Sean W. Mulvaney, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Mulvaney is board certified in Sports Medicine and 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. In 2008, he became the first Department of Defense physician to be credentialed in minimally invasive sports medicine for repair of musculoskeletal and spine injuries. Dr. Mulvaney was the first to use Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) to treat combat-related PTSI and has published in this field of research since 2009. He is internationally known as an educator of other physicians and has pioneered and extensively published on ultrasound-guided techniques. As the Director of Research and a staff physician with Regenerative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Annapolis, Maryland, Dr. Mulvaney focuses on musculoskeletal, nerve and spine injuries using minimally invasive or non-operative techniques with ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance.
Sanjay Mahadevan, BA, is a Clinical Research Associate at Orthobiologics Research Initiative (ORI). During his tenure, he co-designed the first randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical research trial examining the efficacy of micro-fragmented adipose tissue (MFAT) for partial thickness rotator cuff tears. He has contributed to successful grant proposals that received grant funding from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund and PNC Charitable Trust, optimizing clinical outcome measure-based data collection for the practice-wide real-world datasets and multi-site national Lipogems FDA knee osteoarthritis randomized controlled 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.
Roosevelt Desronvilles, B.S, is a Clinical Research Associate at Orthobiologics 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 (SGBs) 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 treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (JAMA Psychiatry, 2020). Her primary focus is on evaluating novel interventions for behavioral health conditions in service members.
