# About Collin B. George

I am a pre-medical student working full time in patient care at the University of Washington. I came to medicine after a career in cybersecurity and national-security research, and I am completing my science prerequisites. This page summarises my clinical, professional, research and service background for admissions readers. Hours are estimates; my application records are authoritative.

## Career timeline
| Years | Focus |
|---|---|
| 2010–2016 | Independent research and self-directed study in security, policy and technology |
| 2016–2019 | B.A.S. in Cybersecurity, Columbia Basin College (summa cum laude) |
| 2018–2021 | Cybersecurity Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy) |
| 2022–2023 | Security Engineer, U.S. Department of State |
| 2023 to present | Community service: ESL teaching for immigrants, and the Humane Society |
| 2025 to present | Clinical training (Pima Medical Institute), then full-time patient care at the University of Washington. Pre-medical science prerequisites in progress. |
| 2026 to present | Sanctir LLC (founder and principal) |

## Goals
I want to become a physician who brings the discipline of safety engineering to patient care. My first career, as a cybersecurity engineer at a national laboratory and as a security engineer at the U.S. Department of State, trained me to look for how systems fail, to design for human error and to keep an honest record of what went wrong and why.

Full-time patient care at the University of Washington, and shadowing across anesthesiology, surgery, critical care, and palliative and end-of-life care, has shown me where those habits matter most: in the moments when a patient's safety depends on a team getting the details right. I am drawn especially to anesthesiology, critical care and palliative medicine. I want to care for patients across Washington, including communities that face barriers to care.

## Clinical experience
- **University of Washington: full time, 2025 to present.**
  - **Medical Assistant–Phlebotomist (MA-P):**
    - inpatient and outpatient blood collection by venipuncture and capillary puncture;
    - patient identification, preparation and reassurance;
    - specimen labelling, handling and processing;
    - infection-control and patient-safety procedures;
    - working closely with nursing, physician and laboratory teams.
  - **Clinical Laboratory Technician 1 (CLT1):** specimen collection, including phlebotomy, and specimen processing and handling for the clinical laboratory.
- **Phlebotomy training:** Pima Medical Institute, Seattle (2025). Coursework covered:
  - anatomy, physiology and medical terminology;
  - laboratory practice and communication;
  - phlebotomy, with a clinical externship;
  - CPR and first aid.

## Physician shadowing
About 300 hours of formal shadowing, across:
- anesthesiology;
- surgery;
- imaging;
- intensive care, including cardiothoracic ICU;
- palliative and end-of-life care;
- geriatrics;
- oncology;
- endocrinology.

Shadowing was observational. No patient information from any clinical setting appears on this site.

## Clinical interests
The work on this site centres on:
- perioperative medicine and anesthesiology;
- critical care physiology;
- palliative and end-of-life care.

These interests grew out of my shadowing and clinical work. They are not a commitment to a specialty.

## Research
**Formal research**
- **Cybersecurity Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy), 2018–2021, about 6,000 hours.** Cybersecurity engineering and research in a government research-laboratory setting.
- **Security Engineer, U.S. Department of State, 2022–2023.** Security engineering for national-security programmes.

**Formal training**
- **Cybersecurity and industrial-technology training: about 1,500 hours.**

**Independent research and scholarship, 2010 to present: more than 10,000 hours** (self-directed, without an institutional supervisor)
- **Health and pharmaceutical topics:** pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical topics, public health, oncology and anesthesiology. This includes the evidence reviews, synthetic case studies, the pre-specified HLA glioma methods study and the Smart NOA simulation on this site.
- **Security and policy topics:** cyberbiosecurity, cybersecurity, national security, sanctions, law and policy, and chemical and supply-chain security.
- **Where it's published:**
  - working papers on [SSRN](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=12695968);
  - research outputs under ORCID 0009-0007-8162-6839;
  - code and records on GitHub.

  The SSRN papers are working papers, not peer-reviewed publications.
- **AI assistance:** how AI was used is stated openly on the [Authorship page](AUTHORSHIP_AND_REVIEW.md).

## Service
- **English-language teaching and resettlement support for immigrants.**
- **Humane Society volunteer:**
  - animal care, including clinical care;
  - animal well-being;
  - facility maintenance;
  - public and customer relations.

Together, the community service above comes to about 300 hours, from 2023 to the present.

**Free educational resources:**
- the [MCAT study app](https://mcat.collinbgeorge.com/), free with no account required;
- open-source cybersecurity references, including the [CMMC Level 2 reference](https://www.sanctir.com/cmmc-reference/).

## Skills and capabilities
- **Clinical:**
  - phlebotomy and specimen handling;
  - patient communication in a high-volume clinical setting;
  - CPR and first aid;
  - medical terminology.
- **Evidence and analysis:**
  - reading and appraising clinical and pharmacological literature;
  - structured analytic methods that separate findings, judgments and confidence;
  - documenting sources and corrections openly, as this site does.
- **Technical:**
  - programming (Python, including object-oriented programming and machine learning) and databases;
  - Linux and Windows systems administration;
  - network and information security, digital forensics and cryptography.
- **Systems and safety thinking:** risk analysis, fail-safe design and audit trails. The [safety-design write-up](https://github.com/collingeorge/Smart-NOA-Controller/blob/main/SAFETY_DESIGN.md) shows how these ideas carry into patient safety.

## Education and coursework
- **B.A.S. in Cybersecurity,** summa cum laude: Columbia Basin College (2019).
- **Graduate coursework:**
  - intelligence analysis: Johns Hopkins University;
  - security studies and digital forensics: University of Central Florida;
  - cybersecurity: University of Maryland Global Campus.
- **Post-baccalaureate coursework:** programming, robotics and machine learning at Bellevue College (2023), and phlebotomy at Pima Medical Institute (2025).
- **Pre-medical science prerequisites:** in progress.

## Credentials
- **Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), ISC2.** Status can be checked in the ISC2 member registry.
- **Medical Assistant–Phlebotomist (MA-P),** Washington State Department of Health.

## Professional background
- **Cybersecurity Engineer,** Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (2018–2021).
- **Security Engineer,** U.S. Department of State (2022–2023).
- **Sanctir LLC (2026 to present):** founder and principal of this independent research and advisory practice in national security, sanctions, export controls and cybersecurity. Its research is published on [sanctir.com](https://www.sanctir.com/principal/).

## Letters of recommendation
Letters of recommendation are submitted confidentially through the application services (the AAMC Letter Service and AACOMAS). They are not published here.

## Contact
Email: [cgeorge@sanctir.com](mailto:cgeorge@sanctir.com)