Christian Lucca on Balancing Research and Clinical Skills

Traumatic Brain Injury Research

My Life as A Research Assistant at Kessler Foundation Series: Christian Lucca on Balancing Research and Clinical Skills

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*** Originally recorded on March 29, 2016, updated August 5, 2020.***

*** Currently, Christian is a neuropsychology extern at Staten Island University Hospital.***

Welcome to our podcast series, “My Life As A Research Assistant”. This series is brought to you by Kessler Foundation, where we are changing the lives of people with disabilities.

Research assistants are on the front lines of our research studies—collecting data, conducting interviews, testing subjects—and are the face of Kessler Foundation to our research study participants. In 2020, Kessler Foundation was ranked among one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For and Best Places to Work in New Jersey (kesslerfoundation.org/press-release/…ork-new-jersey)!

Throughout this series, we’ll meet up with research assistants from our centers for mobility, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neuroscience and neuropsychology who have been with the Foundation for over a year, and some who are now senior research assistants, nurses, medical students, graduate students, and post docs, and those who applied their experience to other professions.

In this episode, I met up with Christian Lucca who worked as a research assistant in our Center for traumatic Brain Injury from 2015-2017, where he recruited participants for inpatient and outpatient traumatic brain injury studies; Collected and analyzed data from participants, including neuropsychological test scores; Ran experimental cognitive and motor interventions with volunteers in inpatient rehabilitation. Listen in as Christian talks to Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation about his experience at the foundation.

Read more about Christian Lucca

*** The sleep study mentioned in this podcast in no longer recruiting participants. We are however, recruiting for our “Motor Learning and Sleep in TBI“ study. To sign up, go to https://kesslerfoundation.org/research/studies/motor-learning-and-sleep-tbi .

For more about the Host: Joan Banks-Smith

*** The sleep study mentioned in this podcast in no longer recruiting participant. We are however, recruiting for our “Motor Learning and Sleep in TBI“ study. To sign up, go to https://kesslerfoundation.org/research/studies/motor-learning-and-sleep-tbi .

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This podcast was recorded on Friday, March 29, 2016 at 300 Executive Drive, West Orange, NJ and was edited and produced by Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation.

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