richard@richardqnguyen.com — +1 (425) 616-2199 — Greater Seattle Area
Professional experience
Medical assistant
Allegro Pediatrics—2024 December to present
- Prepare patients and families for provider and maintain flow
- Intake procedures, including vital signs, screenings, and standing lab/POCT orders
- Labs, including nasal/oral swabs, capillary sticks, and venipuncture
- Administer medications and vaccines
Student volunteer
Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC)—2023 January to 2023 August
- Pharmacy component student lead
- Fundraised for medical resources in rural Vietnamese communities
- Assisted medical professionals during a mobile clinic in rural Vietnam
Miscellaneous volunteering
- Volunteer at Tubman Center for Health & Freedom
- Vietnamese interpreter at the UW Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic and Seattle/King County Clinic
Research experience
Undergraduate research student
Lab for Early Auditory Perception (LEAP)—2023 March to 2024 December
- Developed and executed research questions based on infant and early childhood natural language environments
- Advised a high school intern on developing and implementing scientific questions, especially related to audio signal processing
- Assisted with data collection for an EEG study in college students
Undegraduate research intern
Kaeberlein Lab—2020 June to 2023 August
- With my mentor, designed and executed proteostasis experiments using the animal model C. elegans
- Methods included SDS-PAGE and WormBot life/healthspan assessment
Teaching experience
Peer facilitator
University of Washington—2024 Spring to Fall
- Neuroscience undergraduate major admissions committee member
- NEUSCI 440: Computational analysis of neural data
- Assisted in instruction
- NEUSCI302: Introduction to systems neuroscience
- Facilitated lab sections, including explaining lab concepts, data collection, and analysis
- BIOL459: Developmental neurobiology
- Co-led discussion sections
- Wrote questions based on scientific literature
Other experience
Onsite helper
Cedarcrest construction—per diem
Crew member
Baskin Robbins—2015 March to 2020 December
Martial arts instructor
True Martial Arts—2018 January to 2020 November
Education
University of Washington
BS in Neuroscience with Departmental Honors—2021 Fall to 2024 Spring Thesis: Bilingual Babies and Babbling Beats BA in Linguistics—2021 Fall to 2024 Spring
Interlake Senior High School
IB Diploma—2017 Fall to 2021 Spring
Honors and awards
Mary Gates Research Scholarship
2024 Winter to Spring Awarded based on original research done at LEAP
DeEtte McAuslan Stuart Scholarship
2021 Fall to 2024 Spring Awarded for merit and an argumentative essay of a current constitutional controversy
Publications
Molière, A., Park, J. Y. C., Goyala, A., Vayndorf, E. M., Zhang, B., Hsiung, K. C., Jung, Y., Kwon, S., Statzer, C., Meyer, D., Nguyen, R., Chadwick, J., Thompson, M. A., Schumacher, B., Lee, S. V., Essmann, C. L., MacArthur, M. R., Kaeberlein, M., David, D., Gems, D., … Ewald, C. Y. (2024). Improved resilience and proteostasis mediate longevity upon DAF-2 degradation in old age. GeroScience, 46(5), 5015–5036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357–024–01232-x
Presentations
Poster presentations
Nguyen, R.Q., Zhao, T.C. (2024, May 17). Bilingual Babies and Babbling Beats: motor and domain-general effects of infant and early childhood language environments. [Poster presentation] University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA. Vayndorf, E., Pitt, J., Wu, J., *Chang, E., *Nguyen, R.Q., *Liang, A., *Ruan, R., & Kaeberlein, M. (2020). A robotic system for high-throughput automated lifespan and phenotyping analysis in C. elegans. Innovation in Aging, 4(Suppl 1), 886. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3270 (*contributed equally)
References
Emily Hendricks, MA—Clinic manager Allegro Pediatrics at Totem Lake EmilyHendricks@AllegroPediatrics.com Dr. Christina Zhao, PhD—Undergraduate research advisor Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at UW Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences at UW zhaotc@uw.edu Dr. Marti Bosma, PhD—Undergraduate professor Department of Biology at UW Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at UW martibee@uw.edu Dr. Elena Vayndorf, PhD—Undergraduate research advisor Department of Pathology at UW evayndorf@gmail.com