Kelly Finno

Majoring in Biomedical Sciences
Geisinger College of Health Sciences
From Perkasie, PA

Continuing my education has led me to Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine to pursue a Master's in Biomedical Sciences. My education has been supplemented by my prior experience in Phase IIIB clinical trials, my current role as a Drug Safety Associate and further enhanced by my 6+ years of clinical experience as an inpatient/outpatient phlebotomist. I engage in extracurriculars that have a positive impact on my community and specifically seek out organizations with patient-focused and community service based missions. Please be sure to check out my volunteer experience, uploaded under the Resume & Links page.

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Education

The University of Scranton
Geisinger College of Health Sciences
Bucks County Community College
Harcum College

Kelly in the News

Students at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's Doylestown campus elect Kelly Finno of Perkasie to leadership position

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's (GCSOM) Doylestown campus recently held an election for Graduate Student Council (GSC). Kelly Finno of Perkasie was elected to the poistion of Library an...

November, 13 2019 - Verified by Geisinger College of Health Sciences

Achievements Added by Kelly

Kelly Finno was recognized for earning a spot on an honors list

Most Outstanding Student Award. This was presented to me upon completion of the Fire Science program at BCCC. After completion, I was eligible to sit for the Fire I exam.

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Work Experience

Medical Technologist at FlowMetrics Inc.

I work as a technician in the FlowMetrics Mobile COVID testing lab running COVID-19 nasal swabs on the BD Veritor machine. At one location, this role consisted of receiving the swabs, confirming labeling of the sample, preparing the solution (mixing swab with reagent), and loading the sample to the BD Veritor. I also assisted patients in collection of samples, i.e. providing guidance on how to properly collect the sample.

https://6abc.com/neumann-university-covid-19-test-move-in-day-college-students-coronavirus-pandemic/9685282/

January 2021 - Present

Drug Safety Associate at PRA Health Sciences

January 2016 - Present

Phlebotomist at Doylestown Health

As a phlebotomist, tasks included: reviewing scripts, reviewing input by registration, confirming patient identity, performing venipuncture or capillary draw, confirming steady state of patient to leave.

The role of venipuncture also included knowledge of tubes necessary for which blood tests and the skill of blood draw through venipuncture and capillary draw. Blood draws were performed on infants through elderly patients.

April 2014 - June 2020

Site Management Associate at PRA Health Sciences

During my role as a Site Management Associate, I remotely managed about 50 clinical sites to ensure adherence to a Phase IIIB clinical trial, investigating the cardiovascular outcomes by way of recording MACE (major adverse cardiac events). I was responsible to ensure that safety events were being reported properly, patient visits were occurring as per the protocol, medication compliance, including confirmation that the sites had enough medication for their upcoming patient visits. I also was in regular contact with the study coordinator or study physician. Beyond the clinical site management aspect, I became familiar with submitting protocol deviations directly with the sites' IRBs (Institutional Review Boards). I was expected to generate a report following each remote clinical visit to capture the important factors mentioned above. I was also expected to trigger sites for on-site visits by CRAs (Clinical Research Associates) due to high-risk activities.

April 2014 - January 2016

Projects + Publications

Use of Cannabidiol in the Treatment of Epilepsy: Efficacy and Security in Clinical Trials

My partner and I presented a review of different clinical trials that use CBD oil in conjunction with common anti-epileptic drugs in the treatment of severe treatment-resistant epilepsy through an overview of recent literature and clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov

Presentations

Traumatic Brain Injury

Our goal was to investigate temporal relationship between TBI and aggressive behavior, measured by pre-injury incarceration and post-injury arrest. We used a cross-sectional study design and a secondary data analysis.

Presentations

Case study on Gelatinous drop-like dystrophy (GDLD)

This goal of this assignment was for students to investigate a rare disease to learn about the gene(s) involved, presentation of disease (including but not limited to age, family history, lab work as applicable). As students, we had to create a possible pedigree for selected disease and come up with our own case study, explaining how the patient presented and how the diagnosis was made.

Classwork

One Community Honor Roll

About 7 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a classmate and I collaborated to assemble "goodie bags" for the laboratory technicians at Doylestown Health in Doylestown, PA. The goodie bags included water, tea, Emergen-C, applesauce, mandarin oranges, nut snack-pack and a handwritten thank you note. The purpose was to give the laboratory technicians a little boost, with healthy and immune-supportive snacks, and to let them know that their hard work is appreciated especially during this time.

Articles

Protocadherin-15 and its implication in disease

A requirement of the Independent Study course I completed was to select a protein and investigate disease(s) caused by truncated or missing protein. I selected protocadherin-15. Throughout the semester, I went through multiple organ systems to consider histology, genetics, and physiology. In addition, diseases were incorporated as applicable. Resources used to complete these requirements: lectures from Histology II, Histology atlases from Histology II, Physiology textbook, Genetics textbooks, Cell biology textbook, The Human Protein Atlas website, Protein Bank website, Virtual Molecular Model Kit website, Molecular Machinery website.

Classwork

Curriculum Vitae

Resume