DROPCITE - Key Persons
Andrew has over 15 years' experience bringing software from concept to successful deployment.
Axel Roesler, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Interaction Design Program at University of Washington, School of Art + Art History + Design in Seattle, WA. He has over 20 years of experience in the design of complex interactive systems at the intersection of people, technology and work. Recent design projects explore novel interaction models in high stakes environments for aviation, process control, and medicine with Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Honeywell, and Seattle Children's Hospital.
Bruce is a prominent biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science and mathematics education. He was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama in 2014 and the 2016 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. Dr. Alberts served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2009-2013) and as one of the first three United States Science Envoys (2009-2011). He is now the Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, to which he returned after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Alberts is also noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a preeminent textbook in the field soon to be in its sixth edition. For the period 2000 to 2009, he served as the co-chair of the Interacademy Council, an organization in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of sciences and established to provide scientific advice to the world. Committed in his international work to the promotion of the "creativity, openness and tolerance that are inherent to science," Alberts believes that "scientists all around the world must now band together to help create more rational, scientifically-based societies that find dogmatism intolerable."
Bruce advises DropCite with the wisdom gained from a lifetime of instigating cultural change in research, national and international science policy, education, and scientific publishing.
Connie Jarowey has worked for decades in strategic and financial planning, marketing and clinical health care services. She co-founded several small businesses and has extensive experience in new business development and operations management, business and marketing plan development, and procuring / providing financing. Ms. Jarowey's work experience includes management positions at large international and regional corporations including Blue Cross/Blue Shield and American Medical International. She has been a Director for non-profits and, more recently, a tech start-up.
Connie directs DropCite's financial planning, reporting and operations, building on her expertise honed in both large companies and start ups.
David McShea's practice focuses on the representation of startups, high-growth technology companies, public companies, and venture capital firms. In more than 20 years of practice, he has handled numerous significant transactions, including the initial public offerings of Amazon, Avalara, and Zillow, mergers and acquisitions, public equity and debt financings, and venture capital financings. David is co-author of The Initial Public Offering Handbook: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Executives, Directors and Private Investors (2016). David has been honored five times as "Lawyer of the Year" in Seattle in corporate law practice areas, and is top-ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA. He served as the chairman of the firm's Executive Committee for two terms commencing in 2016. David speaks and writes on emerging issues related to startups, IPOs, corporate governance and venture capital finance.
Dave provides legal counsel and strategic advice on start up, IP and venture capital issues.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Chief Client Officer
Donna is a proven nonprofit leader and innovator with more than three decades of experience bridging the gap between science and policy at the national and state levels. Her most recent role is as executive director of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, after working in similar roles in California at the California Council on Science & Technology, where she was the co-architect of the first state-level Science & Technology Fellows Program, and at the US National Academy of Sciences, where she founded and directed its Office of Public Understanding of Science. She also has consulted with national and state level organizations on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and founded Research Northwest, a non-profit organization devoted to generating best available science for policy decisions. Donna is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and lives in Seattle.
Donna manages DropCite's client relationships, drawing on her extensive leadership experience working at the intersection of science and policy.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach, CEO, Corporate Director
- Strategic Advisor
Janis Machala is an experienced executive coach, CEO, corporate director and community leader. Janis has diverse industry experience in technology, higher education, publishing, and B2B software and services. She is one of the top go-to resources for entrepreneurs and executives seeking opportunities for growth or change. She holds an MBA with a concentration in marketing from the University of Iowa, received her BA with a double major in psychology and English from Augustana College, and has earned several international coaching certifications.
Janis brings powerful and relevant insights and advice to DropCite's early-stage development.
Jennifer advises DropCite as a researcher and medical practitioner who uses infectious disease epidemiology and modeling to improve efficiency of infection prevention strategies and inform policy.
Dr. Berlin received his doctorate in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1988. After spending 15 years as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, under the direction of Dr. Brian Strom, Jesse left Penn to join Janssen Research & Development as a Senior Director in Biostatistics. After two years, he was promoted to Vice President for Epidemiology. He recently retired as Vice President of Epidemiology across all of Johnson & Johnson, with responsibility for pharmaceuticals, devices and consumer products. He has authored or coauthored over 230 publications in a wide variety of clinical and methodological areas, including papers on the study of meta-analytic methods as applied to both randomized trials and epidemiology. He served on an Institute of Medicine Committee that developed recommendations for the use of systematic reviews in clinical effectiveness research, and served on the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership, a public-private partnership aimed at understanding methodology for assessing drug safety in large, administrative databases. He served as a member of working group X for CIOMS (The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences), which has published guidelines for meta-analysis of drug safety data in the regulatory context. He was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004. In 2013, Dr. Berlin received the Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Jessie provides perspective from both academic and pharmaceutical research about the current culture and expectations of researcher-to-researcher interactions.
Joe Lamport is a lawyer with a broad range of legal and business experience in publishing, marketing and finance. He has been active in the start-up arena throughout the course of his career, involved with creation and launch of several groundbreaking online products and services, including Counsel Connect and Law.Com, the first online communities serving the legal profession. He was also a founding partner of Promotions.Com, an online marketing company, that was taken public before its subsequent acquisition by iVillage. His legal experience began with a 5-year stint as a corporate associate with Cleary Gottlieb and he subsequently served as general counsel to Mercer Park, a multi-strategy hedge fund.
Joe brings deep legal and online start-up expertise to our business planning and strategic positioning in the online communications environment.
Job Titles:
- Chief Science Officer of EMed
Dr. Mina is the Chief Science Officer of eMed, where he leads the Advisory Services group in enabling diagnostics companies to digitize their point of care solutions on the eMed platform. Additionally Dr. Mina drives eMed's Clinical Trial Recruitment services and supports in development and execution of go-to-market strategies for the company's new services, including Test-to-Treat™.
Dr. Mina joins eMed from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he was Associate Professor of epidemiology, immunology and infectious diseases, as well as a core faculty member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CDCC). Dr. Mina earned his Ph.D. and M.D. from Emory University and performed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School.
Michael brings expertise in medical research and as a leading innovator who uses social media to communicate about research.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Visionary Team Leader
Robert D. Morris, MD, PhD, is a consulting epidemiologist and award-winning writer. He has taught and lectured at Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard University School of Public Health, and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He served as an advisor to the EPA, CDC, NIH and the President's Cancer Panel. His work has been featured in the New York Times and the London Times, and on Dateline NBC and the BBC. His first book, The Blue Death, received a Nautilus Gold Award and was named one of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2007 by the American Library Association. He lives in Seattle, WA.
Bob, DropCite's visionary team leader, is building on several decades as a research scientist to dramatically improve how scientists interact with each other.
Job Titles:
- Healthcare Industry Leader and Consultant
- Medical Advisor
- President of the Phillips Road Group, Inc
William E. Gerardi, MD, is the President of The Phillips Road Group, Inc., a boutique consultancy providing strategic advisory services to clients in health services, life sciences and financial services, with an emphasis on clinical programs, IT and business strategies.
Dr. Gerardi has served as the Chief Medical Officer for a number of health plans including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, Aetna Better Health of Illinois, Resolution Health (an Anthem company). Prior to joining Anthem, Bill was Corporate Vice President and Executive Medical Director at Health Care Service Corporation, the parent company of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans of Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Montana.
He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group after receiving his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gerardi received his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Georgetown University and completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
Bill, a seasoned healthcare industry leader and consultant, provides insights about the health care market's needs for accelerating research.