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>> My name is Andrea Timashenka.

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I'm a Senior Attorney at the US
Department of Health and Human Services.

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So I have a pretty wide portfolio right now.

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I advise the office of the Surgeon General.

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I do some research integrity work.

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I do work in patient safety.

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I advise some graduate medical education
programs, a whole bunch of different stuff.

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As I think that's true of a lot of
people, every day is a little different,

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which is part of the fun part of my job, but
I tend to spend a lot of my day at my desk,

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on the phone, or writing emails, and then
scurrying between different meetings.

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So I basically usually field incoming
questions from different clients,

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and depending on if it's something I can respond
to immediately or if it's something that's going

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to take some research or I need to consult
with my team to get back with them,

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that's generally how I spend my day.

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For instance, with the Office of the Surgeon
General, that is an office that's looking

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to really be public facing and have a lot
of different events, so they really want

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to try to get the community involved.

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So one of their biggest questions is, you know,
this group or that group approached us, how --

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and there's different rules when you're in the
government about how you can work with people

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in the private sector, so they're coming,
saying, you know, is this in bounds?

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Is this out of bounds?

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How could we reach more people?

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When you're in the government, one of the ways
that they work with outside entities a lot

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on joint project would be a co-sponsorship,
and so I help them work together and working

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with the other group in figuring
out who's going to do what role

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and making sure everyone's doing it
in a way no one can get in trouble.