Athanasios (Thanasy) Peppas Email & Phone Number

Ensure daily operational efficiency through extensive planning, proper allocation of resources, enforcement of SOP’s and federal guidelines, thorough dissemination of information, delegation and timely meetings with department heads. ▪ Maintain stringent adherence to deadlines by prioritizing and distributing resources accordingly to ensure all deliverables meet customer satisfaction and met all regulatory guidelines.▪ Develop physician training program serving as additional revenue stream through collaboration with commercial vendors.▪ Representative of Skirball Center for Innovation at various conferences.

▪ Senior scientist serving as Study Director managing GLP and non-GLP studies including development of appropriate study designs, procedure oversight, GLP and IACUC protocol development, case report forms, integrity of data acquisition, and liaise with contributing scientists and sponsors, and author final study reports for sponsor and/or FDA submission.▪ Performed acquisition, organization, QC, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation of data used in characterizing device performance through the use of in vivo preclinical models.▪ Established facility-wide data management plan ensuring efficiency, security, the regulation of the flow, maintenance and integrity of all data as well as proper data retention. ▪ Member of IACUC.

▪ Assisted in various interventional cardiology procedures: hybrid procedures of implanting circulatory assist devices, percutaneous stent deployment, renal denervation, and coil embolization▪ Assisted in large animal surgical instrumentation: device implants, shunts and vascular grafts

Newark, Nj

* Developed a model of ischemic post-conditioning in anesthetized transgenic rodents and conscious swine* Generated models of heart failure and myocardial infarction used in studies of gender, aging and vascular stiffness in non-human primates* Assisted and performed large animal surgical instrumentation for measurement of pressure, flow, dimension, and telemetry implants* Performed studies of ischemia/reperfusion in woodchucks and mice * Conducted studies employing preconditioning in conscious swine with and without infusion of labeled substrates used in metabolic studies* Performed multiple episodes of ischemia used in the study of a novel third window of preconditioning* Trained and supervised physiology staff and post-doctoral fellows in model development, hemodynamic monitoring and data analysis* Developed project-specific IACUC protocols * Ensured department compliance with various regulatory standards: OSHA, IACUC, NRC

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology

Master Of Science, Cell Biology And Molecular Medicine