ACNA Clinicians
Roger M. Lyons, MD, FACP, Medical Director of ACNA
Dr. Lyons is a board-certified Hematologist with over 30 years of practice and research experience. He has a strong interest in anticoagulation and thrombosis, and has published many research papers in these areas. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, has been on the editorial board of Blood, and is listed in "The Best Doctors in America".
Henry I. Bussey, PharmD., FCCP, Clinical Director of ACNA
Dr. Bussey is a Professor with the University of Texas at Austin and has had a university based practice in anticoagulation for many years. He joined with Dr. Lyons in 1994 to create ACNA. Dr. Bussey was instrumental in implementing the INR as the standard measure of warfarin anticoagulation in the United States. He has conducted many clinical anticoagulation studies and has authored numerous publications in major medical journals on this subject.
Catarina Do, PA-C
Ms. Do graduated from the Physician Assistant program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio . Her experience includes Urgent Care, Primary Care, Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology and Internal Medicine as well as assisting surgical procedures for burn victims & management burn wound care.
Robert Scott Kronenthal, MSN, RN, CS-FNP
Mr. Kronenthal received a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from the Incarnate Word College in San Antonio and a Masters Degree in Nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His experience includes positions as a Certified Medical Assistant, Clinical Nurse II-III in Surgical Intensive Care, Family Nurse Practitioner in Pulmonary/Critical Care, Nursing Instructor, and as a Subinvestigator for numerous clinical trials. Mr. Kronenthal recently joined Cancer Care Centers of South Texas and ACNA and provides anticoagulation care as well as seeing follow-up oncology and hematology patients. He is a member of the Texas Nurse Practitioners, American Nurses Association, and the Texas Nurses Association.
Michael W. Vermeulen, MPAS, PA-C
Mr. Vermeulen graduated from the University of Nebraska Physician Assistant Program in 1991, BS, M-PAS. He has 15 years of experience in Family Practice and Emergency Medicine. Following 25 years of active duty in the United States Air Force with multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr. Vermeulen retired as a Major. He currently resides in San Antonio, raises chihuahuas, is a weekend bass player in a rock band, and is an avid Harley enthusiast.
Erica Carone, RPA-C
Ms. Carone, born and raised in New York, earned her bachelor's degree in conjunction with her Physician Assistant Certificate from an accelerated four-year accredited PA school, the Wagner College Staten Island University Hospital Physician Assistant Program. She became NCCPA certified and attained her licensure in three states: New York, New Jersey, and Texas.
She first established her clinical foundation in the fields of Hematology/Oncology & Internal Medicine under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Mahmoud Aly, MD. Working in his busy NY/NJ dual-office private practice, she was involved in the management and care of general medicine concerns, coagulation problems, malignant and non-malignant hematological disorders, as well as, solid tumors. Her obligations included conducting patient consults/visits, chemotherapy lab supervision, and clinical procedures such as assisting in bone marrow biopsies.
To broaden her clinical skills and knowledge of oncology treatment, she then joined with the Department of Radiation Oncology at Lutheran Medical Center (Brooklyn, NY). Here, she assisted in supervision of external beam radiation therapy/IMRT, first-assisted in Brachytherapy (Burnett Applicator and prostate gland seed implantation), as well as, managed skin care. Ms. Carone also has experience in Emergency Medicine, through her time in the ED/CEC/Urgent Care Center at Staten Island University Hospital.
Most recently, as of September 2009, Ms Carone moved from the Big Apple to Texas, to join with Cancer Care Centers of South Texas, continuing on in the field of Hematology/Oncology and practicing as a provider for the Anticoagulation Clinics of North America.
