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Talented professionals, superior results.
We offer the best and the brightest. Every one of our clients receives JB Ashtin’s signature brand of personalized service to ensure your objectives are reached on time and within budget. With JB Ashtin, you’re in these good hands.
Joan K. Bradley, PharmD
President/CEO
Joni brings determination, commitment, and passion to JB Ashtin. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry and with national/international subject matter experts in various therapeutic areas for more than 20 years. As leader of JB Ashtin, her business objective is to assist pharmaceutical, biotech, and consumer health clients in strategizing, investigating, and conceptualizing ideas for medical and marketing communications, publishing, and healthcare education. Since 1998, she has served as an associate clinical professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy.
Get in Touch
jbradley@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 201
- In 2009, she was named by PharmaVoice magazine as one of the top 100 most inspiring people.
- In 2010, she was the recipient of the Detroit AT&T WIPP (Women Impacting Public Policy) Innovator of the Year Award.
- Joni likes to sing. In high school, she aspired to be a back-up singer for Pat Benatar. Now, she’s certain she’d be a great judge on American Idol.
- She has had a lifelong ambition to write books for children and young adults. Maybe she’ll conquer that in her next career.
- Joni admits to having a minor addiction to hazelnut coffee cream.
Lori Bainbridge
Director, Client Services
Orphan drug or blockbuster, Lori brings equal parts experience and enthusiasm to her accounts. Over the course of a unique career path, she’s held leadership positions in the fields of medical publishing, disease state education, public affairs, and global pharmaceutical marketing. This diverse experience supports her in adding strategic value to both commercial and clinical teams. Her broad experience includes developing and implementing investigator meetings and advisory boards, speaker training programs, international congress activities, clinical experience programs, and field-force initiatives.
Get in Touch
lbainbridge@jbashtin.com
734.620.8012
- Making it all happen! Lori has an extraordinary understanding of the global pharma marketplace honed over years of experience. She knows what makes client/agency relationships tick.
- She once worked closely with Sir David Frost who was the moderator for an international congress meeting she organized in Vienna.
- Lori is an amateur gemologist who is obsessed with diamonds, rare stones, and jewels owned or worn by the rich and famous.
Cindy Brown
Publications Manager
“Organization” should be Cindy’s middle name. She has extensive project management experience and is responsible for coordinating scientific publication preparation/processes for publication plans, developing and driving detailed project timelines according to team-specified deadlines, and serving as advisor to all clients regarding internal and external publication policies. In addition, she coordinates client approval and release of publications and ensures delivery, placement, and timing of publications. She manages vendors and budgets according to the scope of each project.
Get in Touch
cbrown@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 208
- Cindy thrives in working within cross-functional teams that include manuscript authors, medical writers, editors, journal editorial department staff, and clients. Our clients benefit from her extensive knowledge of the medical publishing industry.
- She is a reality TV junkie – the more drama, the better.
- Cindy is a “Scrabble” ninja and is a master at “Words with Friends”, which she plays on her iPhone (but not at work).
Autumn Coy
Associate Director, Client Services
Autumn is energy personified. She serves as JB Ashtin’s “center” for client activity for meetings and events and applies the right mix of solutions and services to maximize client success. In addition to supervising a staff of project coordinators and project assistants, she manages every aspect of key client relationships, helps determine client strategies, and executes programs and meetings that support their objectives. Autumn has particular expertise in managing meeting logistics and directing services for all assigned JB Ashtin programs. She serves as one of JB Ashtin’s primary on-site contacts for clients, overseeing the logistic details of live events and managing the activities of all vendors (internal and external) to keep programs on time and within budget. She is proficient with and works within all guidelines, including FDA, OIG, and PhRMA.
Get in Touch
acoy@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 216
- Autumn has a flair for building client relationships, and she excels at establishing long-term business associations. From scientific meetings with hundreds of attendees to small advisory board meetings, she ensures that clients have a productive, stress-free event.
- Autumn has a strong passion for the environment and is JB Ashtin’s “Green Team” president. She organizes and provides oversight for many eco-friendly activities and events that JB Ashtin employees participate in throughout the year.
