Analytics, Materials, Medical Writing, Training and Policy Consultants
Amy is a graphic designer with more than 20 years of experience working with clients in a wide range of industries. She has expertise in designing medical and technical reports and helping clients shape and edit content. Her award-winning projects include logos, brochures, annual reports, signage, and advertisements.
Stephen Braun is an experienced medical writer, journalist, and author who has written on a range of topics in health, science, and medicine. Braun’s writing career spans over 40 years, focusing on making complex medical and scientific information accessible and understandable for general audiences. After earning his BA in journalism, Mr. Braun worked as a newspaper reporter where he won awards for feature writing and investigative reporting. He served for two years as Science Editor at the University of Rochester before winning a fellowship at WGBH in Boston, where he learned radio and television production skills. Mr. Braun wrote and produced numerous science and medical programs for television, including for the PBS science program NOVA. He has also written eight trade books on topics in health and medicine,
including Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine, which won the American Medical
Writers Association top prize for trade books.
Joe brings nearly 30 years of nursing experience to his work for Alosa Health. Joe has worked in a variety of patient settings, including pre-op, post-op and the ICU. He also has over ten years of experience in sales and clinical education for major pharmaceutical companies.
During his time at Alosa, Joe has worked on several programs, including the highly successful “Prescribe to Save Lives” initiative. For that project, Joe educated providers about naloxone, identifying OUD, and managing patients with OUD across 25 states.
Dr. Kim is a geriatrician and pharmacoepidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a clinical investigator, the main areas of his research include frailty assessment and drug safety evaluation in older adults. Dr. Kim provides primary and consultative care to older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Since 2014, he has been contributing to Alosa Health’s academic detailing program as a geriatrics expert.
Julie Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD
Dr. Lauffenburger is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also an Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a practicing pharmacist and the Assistant Director of the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research focuses on improving medication use, adherence, and outcomes in patients with common chronic diseases, particularly through the development and evaluation of patient-oriented behavioral interventions. She has extensive experience and publications using methods including pragmatic trials, predictive analytics and observational study designs in large healthcare databases. She is a Principal Investigator of research projects funded by the NIH and the National Institute for Health Care Management. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Pharm.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dawn is a registered nurse with experience ranging from the bedside to curbside to the classroom. Passions include public health nursing and educating nurses of the future. In her free time Dawn can be found working with Boston’s homeless community. Dawn holds the position of Lecturer within Northeastern University’s graduate/ undergraduate Nursing department and University of Massachusetts Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences.