Research Administrator II

Research Interests: 
Research Compliance
Data Analysis and Management
Building Research Databases
Managing Clinical Research

Biography

Aish's work at the Center for Regenerative Medicine focuses on regulatory compliance and acting as team lead for various studies. She is currently focusing on the management of ultrasound-based research and trials working from study start-up to study closeouts. Aish also has expertise in data management and building research data bases. She also helps manage other sites working with the Center for Regenerative Medicine in this research.

Aish is a trained engineer with a master's in biomedical engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Aish has close to 10+ years of experience working in clinical research (drugs and devices) from experimental design to data analysis, to building physiological models and with the regulatory compliance of the studies. Aish's research at Madison, Wisconsin mainly focused on modelling of electrical characteristic of the skin. For three years, Aish was involved in working on longitudinal drug trials using fMRI to test drug efficacy in patients with Alzheimer's at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school in Boston.  Her main work focused on image processing and Region of Interest analysis of fMRI brain images and how the changes in the fMRI imaging tracked longitudinally with neurophysiological test scores.

Aish loves to cook and travel. She organizes fundraisers to raise money for homeless shelters in Portland, Oregon and various other good causes including supporting kids with disabilities.