Education * UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY, Newark, NJ Currently enrolled in Masters of Public Health core courses

(August 2010-Present ) * MARIST COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, NY Bachelor of Science, May 2009 Major: Biomedical Sciences Minor: Psychology Employment & Related Experience SENIOR LABORATORY TECHNICIAN, NEUROPHYSIOLOGY LAB, HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL, WEST HA VERSTRAW, NY (June 2009-Present) * Conduct research sessions to discover a new neurophysiological-based rehabilit ation therapy by way of electrical stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimula tion to improve gait after CNS damage. * Work as a liaison between doctors, patients, and others; qualify patients and set-up schedules for the study, communicate concepts to patients and industry pe rsonnel to facilitate understanding of the study. * Present and demonstrate research and data to students, faculty, and others in the industry at conferences and daily discussions. * Manage, collect, and organize data and documentation regarding research develo pment, procedures, and protocol. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE INTERN, SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL &VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CE NTER, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (January 2009-May 2009) * Observed medical professionals in Trauma and Medical centers in various depart ments. LABORATORY ASSISTANT, MICROBIOLOGY LAB, NORTHEAST LABORATORIES, BERLIN, CT (Summ er/Winter 2008) * Assisted in many quality control microbiological tests on food, pharmaceutical s, etc. Technical Skills * Microsoft Office, MATLAB, Axoscope, SigmaPlot, Vicon 3-D motion analysis syste m, EEG data collection Activities * Member of NCAA Division I Womens' Crew Team (August 2005- May 2008) Continuing Education * Society for Neuroscience, member * Neuroscience 2009- October 16-21, Chicago, Illinois o Attended convention to present data on common peroneal stimulation on chronic incomplete spinal cord people and attend meeting on reflex training. * Neuroscience 2010- November 13-17, San Diego, California o Attended convention to present data on transcranial magnetic stimulation on ch ronic incomplete spinal cord injured people and to attend meeting on reflex trai ning. * NIH Office of Human Subjects Research Certification- July 2009 Publications In Press: "Repetitive common peroneal nerve stimulation increases ankle dorsiflexor motor evoked potentials in incomplete spinal cord lesions" Aiko K. Thompson, BradonLapallo, Michael Duffield, Briana M. Abel, and Fern Pome rantz Abstracts Abstracts for posters that were presented at Neuroscience Conventions in 2009 an d 2010 1. Operant up-conditioning of the ankle dorsiflexor motor evoked potential in pe ople with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury B.Abel, F. Pomerantz, E. DeFrancesco, S.W. Lichtman, A.K. Thompson 2. Soleus H-reflex modulation during locomotion in people with chronic incomplet e spinal cord injury A. Thompson, B.M. Abel, J.R. Wolpaw 3. Operant down conditioning of the soleus H-reflex in people with spasticity du e to chronic incomplete spinal cord injury

F.R. Pomerantz, J.R. Wolpaw, S.W.Lichtman, B.M. Abel, E. DeFrancesco , A.K.Thompson 4. Operant down-conditioning of soleus H-reflex in humans: effects on synergist muscles Y. Makihara, A.K. Thompson, B.M. Abel, R.L. Segal 5. Effects of operant conditioning of soleus H-reflex on locomotion R. L. Segal, Y. Makihara, B.M. Abel, A.K. Thompson 6. Operant down-conditioning of soleus H-relfex in spastic subjects after incomp lete spinal cord injury F Pomerantz, JR Wolpaw, BM Abel, SW Lichtman, E DeFrancesco, AK Thompson 7. Operant conditioning of motor evoked potentials to transcranial magnetic stim ulation in people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury AK Thompson, BM Abel, E DeFrancesco, SW Lichtman, F Pomerantz 8. Repetitive common peroneal stimulation increases ankle dorsiflexor motor evok ed potentials in people with incomplete spinal cord injury BM Abel, L Tenteromano, M Duffield, B Lapallo, F Pomerantz, AK Thompson