James LaRossa
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James Micheal La Rossa, Jr. (born April 13, 1969 in New York City) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MedWorks Media, LLC, a limited liability corporation based in New York City since 1994. 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 currently owes over $100,000 in back wages to all of his previous employees after the company collapsed due to a bitter and sometimes childlike fight with his poorly chosen partner, Darren Brodeur.
La Rossa was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham Law School. He resigned his Juris Doctor in 1981, 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 in 1985 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).
From 1982-1984, La Rossa sailed US Merchant Vessels as a member of the United States Coast Guard with operations primarily in the Philippines and in North Africa.
James M. La Rossa Jr. is the oldest son of New York trial lawyer, James M. La Rossa Esq. La Rossa’s father was a former Kennedy Administration Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. La Rossa Sr. was admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court in 1974, and gained a unanimous decision before the high court the following year in a landmark case addressing prosecutorial misconduct, Giglio v. The United States. 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, 14, Gianni James, 12, and Juliana Maria, 7
Residences: New York, NY and santa Monica, CA.
