WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.350 My name is Jennifer Offenbacher-Orosz 2 00:00:02.350 --> 00:00:04.900 and I'm a chemist at NAMSA. 3 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:07.100 It's based in Northwood, Ohio. 4 00:00:07.100 --> 00:00:09.560 line:15% They test medical devices, anything. 5 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:12.110 line:15% They have in vivo, and in vitro, 6 00:00:12.110 --> 00:00:15.820 line:15% so in the animal and with cell lines, 7 00:00:15.820 --> 00:00:17.870 line:15% and they also do chemical characterization 8 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:21.120 which is some what of a new avenue 9 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:22.870 in medical device testing. 10 00:00:22.870 --> 00:00:24.980 They put the medical device, whatever it is, 11 00:00:24.980 --> 00:00:26.180 it can be a bandage, 12 00:00:26.180 --> 00:00:31.160 line:15% it can be an implant like a hip replacement, 13 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.740 line:15% and they'll put that in a solvent 14 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:35.020 line:15% and they'll extract it 15 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:36.680 line:15% for a certain length of time, 16 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:37.810 under certain conditions, 17 00:00:37.810 --> 00:00:40.940 temperature, agitation, no agitation, 18 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:42.890 and then they'll take that extract 19 00:00:42.890 --> 00:00:44.130 and then they analyze it. 20 00:00:44.130 --> 00:00:46.803 They can analyze it with UPLC, 21 00:00:49.260 --> 00:00:51.060 line:15% UPLC/MS where they're going to look 22 00:00:51.060 --> 00:00:54.710 line:15% at UV responses as well as mass spec. 23 00:00:54.710 --> 00:00:57.420 line:15% They're going to look at GC-MS 24 00:00:57.420 --> 00:01:01.630 line:15% which is volatiles and their mass. 25 00:01:01.630 --> 00:01:03.290 Right now I'm in a transitioning period 26 00:01:03.290 --> 00:01:05.560 so I started off running the instrument, 27 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:07.670 I'm now moving up to the interpretation. 28 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:09.970 So until we find somebody to help out 29 00:01:09.970 --> 00:01:11.170 down in instrumentation, 30 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:13.463 I'm juggling both at the moment. 31 00:01:14.778 --> 00:01:17.950 If you're full-time either way, 32 00:01:17.950 --> 00:01:19.300 especially with instrumentation, 33 00:01:19.300 --> 00:01:23.390 line:15% you're working on 20 different studies 34 00:01:23.390 --> 00:01:24.650 line:15% at the same time, 35 00:01:24.650 --> 00:01:25.850 line:15% 'cause you're sample prepping, 36 00:01:25.850 --> 00:01:27.170 line:15% you're running the instruments 37 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:28.900 line:15% and then you're going to give that data 38 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:30.950 line:15% to someone else for them to figure out 39 00:01:30.950 --> 00:01:32.173 what the compound is. 40 00:01:33.110 --> 00:01:34.530 Usually when you're interpreting 41 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:37.757 you're more focused on one study at a time. 42 00:01:37.757 --> 00:01:40.460 Then you can kind of see a pattern 43 00:01:40.460 --> 00:01:42.260 and really pick up the composition 44 00:01:42.260 --> 00:01:44.030 of that one medical device, 45 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:46.630 but there are times when priorities happen 46 00:01:46.630 --> 00:01:49.010 and a little project gets 47 00:01:51.350 --> 00:01:52.940 line:15% added into your workload 48 00:01:52.940 --> 00:01:55.040 line:15% 'cause this needs done right away. 49 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.171 line:15% Of course that happens, but for mostly yeah, 50 00:01:57.171 --> 00:02:00.130 line:15% when you're interpreting it's very much 51 00:02:00.130 --> 00:02:01.200 get this one done, 52 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.000 it doesn't matter how long it takes.