RJ Refuerzo
Lab Manager - Staff Research Associate II (Dr. Neeta Thakur, MD)
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRJ Refuerzo is a lab manager and Staff Research Associate with a decade of hands-on experience bridging clinical operations and translational research in pediatrics and infectious disease. Currently leading the PEARLS/CARE study at UCSF, he focuses on identifying resilience-promoting interventions for children with high adverse childhood experiences, blending rigorous study coordination with community-centered outreach. His background spans clinical lab diagnostics, time-resolved spectroscopy research on nitric oxide synthase, and frontline medical scribing—skills that give him a rare combination of bench technicality, patient-facing clinical workflow fluency, and regulatory compliance expertise. Based in South San Francisco and training as an MD candidate, he brings both lab leadership and a clinician’s perspective to designing studies that translate into measurable health outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Spanish, TagalogGithub contributions (2)
NeenjahCupcakes/neenjahcupcakes.github.io
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:81 commits, 13 PRs, 74 pushes in 12 days
RefuerzoCSE/projects
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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