Los Angeles, California, United States












I have actual prison experience, nothing violent or sexual, but I can play a pretty nasty criminal/lawyer/cop if need be. Nothing like having first person experience for these types of roles. Also, being that I am an actual biomedical researcher, I have very direct experiences with science and medicine.

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SCOTT R. YOUNGSTRAND
340 North Madison Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90004
(310) 430 - 8040
sryoungstrand@hotmail.com

EXPERIENCE

Implementing standardized procedures to insure maximum efficiency in technical and research fields involving laboratory procedures, pre-clinical drug studies and biochemical analysis. As a Laboratory Animal Technician, I prided myself on the exceptional care and
kindness that I provided the research animals under my care.


EDUCATION

BELMONT UNIVERSITY 1984 - 1985
Nashville, Tennessee
Major: Microbiology
Minor: Business/ Accounting

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY 1986 - 1988
Nashville, Tennessee
Major: Pre-Medicine, Microbiology
Minor: Business

MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1991
Miami, Florida
Major: Mortuary Science/ Funeral Service
Minor: None

EMPLOYMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 2008
Animal Care Facility
Los Angeles, Ca
Position: Animal Laboratory Technician

Duties: Daily husbandry of mice, rats and rabbits. Duties included changing bedding, watering, feeding and overall health evaluations. Also some experience in pairing, breeding and weaning rodents. Research support services as needed.

Cedars Sinai Medical Center 2007-2008
Department of Comparative Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Position: Animal Laboratory Technician I
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Duties: Daily husbandry of mice, rats, pigs, dogs and fish. Duties included changing bedding,
watering, feeding and overall health evaluations. Also some experience in pairing, breeding and weaning rodents. Research support services as needed.

University of Arizona College of Medicine 2006
Department of University Animal Care
Tucson, Arizona
Position: Senior Laboratory Animal Technician

Duties: Daily husbandry of primates, mice, rats, cats and dogs. Duties included changing bedding, watering, feeding and overall health evaluations. Also some experience in pairing, breeding and weaning rodents.

Taxolog, Inc. 2004
Tallahassee, Florida
Position: Drug Efficacy Specialist

Duties: Taxolog synthesizes the anti-cancer drug TAXOL. I tested variants of this drug on the NU/NU female mouse in order to determine its anti-tumor, anti-cancer efficacies. These studies were in preparation for FDA request for clinical trials. I also maintained cancer cell lines, primarily neuroblastomas

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1984 - 1990
Dept. of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neurosurgery
Nashville, Tennessee
Position: Research Assistant/ Primatologist

Duties: I began as laboratory technician for the Parkinson’s Disease Research Program. I was responsible for non-clinical drug studies in the dog and non-human primate neurological system. I performed neurosurgical procedures, surgical pathology, gross pathology, and biochemical analysis of various tissue and fluids using HPLC and LGC methods. In 1987 I was promoted to Primate Laboratory Manager. As manager of the laboratory, I maintained all laboratory records, inventory control, purchasing, budget control, quality assurance monitoring and control, and administrative duties. I was the liaison between the laboratory, university, state, federal and international regulatory agencies that oversee the use of animals in biomedical research. I coauthored several scientific research papers.

Position: Neurosurgical Research Assistant

Duties: Assisted with the development of neurosurgical procedures in the human patient for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s chorea.

Position: Coordinator for The Parkinson’s Disease Neurosurgical Projects

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Duties: Project Co-Coordinator for the eighteen patient participants in a study entitled “Adrenal Medullary Tissue Transplant to Caudate Nucleus in the Parkinsonian Patient”. I monitored subjects throughout the study. I collected surgical pathology specimen(s), spinal fluid and blood, for analysis. A major part of this responsibility involved the elimination of any possible variables
that might jeopardize the patient or the study. Vanderbilt-University was the Vanderbilt-University was the first academic institution in the United States to perform these experimental procedures.


Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1984 - 1986
Nashville, Tennessee
Dept. of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Position: Radiological Clerk/ Assistant

Duties: I Logged in requests for procedures, scheduled procedures, and performed billing.

Parkside Surgery Center 1984 - 1985
Nashville, Tennessee
Position: Surgical Scrub Technician

Duties: Preparation of surgical suite, assisted surgeon’s with various surgical procedures.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Primatologists past member
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science non certified active member
International Biopharmaceutical Association junior member
Florida Funeral Directors Association past member

PUBLICATIONS / ABSTRACTS

Selective Reversible Effects of Chronic Low Dose MPTP on Brain Catecholamine Neurons in the Rhesus Monkey, R.S. Burns, M.D., L.E. Baker, S.R. Youngstrand and M.H. Ebert, M.D.,
Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University. Presented at MPTP- Sardinia 88",
Degeneration and Regeneration Process in CNS, September 16 - 18, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy.

Contralateral Effects and Variable Pattern Of Damage Produced by Intracarotid Infusion of MPTP in the Dog, R.S. Burns, M.D., L.E. Baker, S.R. Youngstrand, and M.H. Ebert, M..D.
Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University. Presented at MPTP - Sardinia 88"Degeneration and Regeneration Process in CNS, September 16 - 18, 1988, Villasimius, Sardinia., Italy.

Adrenal Medullary Transplantation to the Caudate Nucleus in Parkinson’s Disease: Initial
Clinical Results in 18 Patients, George S. Allen, M.D., Ph.D.; Stanley Burns, M.D.; Noel B.
Tulipan, M.D.; Robert A. Parker, D.Sc.; Departments of Neurosurgery, Psychiatry,
Neuropsychiatry and Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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HONORS

Special mention, International Parkinson’s disease Symposium, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee. 1988

Television Interview, ABC’s 20/20, February 14, 1989, Nashville, Tennessee.

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