Vincent J. Cleveland

·        Main point of contact in Rwanda for the Sustainable Household Energy Adoption in Rwanda (SHEAR) clinical trial.

·        Supervisor for a team of 16 Rwandan staff members, overseeing health and air quality measurements from 1600 study participants.

·        Trained four new Rwandan staff members in good clinical practice and bioethics.

·        Provided data management and quality assurance for multiple data sources including RedCap surveys, personal air quality meters, and spirometry measurements.

·        Developed a partnership with UNICEF and secured $15,000 of additional funding

·        Prepared summaries and progress updates for the Colorado based researchers.

·        Updated the three-year data collection schedule to keep the project within the funding timeline.

Provided regular training updates to maintain field team skills and data quality.

·        Collaborated with Siemens and NIH partners to maintain equipment for a cardiac biopsy investigation.

·        Designed benchtop testing protocols for investigating novel surgical grafts.

·        Investigated the feasibility of on-site nasal swab production for COVID-19 testing.

·        Developed methods for identifying cardiac biopsy positions using X-ray images.

·        Received $25,000 from the Board of Visitors of Children’s National for the purchase of equipment.

·        Developed methods for the analysis of MRI data generated by partners at the University of Chicago.

Co-author for 10 published journal articles

·        Study manager for the Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO) sepsis project at Phebe Hospital, Liberia.

·        Collaborated with Liberian and US Navy Internal Review Boards to address study design.

·        Trained laboratory staff to follow study procedures, including sample collection and processing.

·        Assisted laboratory management in developing and improving the Quality Management Systems.