Professional Experience
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Undergraduate Research Assistant- UF Florida Recovery Center Research Lab
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Performed patient health assessments and data scoring/management in addition to developing direct patient interaction skills.​
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Participated in literature reviews and journal clubs, furthering my professional communication abilities.
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SURF/REU 2024 Summer Intern- The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology.
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Worked with animal models and neuroimaging techniques to study decision-making in mice.
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Developed a background in applications of reinforcement learning models, neural networks, and other machine learning algorithms in behavior analysis​
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​Patient Volunteer- Bread & Roses
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​Prior experience with patient interaction and data management as a volunteer at Bread & Roses, a local women’s reproductive health clinic.
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Presentations
Simran Lamba, Vaibhav Dhyani, Adriana Amrein Almira, Ryoma Hattori. “Predictive Modeling of Decision-Making in Mouse Virtual Reality Behavior Task.”
a. Poster presentation at 2024 UF Scripps Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Poster Symposium.
b. Recipient of Top 3 Presenters Travel Award
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Simran Lamba, Apollonia E. Lysandrou, Ben Phalin, Jason Hunt, Laurie Solomon, Amanda Janner, Kent Mathias, Scott Teitelbaum, & Ben Lewis. “Addiction and Patient Care: A Novel Instrument to Assess Attitudes and their Change Across Treatment Among Impaired Professionals.”
a. Poster presentation at 2024 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference.
b. Presented poster at 2024 Center of Undergraduate Research Symposium and 2024 Center for Addiction Research & Education Symposium.
c. Accepted for presentation at 2024 Federation of State Physician Health Programs Annual Education Conference as second author.