Founder, President
CurrentFormed MedShadow Foundation, the parent company of two nonprofits, MedShadow (2012) and DES Action USA (acquired in 2015). MedShadow’s mission is to inform the public on the side effects, risks and benefits of prescription and OTC medications. DES Action (founded in 1978) educates, empowers and advocates for the millions of women who were given DES in pregnancy in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. The world’s first synthetic estrogen, DES was thought to prevent miscarriage and early labor. It did neither and instead left the mother, her child and subsequent generations (estimated at 5 million people in 2015) at risk for rare cancers and other serious medical conditions. MedShadow Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and accepts no advertising or monetary support from pharmaceutical companies or healthcare provider organizations.