- She’s a die-hard Michigan State University Spartan alum and fan but strangely enough knows next to nothing about football or basketball.
- Autumn is more comfortable in high heels than sneakers.
Amy Horton, PharmD, CMPP
Vice President, Scientific Services
Amy leads the close-knit, professional editorial staff at JB Ashtin. A seasoned author, editor, medical writer, presenter, and trainer, Amy brings to the table 14 years’ experience in medical communications. Her extensive expertise provides a unique perspective to oversee a wide swath of projects. Amy exhibits a deep understanding of the needs of medical communications/marketing clients and successfully works with faculty and researchers to design and manage all facets of a client’s program. She is a Certified Medical Publications Professional and has particular expertise working in the clinical areas of ADHD, asthma, bipolar disorder, depression, psychoses, diabetes, pain, epilepsy, acute coronary syndromes, women’s health, and wound healing.
Get in Touch
ahorton@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 212
Laura Miesle, PharmD, CMPP
Senior Scientific Director
Laura offers our clients a diverse medical writing background that spans 10 years working with large pharmaceutical companies. She is a Certified Medical Publications Professional and has extensive experience writing complex documents (dossiers, regulatory submissions, clinical study reports) that meet guidance from various agencies (FDA, DEA, CPSC) through collaborations with diverse departments (eg, clinical, legal, marketing, and R&D). At JB Ashtin, Laura has capitalized on her ability to collaborate and work as a team player to develop strategic plans and scientific content development for new and existing clients. Her writing expertise includes the clinical areas of psychiatry, ADHD, adult and pediatric pulmonology, diabetes, oncology, immunology, and dermatology.
Get in Touch
lmiesle@jbashtin.com
734.620.8212
- In her professional career, Laura has won several awards for significant contributions to business success.
- Laura is a registered practicing community pharmacist, which adds real-time perspective to her writing.
- Laura is a sports enthusiast. When not working, she enjoys playing volleyball with her league teammates and relaxing with family and friends.
Jeanne Nickoloff
Vice President, Business Solutions
Jeanne leads JB Ashtin’s operations team and is our resident technophile (ie, JB Ashtin’s stunning techie nerd). Her skills are broad-based and her expertise shines through in customer relationships, internet and database solutions, compliance, and financial management. With more than 13 years in the pharmaceutical communications industry, Jeanne contributes a profound knowledge to the leadership and growth of the JB Ashtin team. Before joining JB Ashtin, Jeanne was a data management consultant for the pharma giant Pharmacia (now Pfizer) in that company’s Global Publications Department.
Get in Touch
jnickoloff@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 202
- Jeanne is dedicated to meeting the expectations of JB Ashtin’s clients. She constantly researches and identifies new technologies and tools to support and improve operations that enhance customer service.
- She can install anything . . . from the most sophisticated computer hardware to home appliances (refrigerators, washers and dryers, garbage disposals, etc). The girl’s got skills!
- Jeanne has toyed with the idea of scaling Mount Everest. However, she is now content just spending time with her family and friends.
Teresa Oblak, PhD
Scientific Associate
Teresa comes to us from the laboratory (no, she’s not the product of some freakish experiment gone awry)—her background is chemistry. She has more than 5 years of experience developing presentations for diverse audiences within the scientific community, including chemists, biologists, and clinicians. She has been published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals relating to chemistry and bioanalytical sciences. At JB Ashtin, she has written a variety of abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and other printed materials on ADHD, acute pain, and women’s health. Teresa has a strong understanding of science and is an expert at analyzing descriptive and numeric data.
Get in Touch
toblak@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 222
- Teresa is an avid photographer, and animals are one of her favorite subjects. Several of her photographs have won awards from the ASPCA and the Los Angeles County Fair.
- One of her biggest dreams is to travel to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, when the fishing vessels are in port for king crab season.
- Teresa’s philosophy on life is aptly summed up with the expression, “When nothing goes right, go left”.
