OUR CLINICAL ADVISORS
Specialists in pharmacology, addiction medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, internal medicine, and neuroscience.
Dr. Crystal brings more than 15 years of experience as a healthcare business executive and clinician to his role as a Clinical Advisor to DopaGE. Dr. Crystal is the lead inventor of the NARCAN® Nasal Spray. He led its development towards FDA approval and is named on several issued patents for the nose spray that has now saved hundreds of thousands of lives by allowing non-medical first responders and everyday people to reverse opioid overdoses.
Prior to serving as a Clinical Advisor to DopaGE, Dr. Crystal worked for several years as a surgeon, specializing in ear, nose, and throat, head and neck surgery at leading institutions including Imperial College Healthcare, London and was awarded Membership of The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS). He was also an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London and has authored a number of peer-reviewed scientific articles. Dr. Crystal is the Board Director of MindMed and serves on the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO).
Roger Crystal, MD, MBA
Lipi Roy, MD, MSc, MPH, FASAM
Dr. Roy is an Internal Medicine Physician and fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Roy is proud to serve as a Clinical Advisor to DopaGE to further her career-long mission educate and empower young people in making healthy decisions around substance use and overdose prevention.
Dr. Roy is a clinical faculty member at New York University Langone Health and founder of SITA MED. Previously, she served as the Chief of Addiction Medicine at Rikers Island Jail and has a long history of treating patients struggling with substance use disorder (SUD). Having seen the full spectrum of this disorder, Dr. Roy provides clear advisement in DopaGE’s content to prevent students from starting or continuing on a road to SUDs.
Dr. Howse is an Emergency Medicine Physician whose primary goal as Clinical Advisor to DopaGE is promoting culturally sensitive education and access to life saving information. As a father of two and regional ER doctor, Dr. Howse is deeply committed to protecting as many parents as possible from being delivered the news that their child has died of an overdose.
Dr. Howse serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Healiom and has held previous medical leadership roles as a Regional Medical Director, Director of Quality Improvement, Assistant Medical Director and Chief Resident. In these roles he was focused on tech integrations, tracking quality improvement metrics, creating and managing quality protocols, resource allocation, operations and throughput management.
Sean Howse, MD, MBA
Elizabeth Zona, DO, D.ABA, FASAM
Dr. Zona is double board-certified in Anesthesiology and Addiction Medicine, brings nearly a decade of experience as a Medical Director across both of her specialties, and has amassed 31.5K followers and millions of views on Tiktok, @addictiontokdok. In 2016, Dr. Zona lost a childhood friend to opioid overdose. In hindsight, she recognized pivotal moments that lacked preventative education and likely changed the trajectory of her friend’s life. Dr. Zona leverages her understanding of commonly abused drugs to provide youth with functional training that could have protected her friend’s life.
As a physician and mother of 2, Dr. Zona sees how most parents don’t have pharmacology and physiology training, and they aren’t equipped to have complete, factual conversations with their children on substance use as they transition to adulthood. She sees young people having questions that deserve honest answers and knows they “will either find them from a legitimate source like DopaGE, or from a peer that might minimize risk and exaggerate reward. We are here, ready to teach.” Dr. Zona completed her residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, received her doctorate at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and her B.S. from Penn State University.
Ryan Foreman is a current PhD student in the field of Pharmaceutical and Translational Sciences - Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics. Foreman holds his MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics from Keck School of Medicine and his BS in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. He brings his years of experience in wet research and analysis to the DopaGE Clinical Advisory Board to ensure the data and statistics included in DopaGE training modules are sourced only from the most recent and replicable peer-reviewed studies.
Foreman formerly served as Chief Scientific Officer at Team Awareness Combating Overdose (TACO), alongside other current members of the DopaGE Team, and now serves as an Advisory Board member to the non-profit.
Ryan Foreman, MS
Maxwell Reed
Maxwell Reed is a current MD candidate at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, rounding out the DopaGE Clinical Advisory Board with his didactic students’ perspective. Reed holds his BS in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California and is advancing his medical training toward a specialization in neurosurgery.
Reed formerly served as Co-Director of Distribution and Research Lead at Team Awareness Combating Overdose (TACO) alongside other current members of the DopaGE Team. He is also the CoFounder, Board Chair, and former Vice President of the African Diaspora Social Society, also known as D Society.
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