Author Biographies

Sean Mulvaney, M.D.:  Dr. Mulvaney is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and is board-certified in Pain Medicine. During his 31-year military career, Dr. Mulvaney served our nation’s Special Operations community as both a US Navy SEAL officer and a US Army physician. Dr. Mulvaney published the first case series using Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) to treat combat-related PTSD and has published 14 papers in this field of research since 2009. He is a staff physician with Regenerative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Annapolis, Maryland.
Sanjay Mahadevan, BA, is a Clinical Research Associate at Orthobiologics Research Initiative (ORI). During his tenure, he has contributed to successful grant proposals that received funding from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, optimization of clinical outcome measure-based data collection for the practice-wide real-world datasets and multi-site national Lipogems FDA knee osteoarthritis randomized control-trial. Additionally, he has published several research studies and case reports related to stellate ganglion procedures and orthobiologics. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2021 with a major in Natural Sciences and a minor in Psychology.
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Roosevelt Desronvilles: Roosevelt Desronvilles, B.S, is a Clinical Research Associate at Orthiobiologics Research Initiative INC. (ORI). His contributions as a member of ORI's research team have involved research focused on the application of interventional orthobiologics for numerous musculoskeletal disorders, optimization of in-house clinical data collection, and management of one site as part of a nationwide multi-site FDA clinical trial. He has also co-designed and contributed to a successful state-level grant proposal for the first randomized clinical research trial examining the efficacy of adipose-derived micro fragmented-adipose tissue (MFAT) for partial thickness rotator cuff tears.  He has published prior works regarding MFAT for musculoskeletal conditions and stellate ganglion blocks(SGB) and has presented his orthobiologics research at national academic conferences. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Johns Hopkins University.
Kristine Rae Olmsted, MSPH, is a Senior Psychiatric Epidemiologist at RTI International. During her 24-year tenure there, Ms. Rae Olmsted has designed and led research studies in the field of military behavioral health. Most notably, Ms. Rae Olmsted and colleagues published the seminal study illustrating the effectiveness of stellate ganglion block for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (JAMA Psychiatry, 2020). Her primary focus is on evaluating novel interventions for behavioral health conditions in Service members.
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