Rachel Simon, R.N., BSN
Clinical Research Coordinator

Rachel earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from George Mason University in 2004.  She joined the Thoracic-Cardiovascular Post-Operative Intensive Care Unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center in July 2004.  In this position, she advanced to a Clinician III, acted as the Quality Improvement Coordinator, and was a member of the Thoracic and Cardiac Quality Service Team.  She joined the STAC team in January 2011.  Currently, Rachel is active in the PARTNER I and PARTNER II study, a transcatheter aortic valve device trial.  Additionally, she works with the Cardiac Thoracic Surgery Network grant studies.