Adjunct Staff

Sandeep is a clinical pharmacist with extensive clinical leadership experience in both acute care and ambulatory healthcare settings. He completed post-graduate training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and has since worked in clinical pharmacy leadership with large healthcare systems in the greater Philadelphia area. He is also the principal consultant at Bains Rx, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm dedicated to improving outcomes while reducing costs.

Linda has extensive experience as a Physician Assistant in Healthcare, Life science, Devices and CRO companies. Prior to joining Alosa Health, she worked for the Alzheimer’s Association championing corporations to support the Alzheimer’s cause through sponsorships and educational programs. Linda holds an MBA in Healthcare Business Administration and has served on several professional boards.

Mary Liz is a registered nurse who has worked for 19 years in clinical nursing, nursing administration, and hospital administration in the city of Philadelphia. Her doctoral work involved studying health care workers preparedness for terrorism, and she presented her work at the Tenth Annual International Research Conference in Dublin, Ireland. She has served as guest faculty in various universities within metropolitan Philadelphia.

Katarina Frank MD, PhD lives in Dublin, Ohio. As Senior Consulting Manager of Clinical Education for Academic Detailers, she provides training and coaching for academic detailers and conducts grant funding and business development outreach. Dr. Frank is experienced as a Physician Educator and as a Drug and Violence Prevention Educator. She has worked as an Anesthesiologist and Public Health Physician in Europe and as an Anatomy and Physiology Professor and Public Health Educator in the US.  Dr. Frank has published multiple articles related to public health. She received her Doctorate in Medicine in 1996 and her PhD in Public Health in 2014 from Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovak Republic.

Dr. Samir Khoury is a Medical Doctor with extensive experience across both clinical healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked in a variety of therapeutic areas, with a particular focus on respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases. His expertise in medical affairs includes real-world evidence generation, medical-legal review, and scientific communication. Dr. Khoury has contributed to several published studies, particularly in the area of asthma, reflecting his ongoing commitment to advancing patient care through evidence-based research.

Kelly earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Illinois and has been with Alosa Health for over 5 years as an Academic Detailer. Additionally, she is the Senior Consulting Manager of Clinical Education for Academic Detailers in various states throughout the Midwest. Kelly consults on the development and implementation of new materials, is involved in the training of new hires and existing personnel, trains Academic Detailers within the VA (Veteran’s Affairs) and IHS (Indian Health Services) and works on grant funding opportunities. Prior to her work with Alosa Health, she was an independent healthcare consultant, a practicing pharmacist, and in sales and medical education for the pharmaceutical industry.

Paula is a nurse with experience in peri-operative, telemetry, oncology, and med-surgical nursing in a hospital-based setting as well as home health nursing. She also has experience as a clinical coordinator in a multi-disciplinary pain management facility and holds certifications in case management and as a certified disability management specialist in workers compensation and disability insurance.

Kyra is a graduate of the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where she obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy. She is a practicing pharmacist with over 12 years of experience in the retail setting. She is passionate about reducing medication access barriers in the community. In her role as a clinical educator, Kyra will provide academic detailing to providers in New Hampshire.

Mary received her BSN from University of Maryland School of Nursing. Mary has over 25 years clinical experience in critical care and operating room nursing. Mary was also more recently a pioneering RN, Local Care Coordinator with one of the first and largest Patient Centered Medical Home Programs in the country where she collaborated with providers to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for patients with the greatest health needs – typically those suffering from multiple, chronic health conditions. Throughout her career, Mary has particularly focused on the main goal of nursing: caring for the whole patient.

Bonnie holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. She brings over 18 years of nursing education, research, home health care and medical-surgical/oncology nursing experience to her work at Alosa.

Viola has 15 years’ experience in academic detailing and education. She received her Pharm.D. from Northeastern University in Boston. She previously worked as a consultant at CVS Caremark, where she provided appropriate drug therapy and consulted in various disease states such as asthma, diabetes, dyslipidemia, mental health, gastroenterology and rheumatology.

Susan has 30 plus years of nursing experience. She has earned several awards of excellence in nursing. She has a vast experience in nursing which includes medical, surgical, critical care, post anesthesia care, dialysis, and administrative supervisory. She designed and instructed an EKG course in an oral surgery center. She has management experience and was clinical director of education in a long-term care facility.

Robert has extensive experience in both business and healthcare. He is a pharmacist in the Atlanta, Georgia area. In his 30-plus years, he has practiced pharmacy in a variety of settings, including retail, hospital, HMO, call center, and medication therapy management. He received a bachelor’s degree in business from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Colorado.

Kathy is a practicing pharmacist and a member of the PACE Retrospective Review Program and Therapeutics Advisory Committee. She was previously a Director of Pharmacy at a 1,500-bed facility for the developmentally disabled and a co-owner of a community pharmacy in Washington, PA. She also served as a Board Member at the Washington Hospital for ten years.

As a compassionate and experienced nurse educator, leader, and community health advocate, Rebecca is a nursing professional with 14 years of experience from the bedside to the classroom as an acute care RN and University Nursing Professor. She received a Master’s in Nursing from Loyola University, New Orleans and is also a graduate of LSU and Alcorn State University. She believes her educational background and experience working in surgical services, community outreach, and public health has been a cultivating reward both personally and professionally. In 2019, Rebecca was selected to present her research poster in Washington DC at the National League of Nursing Educational Conference. On that platform and within her community she developed and led trainings on educational development and career advancement for aspiring nurses and other healthcare workers.

Dr. Trombetta is an Associate Professor of pharmacy practice at the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University, located in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He is dedicated to education and trains pharmacy students in didactic and experiential settings, focusing on geriatrics and internal medicine alongside clinicians. In addition to his work as an academic detailer for Alosa Health, he is a long-term care consultant pharmacist, overseeing the medication needs of over 600 skilled care beds. As a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist and geriatric pharmacist, Dr. Trombetta holds degrees from Temple University School of Pharmacy and Shenandoah University. He resides in Mountain Top, PA, where he is an active community member.

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.

Elisabeth is located in Bangor, Maine, and is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has consulted on multiple opioid crisis projects throughout Maine and has worked as a physician educator since 2003. She works clinically as a low-barrier buprenorphine prescriber and a nocturnist/hospitalist. She received her MD from Vanderbilt and her MPH in Health Policy and Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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.

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.