Provided administrative services to uninsured and unhoused individuals in the SF Bay Area by coordinating patient care with providers and conducting referrals to other healthcare services. Shadowed healthcare providers and observing direct patient care.

As a medical scribe at Mend Urgent Care, I work closely with physicians and other providers in multiple branches of the urgent care setting to document patient history, physical exams, diagnoses, medication plans, lab reports, and physician referrals into the Experity DocuTap electronic medical record system.

I joined Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR) in January 2021. After becoming trained as a helpline volunteer and a sexual assault counselor, I provide immediate crisis support, education, and coping strategies to survivors and their loved ones over the phone. I also serve as a mandated reporter for child abuse, report human trafficking and immediate risks of suicide, and make referrals to emergency, medical, and legal facilities.

In my final year at UC Santa Cruz, my field study internship was held at the Homeless Persons' Health Project: one of three health clinics within the Health Services Agency of the County of Santa Cruz. Here, I worked with the Street Medicine – Integrated Behavioral Health team and the Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Manager to perform outreach at homeless encampment sites. I also co-facilitated MAT substance use recovery groups for homeless and previously incarcerated individuals, and provided direct client care coordination and referral into integrated behavioral health services.

As a staff mentor at the Stanford School of Medicine's Clinical Neuroscience Virtual Experience, I spent two summers directing groups of high school students through creating research-based innovations over 2-week periods that address a pressing need in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, clinical psychology, and other mental healthcare fields. I also moderated lectures given by Stanford SoM faculty members with specialties in neurosurgery, psychiatry, clinical psychology, and social work.

SAMAR is affiliated with Be the Match and serves to increase the number of South Asian bone marrow donors (a historically underrepresented group) on the national bone marrow registry. From 2015-2018, I organized 15 bone marrow stem cell recruitment drives and recruited 149 donors. I was named the NorCal Community Engagement Coordinator — High School Representative, and achieved the Girl Scout Gold Award through my work.