Justin McLaughlin

CEO and FOUNDER

With leadership in medical writing and product development, Justin oversees Acumen’s services and software development.

Virginia Kelly

CMO and FOUNDER

A board-certified hematologist/oncologist, Virginia provides strategic medical and clinical development support.

Michael Claffey

Vice President

Having led medical writing teams for over a decade, Michael heads Acumen’s medical writing services.

Fernando Venegas

Head of Operations & Quality

Fernando has worked in biotech for 25 years and leads Acumen’s program management and quality control services.

Bruce Pierce

Director of Product Development

With over 20 years’ experience in software development, Bruce leads Acumen’s product development.

Tim Henion

Director of Medical Writing

A seasoned research scientist and nonclinical writer, Tim oversees Acumen’s nonclinical writing.

Colleen Mullen

Director of Narratives / Lead Medical Writer

With 25+years as a scientist and medical writer, Colleen has expertise in all phases of clinical writing, and leads Acumen’s narrative writing teams.

Kelly Danyow

Director of Editorial Services

With more that 12 years of experience editing and writing technical documents, Kelly oversees Acumen’s editorial services and document QC.

Elin Agoston

Managing Medical Writer

With a background as a research cancer biologist, Elin authors a wide range of nonclinical documents, both for regulatory and publications.

Paula Gauthier

Lead Medical Writer

Paula has led, written, and edited clinical, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance documents for more than 20 years with a strong focus on oncology.

Dayna Deuter

Lead Medical Writer - Contract

With 18 years of medical writing experience, Dayna has deep experience writing regulatory documents, with a focus on oncology, rare disease, and gene therapy submissions.

Dave Mee

Clinical Scientist / Lead Medical Writer

With over 30 years of industry experience, Dave has a deep understanding of clinical development, having built and led teams in this space.

Pat Nastase

Lead Medical Writer

Pat has 25 years of experience as a regulatory medical writer and has written a wide variety of clinical documents and contributed to many submissions.

Courtneay Parsons

Lead Medical Writer

In her nearly 20 years of experience as a medical writer, editor, and team leader, Courtneay has worked across multiple clinical document types and therapeutic areas.

Patrick Barry

Lead Medical Writer

Having worked in medical and scientific communications for 10+ years, Patrick has extensive experience of clinical content development across several therapeutic areas, with a focus in hematology/oncology and rare diseases.

Donna Curtis

Lead Medical Writer

Donna has been a medical writer for over 30 years with extensive experience across a range of therapeutic areas.

Mahin Arastu

Senior Medical Writer

As a neuroscience researcher with over 14 years of experience in industry, Mahin has authored a wide range of documents from publications to nonclinical regulatory submissions.

Mary Donoghue

Medical Writer

Mary is a clinical writer with an extensive scientific background and experience across multiple regulatory document types, including patient narratives.

Paul Guttry

Medical Writer

Paul is a medical writer with a focus on clinical manuscripts and publications, leveraging his extensive prior experience in academic publishing.

Alice Lim

Medical Writer

Alice is a medical writer with a cancer cell biology background who supports nonclinical publications and regulatory submissions.

Aaron Slyman

Medical Writer

Joining Acumen after completing his PharmD, Aaron contributes to the development of various clinical documents including submission filings.

Mary Claffey

Lead Editor

With over 20 years in academic publishing, medical writing, and technical communications, Mary provides in-depth quality reviews and editing.

Kim Green

Lead Editor / Clinical Trials Disclosure

Kim has 15 years of experience writing and reviewing clinical documents and managing global teams and has substantial expertise in clinical trial transparency and disclosure.

Lori Potraffke

Lead Editor

Lori has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for nearly 15 years, specializing in copy editing, data quality control review, formatting, template creation, and style guides.

Karen Dewar

Lead Biostatistician

Karen is a biostatistician with advanced statistical programming skills and over 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Jennifer Hensel

With a background in immunology and cancer research, Jennifer has over 10 years of writing regulatory and clinical documents, with a focus on oncology. Photo: yes. Title: Lead Medical Writer

John Welle

Senior Graphic Designer

John has spent 20 years as a technical writer and graphic designer, leading Acumen’s graphical services for posters and publications.

Mary Jane Smith

Lead Medical Writer

Mary Jane is a lead medical writer with over 20 years of clinical regulatory writing experience and previous experience as an oncology nurse.

Dora Blake-McLaughlin

Finance Manager

Dora leads Acumen’s finance and human resources.

Jamie Spagnuolo

Editor / Associate Medical Writer

With 5 years’ experience editing medical content, Jamie supports both Acumen's editing and medical writing services.