Lisa Pawlak
Speakers’ Bureau Coordinator/Client Services Coordinator
Lisa is a veteran in customer relationship management and has extensive experience working with internal teams, external clients, and vendors. As a JB Ashtin speakers’ bureau coordinator, Lisa has the proven expertise and know-how to successfully manage all aspects of speakers’ bureau projects from start to finish. She excels at maintaining consistent communication with pharmaceutical sales representatives, physician speakers, and internal staff while overseeing all the details associated with producing large- and small-scale speakers’ programs. She ensures that speakers’ bureaus follow all regulations and codes of conduct precisely.
Get in Touch
lpawlak@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 207
- When we were searching for a client services coordinator, we had several qualities in mind. Things like friendliness (just because we are JB Ashtin), initiative (to anticipate client needs rather than react to them), unflappability (because flapping around doesn’t do us or our clients much good), and of course, intelligence (because it takes a keen mind to meet our clients’ high standards). Lisa embodies all these traits, and more.
- Lisa has a passion for volunteering for Special Olympics and any cancer-related charity events.
- She is JB Ashtin’s official brewista, she makes a mean pot of coffee.
- Lisa is nicknamed “The Jukebox” because she knows every word to every song ever written.
Rich Porter
Manuscript Editor/Scientific Resources Management
Affectionately known as “Major Pain” by the Scientific Services staff, Rich represents the quality assurance arm of JB Ashtin’s scientific services department and brings 15 years of experience in manuscript editing. Before joining JB Ashtin, Rich was a manuscript editor with the American Medical Association and technical editor with three environmental engineering consultancies. Although editing manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed medical journals is his specialty, Rich also ensures that editorial accuracy and style are consistent across the contents of presentations, monographs, slide kits, white papers, abstracts, posters, meeting materials, and websites at various production stages. His editorial expertise in medical manuscript preparation includes such subject areas as otolaryngology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, general medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics/adolescent medicine, dermatology, and alcoholism/drug abuse.
Get in Touch
rporter@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 221
- Rich believes that good editing is at once an art, a craft, and a science. He knows how to polish documents without blunting the client’s important message.
- When not correcting comma splices or dangling participles, Rich likes to play his bagpipes.
- In his youth, he was a member of a youth symphony that once performed for the great composer and orchestra conductor, Leonard Bernstein.
Lamara D. Shrode, PhD, CMPP
Executive Director, Scientific Services
Lamara is one of our rock stars. She has 10 years’ experience in the medical communications industry and is a Certified Medical Publications Professional. As JB Ashtin’s editorial lead writer, she is responsible for developing strategic publication plans across multiple therapeutic areas; writing clinical articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals; preparing slide presentations for product experts; developing abstracts and posters for presentation at national and international congresses; and preparing review articles, journal supplements, monographs, and newsletters. Lamara is especially adept at developing projects tailored to diverse audiences, including specialists, primary care physicians, and nurses. Her experience includes developing strategic publication plans for longitudinal patient registries and writing clinical study reports and white papers. Her clinical areas of editorial interest include oncology, dermatology, autoimmune diseases, hematologic disorders, nephrology, and acute pain. Lamara received her doctorate in biomedical sciences (cell physiology) from Wright State University.
Get in Touch
lshrode@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 209
- Lamara was a research scientist for 10 years before entering the medical communications industry.
- She received her undergraduate degree from West Virginia University and is a huge Mountaineers fan.
- Lamara is a passionate baseball fan. Her bucket list includes attending a game at every MLB ballpark in the nation. To date she has been to 11 parks plus 3 spring training ballparks in Florida.
- When not preparing very technical documents, Lamara likes to relax with her golden retriever, Liberty.
Cheryl Stone
Associate Director, Business Solutions
Cheryl comes to JB Ashtin from the American Medical Association, where she had more than 10 years’ experience in program management. At JB Ashtin, Cheryl is responsible for directing and managing all special projects that relate to speakers’ bureaus. She is a key player in helping JB Ashtin introduce dynamic, innovative products and services (including new media, on-line communities, and other cutting-edge business solutions) to our clients, keeping them at the forefront of ever-changing trends in today’s pharmaceutical industry.
Get in Touch
cstone@jbashtin.com
734.459.3144 ext. 217
- When it comes to sharing her technical knowledge, providing project management expertise, and delivering best-in-industry service, Cheryl has become the “go to” professional our clients rely on for seamless, worry-free dinner and web-based meetings.
