Nathan Burstedt

Experience

Americorps VISTA

Maliheh Free Clinic | July 2016 – July 2017

For one year between medical school and undergrad I worked full time at the Maliheh Free Clinic through the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Americorps program. I had various responsibilities, including managing our EMR, recruiting and training new volunteers, writing protocols for clinic procedures, and assisting with clinic operations, especially interpreting for Spanish-speaking patients.

Zip Line Guide

Sundance Mountain Resort | May 2016 –March 2017

Guiding guests on private high-speed zip line tours.  Training, loading, and unloading guests, performing equipment inspections.

Family Support Professional

RISE Inc. Orem, UT | December 2013 –December 2014

Worked with one on one with individuals who have special needs to achieve goals and learn necessary life skills. Received training on the treatment plans for clients and helped them to achieve the behavioral changes they needed in order to live happily.

Research Assistant –Western Blot

BYU Dept. of Physiology and Developmental Biology | December 2013-December 2015

During undergraduate training at Brigham Young University I was a lab assistant in the physiology department for Dr. Paul Reynolds. We were investigating the effect of cigarette smoke on the inflammatory pathway in a rat model. The principal proteins that we studied were the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) and the Claudin family, especially Claudin 6. 

My main responsibility was immunoblotting (western blots) occasionally running PCR and ELISA when needed for specific experiments. I also presented articles and participated in discussions during weekly journal club meetings. I was named as an author on one abstract for data that I had collected through western blotting of tissue samples. Citation is noted below

Education

HCA Kansas City

Internal Medicine Residency

Class of 2025

Loyola University Chicago

Internal Medicine Preliminary Year

Class of 2022

Loyola University Chicago 

Stritch School of Medicine 

Class of 2021

Brigham Young University

BS Physiology and Developmental Biology

Class of 2016           GPA: 3.76

Research/Presentations

Abstracts

Joshua B Lewis, Jared Bodine, Dallin Milner, Adam Lewis, Todd Dunaway, Kaleb Egbert, Scott Albright, Brigham Merrill, Troy Monson, Mark Watson, Nathan Burstedt, Quinn Smith, Jason Gassman, Tyson Jergensen, Bryan Chavarria, Dallin Broberg, Daniel Thomas, Juan Arroyo, and Paul R Reynolds“Altered Inflammatory Responses In Tobacco Smoke-Exposed Mice That Over-Express The Tight Junctional Protein Claudin-6” The FASEB Journal 2016 30:1_supplement, 305.12-305.12, PMID: 27763528, Link

QI Relaxed Target Glucose Management in ICU

Ongoing project to change sliding scale targets in the Overland Park Regional Medical Center ICU to align with society guidelines for 140-180.

Statin Misconceptions in an Underserved Community

Investigating the efficacy of an educational intervention on perceptions, hesitations, and knowledge of Statin drugs for patients in the Access to Care clinic. Working with Dr. Mary Eguia as principle investigator.

Artificial Intelligence

Under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Gaynes, we collaborated with computer science and information researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago to model possible artificial intelligence strategies for data mining and meta-analysis of macular degeneration literature. My main responsibility was article scraping and analysis which was used by UIC in order to perform relational topic modelling. Artificial intelligence is still in the infant stage but with more investigation there is potential to track research trends over time and find connections between articles with similar conclusions and results. There were no publications that resulted from the work that we did with UIC, however the master’s student that I worked with, Siddhesh Kishor Chavan, did use the data to complete his master’s thesis titled “Topic modelling and clustering of documents related to age-related macular degeneration” in 2018

Informal Presentations

• "Delirium and the Hospital Environment" Delirium and the Hospital Environmen

• "Pediatric Lead Toxicity" Pediatric Lead Toxicity

• “Physiology of Extra-Thoracic Obstruction Caused by Thyroid Mass”  Anesthesiology Medical Student Preceptor Meeting. April 16, 2018 Slides

• "Capacity Evaluation in the Context of Schizophrenia" Loyola Psychiatry Consult Liaison Case Conference. August 2nd, 2019 Capacity Evaluation in the context of Schizophrenia

• "Hand Sanitizer Toxic Ingestion" September 18th, 2020

• "Esophageal Impaction" September 15th, 2020

• "Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis" Case Presentation. April 3rd, 2023

• "Treatment of Treatment and Outcomes of Inpatient Hypertension Among Adults With Noncardiac Admissions" Journal Club. March 11, 2024

• "Transitioning to becoming a Senior Resident" June, 2024

• "Financial Education for Residents" Internal Medicine department, Multiple lectures 2024

• "Identifying Cardiac Devices on Chest radiographs" Internal Medicine Department October 21, 2024

Global Health

Community and Global Health Honors Program

A four-year curricular foundation for service learning at the Stritch School of Medicine for students that plan to incorporate global health into their career. The program includes a scholarly project, 30+ hours of supplementary lectures and 14+ hours of field experience, such as international away Rotations and local volunteering.

Ignation Service Immersion - Centro Medico Humberto Para, Bolivia

Two week clinical experience at the Centro Medico Humberto Para in Palacios Bolivia. 

Statin Misconceptions in an Underserved Community

Studying the efficacy of and educational intervention on underserved communities. More info available above

Americorps VISTA 

Volunteered 40+ hours per week as a Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) for the Maliheh Free Clinic in Salt Lake City, UT. 

Spanish Medical Interpreting

Volunteered as an Interpreter to help patients communicate with their providers. I was involved in project both in the United States as well as several mission trips to Guatemala with an Organization called Humanitize Expeditions.

Care for Friends

Free meals and medical education for the homeless and disadvantaged in Chicago.

Other Projects/Volunteering

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I have been volunteering with my church consistently for the past 10 years. Notably, I spent two years (2011-2013) on a full-time mission in South America where I organized meetings, taught lessons, and provided counseling. Since returning to the United States I have held various roles in my local congregations including working as a clerk/secretary and teaching Sunday School Lessons. Currently I help organize activities and service projects for a downtown Chicago congregation.

Eagle Scout Award

Received the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America after 100's of hours of education, skill-building and service. Led as troop leader for several years and organized 40 volunteers to construct an amphitheater in a local nature preserve for educational presentations.

Medicus Podcast

Founded a podcast for medical students and healthcare providers discussing current events, highlighting outstanding physicians, and other hot topics in medicine. I plan episodes, interview guests, and oversee aspects of administration such as finances and managing our team of 10 student producers. You can find more info at MedicusPodcast.com

Episode Credits:

Episode 05 | Undocumented Physicians

Episode 11 | Should Step 1 Be Pass/Fail?

Episode 16 | The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Islamophobia - Amal Kassir

Episode 17 | Why Would a Physician Get an MBA?

Episode 18 | Summing up the USMLE Step 1

Episode 21 | Community Health: How Free Clinics Provide for Low-Income Individuals

Episode 22 | MS4 Perspective: Ophthalmology

Episode 28 | Women Leaders in Medicine - Dr. Shikha Jain

Episode 29 | Doing a one-year fellowship at a rural Bolivian clinic - Megha Srivastava, Andrea Escobar

Episode 31 | Dying with Dignity - A Discussion on Palliative Medicine with Dr. Aziz Ansari

Episode 39 | What happens if you don’t match? SOAP - Dr. Liza Brecher