Dr. Alex Pana Potential upcoming congressional legislation slated to ban mercury amalgam fillings Dr. Alex Pana, environmental and homeopathic dentist, discusses the potential upcoming congressional legislation slated to ban mercury amalgam fillings Susan Lawrence, Dave Mashore Raise awareness of the impact of human emotional pain and trauma on societal and world problems Susan Lawrence is the founder and executive director of The Catalyst Foundation. Dave Mashore is the director of the Creating a Healing Society program. They work together in an effort to raise awareness of the impact of human emotional pain and trauma on societal and world problems. The Catalyst Foundation began with the idea of using the issue of AIDS to transform both individual lives and society as a whole.