Stephen Coss Email & Phone Number

I provide operational oversight and day-to-day management at Lifelink Tissue Bank. I am responsible for the effective and successful management of labor, productivity, quality control and safety measures as established. I serve to enhance the operational procedure, systems and principles in the areas of information flow and management, business processes.

• Manage a three person team to recover human tissue for transplant
• Arrange transportation of donor to and from the recovery facility
• Review relevant medical records for abnormalities
• Perform a physical assessment of donor and report any unusual finding to the medical director or executive level staff
• Speak with medical examiners to arrange autopsies
• Recovery of human tissue (long bones, skin, heart for valves, various tendons and veins and eyes) following AORN standards

• Under guidance of management planned production determined by distribution demands
• Supervised the daily production of several different complex product lines.
• Ensured all FDA, AATB and OSHA standards were followed.
• Worked closely with the Research and Development department to design/modify new and existing equipment. Also worked in the creation of new allografts.
• Created standard operating procedures for complex technical procedures.
• Trained staff in all aspects of processing human tissue for transplant. This includes regulations, cleaning and cutting of allografts, packaging of allografts, and proper documentation practices.

• Set up and break down of operating rooms used in tissue production.
• Cleaning of ISO Class 5, 6, 7 and 8 clean rooms.
• Cleaning of processing equipment.
• Cleaning of human tissue (long bones, various tendons, skin).
• Cutting of human tissue into allografts using band saws, lathes, drill presses and CNC machines all while maintaining strict adherence to SOP’s.
• Packaging of allografts. This involves culturing grafts to ensure the absence of harmful microbes and measuring graft to ensure they fall within allowable tolerances.