Clinical Research Manager
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

First UTSW job: Study coordinator.

Best part of my job: The opportunity to work with people from multifaceted cultural, educational, and social backgrounds.

Best memory: My best experience was working with an outstanding group of researchers, coordinators, and clinicians on a 10-year National Institutes of Health-sponsored hypertension clinical trial with African Americans. This trial exposed me to community-based recruitment and I experienced being part of a landmark trial.

How co-workers describe me: Kind and willing to help.

Recipe for success: The ability to listen. To be a good leader you must have the ability to listen to others and respect their viewpoints. In research, you have your basic scientists, clinical researchers, biostatisticians, study nurses, study coordinators, and many more people working together to achieve research goals. Good research is a collaboration based on a chain of constant communication. For this process to work, you must have the ability to listen and be part of a team!

What energizes me at work: Working with people who are excited about their jobs. It motivates me to reassess what I am doing and pushes me to do the best job I can do even when confronted with barriers.

Claim to fame: Just being easygoing in hard situations. Keeping a positive attitude.

Hobby: Writing.

Surprising fact: I am an introvert.