Silvia Park started working as a clinical research coordinator for the PositiveLinks (PL) DC Cohort and CARRII studies at the Center for Behavioral Health & Technology in December 2023. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Russian language and literature and anthropology from James Madison University. Additionally, she completed a health information management certificate from PVCC in 2016 and started working as a coding and billing specialist at the University of Virginia.
In 2018, she became a donor in a uterine transplant clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center, hoping that this research would lead to the potential for trans women to become pregnant. This experience motivated her to change careers and become a clinical research coordinator, combining her communication skills with her desire to contribute to medical knowledge and help others. In early 2019, she began working as a CRC in Hematology/Oncology, at the UVA Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center. During her time there, she coordinated Multiple Myeloma and Chronic Lymphocytic Lymphoma trials. Later, she joined Charlottesville Medical Research as a coordinator, and after obtaining her CCRC from ACRP, she became the Clinical Research Manager, overseeing a team of CRCs and research assistants.
Silvia grew up in New York State, and her parents encouraged her love of language and culture. Her mother is a native Italian and her father is from New York. She has studied Russian, German, Latin, Italian, and Spanish in the classroom, plus some Japanese, Mandarin, and Arabic, and is currently learning Portuguese independently. She also enjoys long-distance running, gardening with native plants, reading, volunteering, working on crochet projects (a skill picked up after the COVID-19 pandemic began), and traveling. One of her most recent adventures was hiking Mount Etna in Sicily with her husband.