Kalyani Pillai

Bachelor's

Health Sciences, General

Public Health

College of William and Mary

Research Assistant, Professor Deschenes

- Looking at how aging and exercise training alters the rate of recovery of neuromuscular performance of male soleus muscle and how exercise training and aging might affect post-exercise recovery - Focused on digitizing, two-dimensional images of NMJs that were stored on the systems hard drive and later quantified with the Image Pro-Plus software - A minimum of 10 NMJs per muscle were quantified and measurements were averaged to represent synaptic morphology within that muscle - Volunteer - AT Home Health and Hospice Care - Provided patient-centered care with an emphasis on palliative care versus curative treatment by providing supportive services to patients and their families who are dealing with a terminal diagnosis - Medical Assistant - Loudoun Medical Group, Loudoun, VA - Worked as a medical assistant by supporting physician/practitioners by gathering patient medical history, taking and recording vital sign information, entering information in the clinic's computer data collector and occasionally assisting with minor, office-based procedures