-: My name is Jennifer Offenbacher-Orosz
and I'm a chemist at NAMSA.
It's based in Northwood, Ohio.
They test medical devices, anything.
They have in vivo, and in vitro,
so in the animal and with cell lines,
and they also do chemical characterization
which is some what of a new avenue
in medical device testing.
They put the medical device, whatever it is,
it can be a bandage,
it can be an implant like a hip replacement,
and they'll put that in a solvent
and they'll extract it
for a certain length of time,
under certain conditions,
temperature, agitation, no agitation,
and then they'll take that extract
and then they analyze it.
They can analyze it with UPLC,
UPLC/MS where they're going to look
at UV responses as well as mass spec.
They're going to look at GC-MS
which is volatiles and their mass.
Right now I'm in a transitioning period
so I started off running the instrument,
I'm now moving up to the interpretation.
So until we find somebody to help out
down in instrumentation,
I'm juggling both at the moment.
If you're full-time either way,
especially with instrumentation,
you're working on 20 different studies
at the same time,
'cause you're sample prepping,
you're running the instruments
and then you're going to give that data
to someone else for them to figure out
what the compound is.
Usually when you're interpreting
you're more focused on one study at a time.
Then you can kind of see a pattern
and really pick up the composition
of that one medical device,
but there are times when priorities happen
and a little project gets
added into your workload
'cause this needs done right away.
Of course that happens, but for mostly yeah,
when you're interpreting it's very much
get this one done,
it doesn't matter how long it takes.