Leveraging Your myCHOICE Externship in Your Job Search
Monday, April 17, 2023, 5:30 – 6:30 PM CST
The goal of myCHOICE externships is to provide real-world experience in career fields postgraduate students are interested in. 95% of myCHOICE externs report that the externship influenced their career trajectory. Learning about the different paths, options, and realities of your career field is vital for empowering students, and a core principle behind the myCHOICE externships program. After participating in an externship, how can you use your experience to inform your job search? In this seminar, you will hear from professionals who studied and work in various science fields. They will share their experiences and tips on how their myCHOICE externship experiences helped shape and inform their job search.
Claire Stedden, PhD
Outreach & Communications Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Claire is an outreach specialist for a sustainable agriculture program run out of Erin Silva’s lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her main role in the position is science communication and writing. This includes developing resources for farmers and crop consultants based on the lab’s research and other topics of interest to organic farmers in the upper Midwest. She also writes manuscripts for scientific journals, plans outreach events, and helps set the direction for the outreach program. Prior to this, Claire was a Senior Medical Writer with Health Interactions, a Nucleus Global Company, based in San Francisco, CA. In that position, she developed manuscripts, posters, oral presentations, and medical education materials related to clinical trials and real world studies in the immunology space. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2019 where she studied collective cell migration in the lab of Sally Horne–Badovinac.
Anna Goddi, PhD
Life Sciences Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting
Anna received her PhD in Molecular Metabolism from the University of Chicago and now works in healthcare consulting. Throughout her PhD program, Anna engaged with myCHOICE through seminars and internship opportunities which allowed her to gain exposure to different consulting and biotech professions. In her current role at L.E.K. Consulting, she engages primarily with clients in the healthcare and biotech sectors to assess potential acquisition and growth strategies. This work draws heavily from skill sets developed during her PhD, including research, presentation (storytelling), and data analysis skills.
Tiffany Marchell, PhD
Biotechnology Equity Research Associate, William Blair
Tiffany Marchell, Ph.D., a research associate for biotechnology analyst Raju Prasad, Ph.D., joined William Blair in November 2020. Dr. Marchell has a B.A. in biochemistry from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Chicago with a focus on immunoengineering. She previously worked as a Gene Therapy GMP technician at Weill Cornell Medical College and as an intern at Aspire Capital.
David Arndt, PhD
Medical Science Liaison, Biogen
Dr. Arndt received his PhD in Psychology from Kansas State University and completed his postdoc at The University of Chicago. Throughout his graduate and postgraduate training, Dave published articles in both rodent and human literature and appreciated the additional experiences he gained at UChicago in the myCHOICE program. Since his time at UChicago, Dave has served in various industry capacities supporting medical communications and more recently in medical affairs in the areas of cardiac electrophysiology, nephrology, and neuropsychiatry. In his current role as medical science liaison, Dave communicates scientific and medical information to key medical experts in psychiatry across the Midwest.
Anna Dembo, PhD
Manager, Intellectual Property and Technology Development, Polsky Center at the University of Chicago
Anna Dembo is currently a manager of intellectual property and technology development at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. In her role, she manages patent filings and prosecution for a diverse portfolio of technologies, including diagnostics, antibodies, small molecules, and therapeutics. Anna is also responsible for assessing new technologies from intellectual property and commercial potential perspectives. She also participates in faculty outreach efforts. Prior to joining the Polsky Center, Anna was a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Geoffrey L. Greene, chair of the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago. She received her doctorate degree at the University of Chicago from the Committee on Cancer Biology. Anna’s research focused on evaluating the outgrowth of hormone receptor–positive breast cancer.
