Gabriel Felix on Learning to Interact in a Clinical Setting

Traumatic Brain Injury Research

My Life As A Research Assistant: Gabriel Felix on Learning to Interact in a Clinical Setting

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*** Originally recorded on June 9, 2016, updated July 20, 2020. ***

*** Currently, Gabriel is a resident physician at Cambridge Health Alliance.***

Welcome to our podcast series, “My Life As A Research Assistant”. This series is brought to you by Kessler Foundation, where we are changing the lives of people with disabilities.

Research assistants are on the front lines of our research studies—collecting data, conducting interviews, testing subjects—and are the face of Kessler Foundation to our research study participants. In 2020, Kessler Foundation was ranked among one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For and Best Places to Work in New Jersey (kesslerfoundation.org/press-release/…ork-new-jersey)!

Throughout this series, we’ll meet up with research assistants from our centers for mobility, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neuroscience and neuropsychology who have been with the Foundation for over a year, and some who are now senior research assistants, nurses, medical students, graduate students, and post docs, and those who applied their experience to other professions.

In this episode, I met up with Gabriel Felix who worked as a research assistant in our Center for Traumatic Brain Injury Research where his primary focus was investigating treatments and outcomes to improve the lives of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors. Other research populations of interest included individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Stroke, and other acquired brain injuries. Responsibilities included recruiting inpatients and outpatients for research studies, obtaining informed consent, source documentation, data management and analysis, administering neuropsychological and psychometric tests, and assisting with grants and manuscripts. Currently, Dr. Felix is a Resident Physician at Cambridge Health Alliance. Listen in as Gabriel talks to Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation about his experience at the foundation.

Read more about Dr. Felix and host Joan Banks-Smith
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This podcast was recorded on, June 9, 2016 at 300 Executive Drive, West Orange, NJ and was edited and produced by Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation.

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