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Management Team
Sharon Feder (President, CEO, and Founder)
Michael S. Victoroff, M.D. (Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer)

Physician Consultants
Fredrick R. Abrams, M.D.
Catherine G. Boon, M.D.
Brian Bouch, M.D.
Sol J. Grazi, M.D.
Evaleen Jones, M.D.
Daniel Perlman, M.D.
Ron S. Rosen, OMD
Jerry Rubin, M.D.
Connie Sanchez, N.D.

Nurse Consultants
Lavinia Ambrose, RN, CLNC
Annette Guerin, RN, BA, BSN, CRRN
Sally J. Hartshorn, RN, MS

Medical Researcher
Cristy Geno Rasmussen, MPH

Alternative Medicine Researcher
Karlo Berger, ABT, LMT

Case Researcher
Adam Kay
Jeffrey Kirkwood

Case Coordinator
Becky Hogan

Management Team

Sharon Feder (President, CEO and Founder) developed Lynxcare to address gaps within the medical system that she became aware of in the course of caring for one of her sons, who has a constellation of complex medical conditions. A successful visual artist and mother of three sons, Sharon’s vision is to help people get the most from the health care system. Her work with Lynx has been featured in the Denver Post and on the Colorado Matters radio program.
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Michael S. Victoroff, M.D. (Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer) was named “Family Physician of the Year” by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians in 1996. He practiced family medicine and obstetrics for 19 years before becoming Medical Director for Aetna, Inc. of Colorado in 1997. From 2002-2006 he worked as an investigator for the University of Colorado Department of Toxicology on cases of suspected environmental chemical exposures.

Dr. Victoroff completed a fellowship in biomedical ethics, and has served on numerous ethics committees, including the American Academy of Family Physicians’. He has been a member of the Colorado Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law and the Judicial Affairs Committee of the Colorado Medical Society. He has chaired the Colorado Perinatal Care Council and the Colorado Medical Society Committee on Medical Informatics. In 1989, he developed an electronic medical record system for physician offices. As a risk management consultant for Copic Insurance Company, he developed a coding system for medical errors that has been used in Federally-funded patient safety research.

Physician Researchers:

Fredrick R. Abrams, M.D.is director of The Clinical Ethics Consultation Group, and consultant to the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, the Quality Improvement Organization for the State of Colorado. In 2006 he received the Isaac Bell and John Hayes Award for Leadership In Medical Ethics and Professionalism from the Board of Trustees and Foundation of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Abrams graduated from Cornell University College of Medicine and practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 42 years. He is past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He teaches at the University of Colorado School of Medicine; he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from its Ethics and Humanities program. Currently, he serves on the ethics committees of Rose Medical Center, the Donor Alliance, Denver Health Medical Center, the Colorado Pain Management Consortium and the Medical Advisory Board of Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. He founded the Center for Applied Biomedical Ethics at Rose Medical Center, and was the first Executive Director of the Colorado Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law. Dr. Abrams has been involved in local, state and national organizations as well as research throughout his career. He has been instrumental in passing several key pieces of legislation, and has conducted over 1,500 workshops, lectures, and conferences for medical, nursing, legal, clergy, teachers and the public on ethical issues.

Dr. Abrams has written textbook chapters, casebooks, resource manuals and scores of articles and has appeared on national and local television and radio programs. His book, Doctors on the Edge (2006), is a collection of true stories about doctors and patients grappling with ethical dilemmas, exploring the theme, "Should doctors ever lie, betray a confidence or bend the law?"
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Catherine G. Boon, M.D. is a board certified pediatrician who has been providing individualized primary care for pediatric patients since 1998. She obtained her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed her residency training at the University of Florida. She is interested in preventive care, helping children and families understand how to maintain and regain their health, and researching evidence-based treatments for complex pediatric conditions.
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Brian Bouch, M.D.,. is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was board certified in Emergency Medicine from 1984-2004; currently he is certified in Medical Acupuncture. He has been in practice for over 30 years and specializes in treating people with complex medical conditions. For the last seventeen years he has combined alternative therapies with conventional medical care in a multi-specialty, integrative health center in northern California. Dr. Bouch supervises practitioners of acupuncture, nutritional counseling and supplementation, osteopathic manipulative medicine, traditional Chinese and western herbal medicine, massage and bodywork.

He was the first Medical Director of Commonweal, an alternative medical research center focusing on cancer care, and Medical Director of Onebody, Inc, a company that brought complementary and alternative benefits to health insurance companies. He developed an alternative medicine internet site. He is an associate clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, teaching medical acupuncture to physicians. Since 2002, Dr. Bouch has provided consultation services for people challenged with life threatening and other severe illnesses through personalized medical literature searches, advocacy and referrals for care to both conventional and alternative medicine providers, nationwide.
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Sol J. Grazi, M.D. is a board certified Family Practitioner who has worked with holism throughout his career. He founded the Colorado Holistic Health Center and has served on the board of the American Holistic Medical Association. As an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he has taught both undergraduates and resident physicians. Dr. Grazi published the first book on S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) in the United States. He has lectured in many venues before live audiences and on radio.
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Evaleen Jones, M.D. is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco Family Practice Residency. She has been on the clinical faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1996. Dr. Jones is an active member of the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), which is comprised of faculty and educators dedicated to international health education. Dr. Jones’ commitment to the underserved stems from growing up in rural New Jersey and spending her college years in the impoverished Appalachian region.

