Meet Ohio State's team of collaborators, perfusionists and staff at COPPER Lab

The COPPER Laboratory at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center comprises an accomplished team of multidisciplinary collaborators and staff, all of whom are focused on contributing to novel research innovations for organ perfusion, organ protection, engineering and regeneration. Our team members are dedicated to the development of extended ex-vivo donor organ perfusion. This serves as a platform for organ assessment, repair and modification to improve organ transplant outcomes and increase the amount of useable organs from donors.

Our Leaders

Sylvester Black, MD, PhD

Co-Director, COPPER Laboratory

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Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD

Co-Director, COPPER Laboratory

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Collaborators

Staff

Michael Allman
Eliza Beal, MD

General surgery resident, MMSP candidate

Eliza W. Beal, MD, is a PGY-2 general surgery resident, post-doctoral research fellow and Masters of Medical Science candidate. She earned a Bachelors of Science in biological anthropology at the University of Michigan and her medical doctorate at the The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is currently a general surgery resident at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She is committed to a research career and intends to pursue a fellowship in Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery. Her research interests include ex-vivo perfusion for liver transplantation and diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Curtis Dumond

Research assistant

Curtis Dumond is an undergraduate working on his Bachelors of Science in radiation therapy at The Ohio State University. He has been working at the COPPER lab for two years and has been managing the lab for the last year. During his time in the lab he has been working on the lung and liver perfusion models, helping to modify techniques of the lung and liver procurement surgeries and components of the circuit itself. He looks to finish his degree in 2017 while continuing research in ex-vivo lung and liver perfusion and transplantation.

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Jung Lyw Kim, PhD
Kevin Nelson

Perfusionists at Ohio State

Our COPPER Laboratory Team

Meet Ohio State's team of collaborators, perfusionists and staff at COPPER Lab

Our Leaders

Sylvester Black, MD, PhD

Co-Director, COPPER Laboratory

Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD

Co-Director, COPPER Laboratory

Collaborators

Sylvester M. Black, MD, PhD

Samir N. Ghadiali, PhD, MS

Blaine W. Lilly, PhD

Jianjie Ma, PhD

Peter J. Mohler, PhD

Andre Palmer, PhD

Thomas Preston, BS, CCT, CCP, FPP

Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD

Staff

Michael Allman

Eliza Beal, MD

Curtis Dumond

Jung Lyw Kim, PhD

Kevin Nelson

Perfusionists at Ohio State

James Ralston

David Dumond

Mark Dumond

David Igoe

David Mast

William O'Brien

Gregory Oldendorp

Chad Poulton

Ty Smith

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