Team Page Draft 2024 — Acumen Medical Communications

Senior Management

Bruce Pierce
Director of Product Development

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

Medical Writers

Justin McLaughlin
Chief Executive Officer and Founder

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

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.

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.

Jennifer Hensel
Lead Medical Writer

With a background in immunology and cancer research, Jennifer has over 10 years of writing regulatory and clinical documents, with a focus on oncology.

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.

Beth Miller
Senior Medical Writer

Beth has been a medical writer for 17 years, with experience in multiple therapeutic areas and regulatory document types, including patient safety narratives.

Lindsay Larkin
Senior Medical Writer

With over 10 years editing biomedical content, Lindsay supports both Acumen's clinical writing and editing.

Caroline David
Medical Writer

Caroline is an experienced research scientist who contributes to nonclinical and clinical writing and project management.

Samantha Yohn
Medical Writer

Virginia Kelly
Chief Medical Officer and Founder

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

Tim Henion
Director of Medical Writing

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

Michael Claffey
Chief Operating Officer

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

Phil Hamilton
Managing Medical Writer

As a lead medical writer for Acumen, Phil is able to bring his 20+ years of experience to clinical document preparation.

Dayna Deuter
Lead Medical Writer

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.

Nate Connors
Lead Medical Writer

Nate is a veteran medical affairs professional specializing in medical affairs publication planning and content development.

Petra Langerak
Lead Medical Writer

With a background in immunology, molecular biology, and drug discovery, Petra contributes to a wide range of clinical documents.

Dikshya Bastakoty
Senior Medical Writer

With a background in molecular biology and over 10 years leading and managing research projects, Dikshya contributes to a wide range of clinical and nonclinical documents.

Mary Donoghue
Senior Medical Writer

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

Hilary Weismiller
Medical Writer and Editor

Hilary leverages her background as a research scientist and project manager to support Acumen's writing and QC teams.

Sarah Keates
Medical Writer

Jamie Spagnuolo
Lead Editor

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

Carolyn Whiston
Senior Editor

With over 25 years of experience in medical editing and document quality review across multiple therapeutic areas and phases of development, Carolyn supports Acumen's editorial and QC team.

Laura Pringle
Editor

Laura is a medical writer with a background in Health Sciences who supports Acumen’s writing and QC teams with regulatory and clinical document submissions.

Medical

Virginia Kelly
Chief Medical Officer and Founder

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

Michael Claffey
Chief Operating Officer

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.

Tim Henion
Director of Medical Writing

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

Mahin Arastu
Lead 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.

Elizabeth Shea
Lead Medical Writer

Elizabeth has extensive experience writing clinical and disease-burden publications as well as regulatory documents. Her collaborative approach is informed by 10+ years of leading publication planning teams in medical affairs departments.

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.

Aaron Slyman
Senior Medical Writer

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

Ida Lister
Senior Medical Writer

Ida is an experienced biochemist and applied microbiologist with a drug discovery background, supporting non-clinical and regulatory document writing.

Mia Defino
Senior Medical Writer

Mia is a medical writer and project manager with a background in pharmacology and translational science who supports clinical publications and regulatory submissions.

Kris Nelson
Narrative Medical Writer

Kris has over 20 years of pharma/biotech experience specializing in drug safety and narrative writing, having authored over 30,000 narratives.

Sarah Ryan
Medical Writer

Kelly Danyow
Director of Editorial Services

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

Colleen Mullen
Narrative Director/Managing 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.

Ava Taylor
Lead Medical Writer

Ava has been a medical writer for 15 years, with extensive experience in managing writing teams and overseeing processes. Ava also performs lead medical writing for all clinical document types.

Jacquie Cronin
Lead Medical Writer

Jacquie is a lead medical writer with over 18 years of experience writing clinical regulatory documents and publications.

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.

Alice Lim
Senior Medical Writer

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

Jen Bracy
Senior Medical Writer

Leveraging her background in molecular immunology and over 15 years of analytical experience, Jennifer authors both clinical and nonclinical regulatory documents and publications.

Paul Guttry
Senior Medical Writer

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

Laney Casella
Medical Writer

Laney has 10 years of biomedical engineering research experience and contributes to Acumen’s clinical and non-clinical writing projects.

Louise Adam
Lead Editor

Louise is a scientific/medical editor with 20 years of experience, with a background in clinical genetics. She is a BELS Diplomate and CIEP advanced professional member.

Connow Wood
Medical Editor

Connor holds a PhD from Boston University and brings his 10+ years of experience in research and editing to Acumen's editorial and QC team.

Katie Kane
Regulatory Affairs Consultant

Katie is a Regulatory Affairs consultant with over 25 years of experience across devices, biologics, and drugs and a range of indications.

Program Management

Fernando Venegas
Head of Operations & Quality

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

Kelly Danyow
Director of Editorial Services

Justin McLaughlin
Chief Executive Officer and Founder

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

Samantha is a medical writer with a focus on nonclinical and clinical manuscripts, leveraging her background in pharmacology and prior experience in academic publishing.

Sarah is a medical writer with experience in both basic science and clinical research. She supports clinical and nonclinical documents and publications.

Medical Editors

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

Mary Claffey
Lead Editor

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

Elizabeth Knight
Medical Editor

Elizabeth uses her experience as a chemist, project manager, and science editor as a member of Acumen's editorial and QC services team.

Regulatory Affairs

With a background as a research scientist, Sarah supports clinical and nonclinical documents.

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.

Abigail Shetler
Medical Editor

Abigail is a board-certified editor in the life sciences with nearly 10 years of experience in industry as a medical writer, editor, and regulatory operations specialist.

Susana Curley
Editor

As a neurobiologist, Susana has spent 15 years working in Academia and in the Pharmaceutical industry, and brings this experience to Acumen as a member of its narrative writing and scientific document editing teams.

Rebecca Ververs (Paintin)
Project Coordinator

Rebecca contributes to Acumen’s software development; she also supports Acumen’s narrative writing team as an editor and writer.

Cindy Spier
Medical lead

Cindy is a board-certified physician trained in emergency medicine with 25 years of experience. She supports medical review of patient narratives.

Darlene Vickers
CMC Regulatory Affairs Consultant/Writer

Darlene is a regulatory affairs and CMC writer with a background in CMC regulatory strategy; alongside Module 3 authoring, she performs risk mitigation and strategic CMC plans for biopharmaceutical companies.

Mandy Munsch
Program Manager

Internal Support

Deb Wallace
Human Resource Manager

Deb has over 25 years of experience managing academic research enterprises and supporting learning organizations’ capability development.

Graphic Design

Dora Blake-McLaughlin
Finance Manager

Dora leads Acumen’s finance and human resources.

Clinical Trials Disclosure

Kim Green
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.