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
