Biography

Arianna Belcher is currently a Clinical Research Coordinator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. There, she works with a diverse group of clinicians and scientists who make up the research team of Dr Robert Gerszten, chief of cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is responsible for developing research protocols, enrolling patients from various areas of the hospital, and carrying out study activities for a multitude of clinical trials. At Mass General, she was a clinical research coordinator. She was a member of a research group looking at protein biomarkers for the heart and kidneys that could indicate damage after cardiac catherization. She was responsible for enrolling patients in the study, collecting, spinning, and aliquotting blood samples, as well data entry and other basic research assistant tasks such as organizing, labelling, and storing patient data and samples. She was also a lab technician for Mass General's Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), and primarily researched Alzheimer’s disease. She received her BS in behavioral neuroscience from Northeastern university after transferring from Stonehill College where she was studying neuroscience.