Gabriel Taylor

Detail-oriented pharmacy student seeking to secure a PGY1 residency position. Well-versed in the fundamentals of medication compounding and formulation, drug inventory management, and customer and patient records administration.

• Clerical Assistant, Student Episcopalian Ministry, Lived within the Student Episcopalian Ministry during Senior year of college. During this time, recurrent duties included preparing the chapel for Sunday service, assist in serving food to those in need, and counseling peers on matters regarding their faith. Was expected to welcome and serve anyone who visited the ministry regardless of their faith, gender, sex, socioeconomic status, etc.
• Clinic Vols School Chair, University of Tennessee, Acted as the school chairs for the Clinic Vols program at the University of Tennessee. The goal of the Clinic Vols program was to train university students in first aid so that they could spend at least one hour a week serving as the first aid station attendant at local elementary schools. First aid attendants were expected to assist the school nurse or teachers in providing students with first aid during the regular school day. Standard duties included cleaning and bandaging minor cuts and scrapes, ordering necessary first aid supplies for the nurse office, and assisting the school nurse with consoling distressed students. Additional duties for school chairs included scheduling fellow university students for their weekly shifts, acting as an intermediary between the elementary school and the university, and handling any unexpected emergencies or student no-shows.
• Leadership and Service Living and Learning Community, Was selected to join a leadership and volunteering centered community for the entirety of freshman year. Students in this community lived within the same dorm and spent the fall semester developing leadership skills and then used those skills during weekly community service events in the spring semester. Opportunities included working to help clean out local parks, acting as a "Big brother" to elementary and middle school students in low-socioeconomic areas, and arranging food drives for the hungry.
• Habitat for Humanity, Worked with other university students throughout undergraduate program to assist in building homes for our neighbors in lower socioeconomic areas. Responsibilities while at a build included providing manual labor to assist in construction, assisting build leads with managing build materials, and coordinating effective build strategies with new team members each week.

• Awarded a $5,000 stipend to participate in a student research fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under the guidance of Dr. Brenden Frett.

• theoretical in a 10-Week student research fellowship at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The fellowship was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Brenden Frett with the primary focus of the lab surrounding novel drug synthesis. My role at this research fellowship was to assist Dr. Frett and others in the laboratory write out theoretical experiments before then proceeding to try and synthesize products using those experiments. This fellowship required a strong foundational understanding of both organic and physical chemistry as well as a baseline understanding of many of the different techniques utilized within a drug synthesis lab, such as mass spectroscopy.

Supervised Loftus-Palmer Replication Study, University of Tennessee, Lead a student research project under the guidance of Dr. Rajan Mahadevan, Ph.D. The goal of this study was to replicate and potentially elaborate upon the findings notated in the famous 1974 "Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction" study conducted by Elizabeth Loftus. Responsibilities during this research project included developing a testable hypothesis with other students, distributing responsibilities equally across members of the research group, obtaining and properly organizing informed consent documentation for all volunteers, and using APA format to create a research paper documenting results.

Dr. Damon Schranz, D.O., Was presented the opportunity to shadow a Dr. Damon Schranz, D.O. for 40 hours at their family medicine practice. During this preceptorship, Dr. Schranz demonstrated how practical knowledge, interpersonal skills, and appropriate bedside manner were all equally critical to providing optimal care to patients in any medical setting.