PharmD · Clinical practice to medical affairs
Twelve years in pharmacy, most of it acute care. At Pear Therapeutics I sat on the commercial and government affairs team behind the first FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutics, profiling addiction-medicine KOLs and turning OUD and SUD data into pilot proposals with medical affairs. Today I lead a 12-pharmacist telepharmacy team across more than 70 acute-care hospitals.
I can present clinical evidence to a KOL in the morning and walk a CFO through adoption economics in the afternoon.
Clinical credibility, plus the ability to translate evidence for the people who have to act on it.
Mapped and profiled addiction-medicine KOLs with AI-assisted research, then briefed medical affairs on who mattered and why. Presented pilot and outcomes data straight to clinicians, health systems, and state agencies, and folded their pushback back into the program.
Commercial and government affairs at Pear Therapeutics, the company that brought the first FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic to market. Partnered with medical affairs across opioid and substance use disorder, from disease-state reads through pilot design.
Twelve years of practice sit behind a weekly bylined healthcare-AI publication. Two dozen essays so far, each one taking a regulation, a study, or a vendor claim apart until a pharmacy director or a CFO can act on it.
Hospital pharmacy into digital therapeutics, then back into clinical leadership at scale.
Cardinal Health · Remote
Oct 2023 – Present
I lead a team of 12 remote clinical pharmacists covering order verification, dosing, and therapeutic monitoring for more than 70 acute-care hospitals. Clinical quality and multi-state regulatory compliance sit with me.
Clinical Staff Pharmacist Jul 2023 – Oct 2023
Pear Therapeutics · Remote
Commercial & Government Affairs Team
Pear developed FDA-authorized prescription therapeutics for opioid and substance use disorder. My work sat at the seam between the science and the buyer: KOL strategy, grant-funded pipeline expansion, and pilot programs with state and federal entities.
Comprehensive Pharmacy Services · Naperville, IL
Mar 2018 – Oct 2020
Moved from clinical staff into operations leadership, supervising 50 pharmacists and technicians across 175 hospital accounts.
Clinical Staff Pharmacist Mar 2016 – Mar 2018, Oct 2020 – Sep 2021
Acute-care order review, anticoagulation and antimicrobial dosing, therapeutic monitoring, and new-hire training across hospital client accounts.
Target Pharmacy · Chicago, IL
Ran a high-volume retail pharmacy with a team of 10.
I write TheraIntel, an independent healthcare-AI publication. Weekly literature evaluation and scientific communication for clinical and pharmacy audiences.
A working analyst's read on where healthcare AI meets the operating model, written for the people who have to deploy it: pharmacy directors and health-system operators.
Read TheraIntel ↗Tox Titrate and Med Match are browser teaching tools for toxidrome recognition and drug-class recall. They sit alongside a nine-title arcade I wrote in vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks and no dependencies.
I'm always glad to hear from medical affairs teams, field medical leaders, life-science recruiters, and the people building digital health. Chicago-based, and travel is not a constraint.
