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James M. La Rossa, Jr., is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MedWorks Media, LLC, a limited liability corporation based in Los Angeles, CA.. MedWorks owns and publishes seven health science journals. MedWorks’ journals and projects have a distribution of over two million printed pieces per annum. The company has, as well, ten internet portals in North and South America to accommodate electronic distribution from around the world. MedWorks’ Journal and special projects clients include Alza, Amgen, Bristol Myers, Dupont, Forest, Glaxo, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), Lilly, Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, Roche, Solvay, UCB Pharma, and Wyeth, among others. In 2003, La Rossa sold his interest in the first two journals he founded, Primary Psychiatry, and CNS Spectrums. La Rossa was the publisher & chief executive officer of the combined companies since they were incorporated in 1994. La Rossa was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham Law School. He resigned his Juris Doctor following a brief clerkship in the Federal District Court, 2nd Circuit, in New York. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. La Rossa is on the Board of Directors and heads the Executive Committee of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a group comprised of neuroscientists and pharmaceutical industry executives dedicated to the research and prevention of suicide. La Rossa is on the President’s Advisory Council of Phoenix House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation group for adolescents and young adults. He is a member of the World Psychiatric Association. In Europe, he is a co-founder of the Holland-based International Society for CNS Spectrums, a group which sponsored elite scientific meetings aimed at furthering novel psychiatric treatment in Europe. The group’s business activities are presently suspended. La Rossa is a vested member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a member of Amnesty International. La Rossa began his professional career in Rome as a journalist for The International Courier, Italy’s most widely read English-language newspaper. Upon returning to the U.S., La Rossa was the editor of Our Town, a weekly community service newspaper in New York with a circulation of 150,000 readers per week. He was the publication director of a number of McMahon Group medical newspapers, and was projects publisher of various magazines owned by ABC Capital Cities (Fairchild). La Rossa was a U.S. Merchant seaman and a member of the United States Coast Guard. While not at sea, he worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Reflecting his personal interests, La Rossa is an executive member of two nationwide corporations dedicated to wetland conservation, Ducks Unlimited and Trout Unlimited. La Rossa is a licensed bow hunter and fly fisherman. Children: Sofia Tatiana, Gianni James, and Juliana Maria Residence: Manhattan Beach, CA.