Daniel Perlman, M.D. is an Internist and infectious disease specialist in Denver, Colorado. He trained at the University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. He also has a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota. He has been on the clinical faculty of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Infectious Diseases since 1987. He is involved in local, state and national organizations in his specialty and is interested in helping families focus on interventions in diagnosis, therapy and level of care issues in persons with complex medical problems.
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Ron S Rosen, OMD is the founder of Colorado Healthcare Associates. He opened his private practice in 1971 and was the first acupuncturist registered in Colorado (in 1990). He graduated from the Post Graduate Institute of Oriental Medicine and the international Acupuncture Institute, and has completed residencies in Hong Kong and China. He is a diplomat of the International Acupuncture Society, a Fellow of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental medicine (FNAAOM) and a Fellow for Life of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado. He is past president of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, a founding member of the National Sports Acupuncture Association, and a permanent member of the International Acupuncture Society.
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Jerry Rubin, M.D. is a board certified pediatrician who has devoted his professional career to attaining the most individualized and integrative healing possible for his young patients. He graduated from the University of Utah Medical School in 1977 and completed his residency at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Rubin has studied holistic medicine extensively and he consistently approaches health care from a perspective that combines evidence-based medicine, western technology and the individual child’s essential growth, development and healing.

Connie Sanchez, N.D. is a licensed Naturopathic Physician. She graduated cum laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a B.S. in Biology and received her doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. With over twenty years experience in the field of nutrition and fitness, Dr. Sanchez is a popular lecturer on thyroid and autoimmune disorders and is currently writing a book entitled “Natural Solutions for Healing Thyroid Disorders.” In 2004 she co-hosted the popular radio show, ‘The Wellness Forum’ and is currently the Director of Nutrition for Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers, a natural food and supplement chain with regional locations throughout the Southwest.
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Lynx Nurse Consultants

Lavinia Ambrose, RN, CLNC,  is a certified legal nurse consultant. As a nurse for more than 10 years, she has more than 10 years’ experience in various nursing specialties including surgical, medical-surgical, emergency, pain management, endoscopy, post-anesthesia recovery, and urology. She has also worked in quality management for managed care. Ms. Ambrose has managed multidisciplinary teams performing medical record reviews on a national level. She has managed a primary care physician credentialing site visit department for a quality management organization. She performs Medicare Set-Aside Analysis and is an independent consultant for insurance companies and attorneys. She is a member of the National Alliance of Legal Nurse Consultants and the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants.
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Annette Guerin, RN, BA, BSN, CRRN has degrees in Psychology and Nursing and is certified as a CRRN (Certified Registered Rehabilitation Nurse.) Over the last 10 years she has worked in the areas of medical record and site review, assessing compliance with established quality standards, and has performed legal record reviews. She has worked in acute care, rehabilitation, and long-term care, providing care management and discharge planning intervention. She has also developed a fluent knowledge of health care funding as it relates to specific medical needs.

Sally J. Hartshorn, RN, MS, has degrees in Environment Design, Nursing, and Health Care Administration, and has worked many areas including long term care, youth corrections, and adult medicine. Before relocating to Colorado in 1993, she worked at Children’s Hospital in Boston. In addition, she has worked in hospital planning, hospital architecture and labor relations, consulted on medical malpractice issues, and created, directed, and trained nurses in a behavior management program in a large corporation.

Sharon Ruby Carpenter, RN, is currently an Emergency RN. She has 15 years’ experience in emergency care in Level I trauma, including pediatric, geriatric and neurological patients. She has also worked in cardiac, pediatric, internal medicine and critical care, PACU, and drug research. She has been involved for 8 years as a preceptor and in pre-hospital education. Educating clients and their families while creating partnerships within a crisis is one of her primary roles.
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Lynx Case Researcher

Adam Kay is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge (UK). He has received scholarships, grants, and awards in several areas, including creative writing and anthropological research in Tibet. For nearly a decade, he has worked as a freelance editor for a wide range of material, from professional psychological papers to original screenplays. He has published articles on shamanism and the meaning of dreams.
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Jeffrey Kirkwood earned his Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago with an expansive background in research. He has received a number of grants in disciplines as disparate as international human rights and liminal psychological phenomena, and worked on keynote presentations for the UNESCO conference and the American Psychological Association’s lifetime achievement award.
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Medical Researcher

Cristy Geno Rasmussen has a Master's degree in Public Health and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Health and Behavioral Sciences Program at the University of Colorado. She has worked in research for the past 9 years and has extensive experience in grant writing, manuscript preparation and public health consulting. A member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Ms. Rasmussen’s primary interests are in the behavioral sciences, chronic disease prevention, health disparities, maternal and child health, medical ethics and health literacy.
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Alternative Medicine Researcher

Karlo Berger, ABT, LMT, is founder of the Integrative Medicine Alliance, which since 1999 has built bridges between conventional and alternative healthcare. He has extensive experience helping individuals find high-quality holistic and integrative healthcare and identifying appropriate therapies for specific illnesses. He has written for the Natural Standard medical information service, and his holistic therapies advice column, Ask Karlo, appears monthly in Boston’s Natural Awakenings magazine.

Marketing and Case Coordinator

Debbie Cristofano attended the University of Dallas and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a degree in Human Services and Counseling, along with an additional training certificate in individual and group facilitation. As an operations consultant, Ms. Cristofano helps health-oriented businesses setup new medical offices. She has organized the installation of phone and computer systems, negotiated vendor contracts, and organized company site moves. As a human resources manager and consultant, she has recruited, hired and trained staff and developed policy, procedure and personnel manuals. She has organized health fairs and networking events along with writing commercials for The Wellness Forum radio show in Colorado.
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Becky Hogan has a background in counseling, human services, sales, operations, communication and office management. Her goal is to assist patients and individuals in their journey through the medical field and through their own personal challenges. She has gone through chemotherapy, but also supports the use of alternative treatments.
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