mice model with tubulointerstitial nephritis. Assist with brain histology analysis, data analysis, animal work, tissue collection and processing, behavior study, and other seasonal work including clinical research projects at UCI Health. Participated in UROP project and Excellence in Research program.

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  COPE Health Solutions

  Feb 2022 - May 2024

  COPE Health Scholar / Department Coordinator

  Assist medical staff at Kaiser Permanente Irvine with direct patient care tasks including ambulation, discharge, feeding, bathing, reposition, transportation, administration, and other work directed by supervisors. Finished 350+ clinical hours. Shifted at med/surg, DOU, PACU, postpartum and material management department.

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  IRVINE URGENT CARE

  May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Clinical Intern

  • Assisted medical workers at Irvine Urgent Care with tasks including taking in patients, taking vitals, replenishing supplies, organizing documents, preparing IV bags, and making phone calls. Completed 80+ clinical hours

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  UCI School of Biological Sciences

  Aug 2022 - Jun 2024

  This lab assistant job is at Dr. Schilling lab at UCI Department of Developmental and Cell Biology. The job duty contains lab animal husbandary, lab management, molecular biology experiments, and participation in developmental biology research using zebrafish model. Work 10-12 hours per week in Dr. Mei Kong’s lab with a focus on the role of glutamine in cancer metabolism. Specific project focuses on FN 14 pathway in colon cancer cachexia and alpha-ketoglutarate’s role in epigenetic regulation of Tnfrsf12a transcription. Assist with experiments including western blot, qRT-PCR, cell culture, tissue prep, and RNA isolation.

  • Lab Assistant

    Dec 2023 - Jun 2024

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
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  UCI International Center

  Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

  Graphic Design Intern

  • Design program and event flyers, online images and documents. • Prepare and distribute all necessary paperwork and marketing materials for on-campus events and campaigns.• Help professional staff in administration and research for new programs, and support campus-wide events.

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  American Professional Ambulance

  Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  Emergency Medical Technician

  Provide emergency treatments to patients. Drive and staff ambulance to ensure safe patient transport. Respond to BLS calls and maintain accurate documentation.

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  Emergency-1 Response, Inc.

  Aug 2023 - Jun 2024

  Emergency Medical Technician

  Provide high-quality emergency medical service at special events such as concerts, fairs, sport events as standby medical staff.

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  Shanghai Fudan Digital Medical Technology Co.Ltd

  Jul 2024 - now

  Quality Control Intern

  Perform tasks including document translation and organization, background research, chart editing, product testing, and other related work surrounding the quality control and manufacture of neurosurgical navigation products.