- Cheryl rode a bike from Minneapolis to Chicago in 6 days to raise money for charity.
- She has jumped from an airplane . . . on purpose!
Ann Marie Thompson
Executive Director, Meeting & Event Services
From Allentown to Zenia or Australia to Zambia (and all points in between), no matter where our clients choose to have a meeting or event, Ann Marie Thompson provides total quality services. She brings 23 years of experience in researching, negotiating, planning, and coordinating all types of events, meetings, and conferences. She has served JB Ashtin with distinction as the company’s meeting & event services director since 2003. Ann Marie works very closely with all stakeholders in every event, including the client, JB Ashtin’s own client services team, client trip directors, and all vendors. Her extensive expertise and attention to detail ensure that JB Ashtin’s clients will receive a seamless, cost-effective, professionally orchestrated meeting or event.
Get in Touch
amthompson@jbashtin.com
(office) 503.589.4362
(mobile) 734.620.8003
- She’s traveled to Romania and volunteered in an orphanage as a childcare provider. On a more local level, Ann Marie volunteers her efforts at a Women’s Crisis center in her community.
- Ann Marie is always prepared. The JB Ashtin team chides her on the amount of luggage she brings to business meetings (however, according to Ann Marie, the JB Ashtin team uses half of what she brings).
- She often is told that she could be Meryl Streep’s sister.
John Boland
Creative Director
John has worked with JB Ashtin for 2 years, bringing his highly creative design perspectives to clients’ projects. In addition to providing his graphic expertise and creative insight to JB Ashtin, he is also the founder and CEO of 2 award-winning graphic design agencies, The River Design Group in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and The Mouse That Roared in New York City, where he developed creative campaigns for such clients as Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Schering Plough, Novo Nordisk, and Abbott Laboratories (for River Design), and HBO, American Express, Revlon, AT&T, and Time magazine (for “Mouse”). Prior to establishing his companies, John was vice president/creative director at QLM Marketing Associates in Princeton, New Jersey. While at QLM, John oversaw creative campaigns for clients that included Novartis, Citibank, Dial, and Nestlè USA. Subsequent to his tenure at QLM, John built and led creative design teams at Omnicom, McCann Healthcare, and ProCom International – a division of CommonHealth. He also led the global design teams for OCC, a medical communications company with offices in Philadelphia, London, and Tokyo.
Get in Touch
Contact JB Ashtin at 734.459.3144
- John has honed those special designer “problem-solving skills” through years of experience. He brings to our clients an immense background in conceptual design and product communication. Design is his passion, and every project is a source of great excitement.
- He is interested in Zen philosophy and tries to approach life as it unveils itself each day.
- John attended college with Bruce Springsteen, although briefly, and turned down a personal invitation from The Boss to come hear his band play. Carpe diem, John, carpe diem!
Bryan Minear
Graphic Design/Photography
Bryan is our free spirit graphic artist and photographer with an eclectic, übercreative style. Whether working with clients who want their project to have a corporate Madison Avenue look and feel or a funky indie art quality, Bryan is comfortable in creating designs that reflect either genre. His corporate areas of expertise include logo design, branding/rebranding and identity, ad campaigns, social media marketing, print and packaging, website graphics, animation, new media, advertising and promotional photography, and product photography (and yes, he even does weddings and senior portraits). Bryan also has experience in designing album artwork and t-shirt art. He received his degree in fine arts, graphic design and photography from University of Rio Grande in Rio Grande, Ohio.
Get in Touch
Contact JB Ashtin at 734.459.3144
Interesting Facts
- Bryan believes that quality is the one article of trade that cannot be compromised, and this is clearly seen in his work. He prides himself on giving clients the attention and creative products and services they deserve.
- One of Bryan’s favorite quotations is, “Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing” – Optimus Prime. Yes, this is taken from the Transformers movie (and yes, he is a closet nerd). Bryan believes that “when opportunity comes a’ knockin’, always answer”.
- When Bryan’s not working, you will usually find him with a guitar in his hands and either writing music or jamming with friends.