The Department welcomed Data Abstractor Mags Ramon, B.S., in November 2020 to its Epidemiology Research team. Mags is a North Carolina Lung Screening Registry (NC LSR) team member working under NC LSR Director Dr. Louise Henderson and Project Manager Lindsay Lane. As a Data Abstractor, Mags reviews lung screening radiology reports and abstracts data for the NC LSR.
Prior to joining UNC Department of Radiology, Mags worked as a research assistant for the UNC Park Lab, screening, consenting, and collecting data from patients for studies focused on supporting parents with cancer and their families. Mags earned their Associate’s in Science from Guilford Technical Community College in 2018. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2020 with a BS in Neuroscience and minor in Chemistry.
Mags notes: “My previous experience with data abstraction along with the continued support of co-workers has helped me transition to my new position as data abstractor during the pandemic.”
UNC Radiology welcomed Linda Fu, B.S., in November 2020 to its Contracts and Grants team as an Accounting Tech. Based out of UNC School of Medicine (SOM)’s Finance Service Center, Linda works for several SOM departments in this role, among them, UNC Radiology. On the Department’s Contracts and Grants team, Linda supports UNC Radiology’s awards management alongside Pre-Award Research Administrator Emily Gardner and Post-Award Accountant Karla Allen. For the Department of Radiology, Linda oversees the management of sponsored projects, complete account balance reports, project reconciliation, management of personnel effort and communication with UNC’s Office of Sponsored Research to ensure accuracy with project administration.
Prior to joining OSR in November 2020, Linda worked as an accountant at UNC Health for a year. Her educational background includes a B.S. in Business Administration from Appalachian State University, with a concentration in Accounting and Information Systems.
Linda notes: “I am looking forward to applying my accounting knowledge in fixed assets, leases and not-for-profits from UNC Health to my new role with the contracts and grants team in UNC Radiology.”