Health Sciences America, LLC (HSA) is a small, independent clinical research company that does grant-based medical research and also offers local site services to Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and national contract research organizations. The company's co-founders, serve respectively as medical director, operations director, and clinical director. Dr. Marsella is a physician by training and a board-certified psychiatrist who received his B.A. at Harvard, his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and his residency training in psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Mr. Castronova and Ms. Quinn both have backgrounds in clinical research coordination. In addition to its other missions HSA is a medical research network furnishing study-procural, patient-recruitment, site-management, and research administrative services for its participating practices in south Florida. HSA serves as a site for Phase II, III, and IV multicenter, nationwide clinical trials, and also authors and implements its own grant-based medical research studies. Our areas of expertise include child and adult psychopharmacology, neurology, epilepsy medicine, pain-management, and rheumatology. While we are a for-profit partnership we maintain a commitment to non-profit medical support groups and devote considerable resources both to community support organizations and to medically-oriented foundation work in nearby academic centers like Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami.

Our research center has extensive experience conducting Phase II-IV trials over the past 10 years. Here are some of the areas we've recently performed research in:

• Chronic Pain
• Dysthymia
• Bipolar I
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Agitation in Geriatric Populations
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Acute Mania
• Epilepsy
• Generalized Anxiety
• Panic Disorder
• Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective Disorder
• Autism (Children/Adolescents)
• ADHD/ADD (Children/Adolescents/Adults)

Our research center has worked with a variety of sponsor companies and CRO's including:

• Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
• Eli Lilly
• Bristol Myers Squibb
• Sanofi Aventis
• Pfizer
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Schwarz Pharma
• Solvay Pharmaceuticals
• Quintiles
• i3 Research
• Kendle

For more information, please contact:

Alis C. Quinn
Clinical Director
Health Sciences America
1515 North Federal Hwy Suite 105
Boca Raton, FL 33432 USA
Phone: 561-674-5290
Fax: 561-394-6510
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Last updated on August 21, 2008