Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative
Shabnam Jafari, PhD has diverse work experience in various roles and industries. From 2012 to 2014, they worked as a Marketing Specialist at Pars Niktash. Following that, from 2014 to 2016, they served as a Graduate Student Researcher at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In 2016, they started working as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Davis, where they specialized in Chemistry/Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. During this time, they also held a role as a Keller Pathway Fellow at the University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management from 2019 to 2020. In 2019, Shabnam co-founded StarBio Diagnostics, where they continue to work. Lastly, they joined the Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative in 2020, initially as a Collaborations Manager (Business Development), and later promoted to the role of Senior Collaborations Manager (Business Development) in 2022.
Shabnam Jafari, PhD, obtained their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Chemistry from Sharif University of Technology from 2008 to 2012. Shabnam then pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Organic Chemistry at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 2014 to 2016. Continuing their education, they earned their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Chemistry-Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine from the University of California, Davis from 2016 to 2020.
In addition to their formal education, Shabnam Jafari has obtained several certifications to enhance their skills and knowledge. Shabnam received certifications in Lean Agile Whitebelt from Lean Sensei International in July 2022, GCP for Clinical Trials with Investigational Drugs and Biologics (ICH Focus) from the CITI Program in October 2021, Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions, Prepare Data for Exploration, and Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere from Coursera in August and July 2021. Furthermore, they acquired certifications in Finance Foundations from LinkedIn in December 2020, Drug Development from Coursera in August 2020, and The Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health, with Barton Poulson from LinkedIn in April 2020. Shabnam Jafari also holds certifications in Project Management Essentials Certified (PMEC)™ from the Management and Strategy Institute in November 2019, Communication Foundations, Creative Thinking, Leadership: Practical Skills, Project Management Foundations, and Thinking Like a Leader (2013) from LinkedIn in May and April 2019 respectively.
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Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative
A 501C(3) charitable organization, Quantum Leap was established in 2005 as a collaboration between medical researchers at University of California, San Francisco and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Our mission is to integrate high-impact research with clinical processes and systems technology, resulting in improved data management and information systems, greater access to clinical trial matching and sponsorship, and greater benefit to providers, patients and researchers. Our goal is to improve and save lives. The founders of Quantum Leap recognize that good ideas and research projects in a University setting were often “orphaned” at the end of a research project. These efforts were frequently left with no funds or organizational structure to adequately engage clinical providers and ultimately benefit patient care. In addition, the intellectual property often created as part of these research endeavors remain untapped and undeveloped. Modeled after Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture with an added social value objective, our social-entrepreneurial model embodies: + Identifying clinical and research efforts with a potential for high impact + Providing financial and managerial assistance + Forming organizations and management teams to grow proven ideas into products + Securing funding in stages as efforts mature + Creating strategic partnerships committed to developing high-value healthcare services and products We support the development and implementation of innovative ways to deliver better, less costly healthcare. We are committed to establishing unique collaborations across the medical, technology and bioscience industries: all necessary components to accelerate healthcare research into the marketplace. Our efforts focus on quality-of-care and quality-of-life issues, and to create initiatives that foster excellent clinical practices using quality improvement disciplines with a strong patient-centric focus.