Ms. Mandy McBroom is an epidemiologist who currently serves as research coordinator and co-investigator of several clinical research projects in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  Her current projects spans regional block studies, an ICU mobility study, sponsored drug/device studies, drug non-inferiority studies, as well as data management/analysis for deep sternal wound infection surveillance, MPOG and Society for Thoracic Surgeons data, and the Transfers of Care project.  Since 2014, she has worked as a freelance medical writer with SAGE, EBSCO, and Golson media, as well as biostatistician.  Before her work in clinical research, she worked as lead junior scientist on flagship projects determining the structure of the acid-sensing ion channel, human voltage-gated ion channel, and the homomeric and heteromeric 5-HT3 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 2010-2014.  As part of her graduate training, she worked at the Ministry of Health in Nakuru, Kenya, in the summer of 2006, investigating the effectiveness of their newly merged TB/HIV surveillance program, and interned at the Tarrant County Department of Public Health (2006-2007), working on travel health and food-borne illness cases in the Department of Epidemiology.  She worked as lead epidemiologist on a project investigating volatile organic compound exposures of residents and oil field workers in San Angelo, Texas in 2012.  Ms. McBroom earned her bachelor of science degree in biology at Texas Wesleyan University in 2003 and a master of public health degree in both biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in 2009.  Her graduate thesis investigated the effectiveness of oral suppression in high risk prosthetic joint infections (TKA). 

Ms. McBroom's current research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, aviation safety, drug design through elucidation of receptor structures involved with disease pathways in infectious diseases (e.g., hemorrhagic fever and parasitic diseases), and the use of biotoxins (i.e., psalmotoxin) to treat pain related to acid-sensing ion channel activation.  Her hobbies include aviation, amateur meteorology (relating to aviation), linguistics, and music.