Tiger symbolizes healing
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MY CLINICAL
RESEARCH TEAM
Natalie Fillman MD
Research Administrator
Natalie accomplished her medical training at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland. She started her training in research administration with us in 2017.
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Amy Luckett
Regulatory Affairs Manager, CRSO
Amy is indispesible, our outstanding regulatory officer making sure that our all protocols are updated and approved by IRB and FDA.
CELL PROCESSING RESEARCH TEAM
Lindsay Basto RN BSN
Manager
Clinical Reasearch
Lindsay has been leading clinical research related to islet transplantation since 2002. This year she was promoted to the position of the Clinical Research Manager to supervise execution of the research projects related to solid organ and islet transplantation in our Transplant Institute.
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Dr. Bachul accomplished his surgical training at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and initiated his research training in solid organ and islet transplantation at the University of Chicago in July 2017.
Karolina Golab PhD
Lab Manager
Pancreatic Islet and
T regulatory Cell Specialist
As a scientist, Karolina has been leading our T regulatory cell ex vivo expansion project bringing us closer to the first clinical application. As a manager, she organize and supervise daily activity of the lab.
Ling-jia has been devoted expert in the clinical islet isolation and now is focused on preparation of our application for a Biological License to FDA.
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Martin Tibudan MS
Transplant Research
Specialist
Martin is indispensable making sure, we can smoothly carry out all our experiments. He oversights supplies, equipment and logistics related to the experiments.
CLINICAL TEAM
Christine Trotter
Nurse Practitioner
Christine takes care of the patients, when they are admitted to the hospital for transplant procedures. She directly communicates with patients, providing them comfort, minimize stress and pain as well as makes sure all tests related to their care as well as study protocols are carried out properly.
Amanda Burress
Physician Assistant
Amanda plays the same role as Christine
alternates being on call. She also comforts patients when in the hospital, ordering necessary medications and tests, arranging consultation alleviating pain and stress. She constantly coordinates patient care when in the hospital.
Ling-jia Wang MD PhD
Technical Director,
Senior Project Manager, BLA
Islet Transplantation
Piotr Jerzy Bachul MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jesus (Jesse) Rodrigez III, RN
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Richard Cummings RN
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Jesse, Rich and Karina, they are day and night-24/7, constantly reviewing potential donor charts looking for optimal organs for our patients. They also coordinate transportation of the organs in the shortest possible time to our center, so they can be succesfully transplanted with the optimal outcome.
As other members of the Transplant Team, the play a very important role in organ preparation and the outcome of the transplantation.
Karina Tweed, RN
Organ Procurement Coordinator
Brenna Kane Pharm. D,
Pharmacist
Lisa Potter Pharm. D,
Pharmacist
Brenna is our pharmacist deeply involve in care of our kidney, pancreas and islet transplant patients. She makes sure they receive right medications in the right dose in the right time. She warns us about drug interactions and side effects. Adjusting properly medications is critical for well being of our patients chronically exposed to toxic anti-rejection medications.
Lisa is our pharmacy leader with great experience in clinical research involving testing new medication against placebo in setting of randomized studies. She is critical in preparation of the study medication, even if this means to come to hospital in the middle of the night or weekend when transplants usually happens.