Our team at Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services is our number one strength.
Our vested team of owning partners and staff have years of experience working in organ recovery, donor management, donor screening, organ perfusion, research and cell isolation.
Everyone at Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services shares a commitment to being good stewards of every gift of life by applying innovative approaches to maximize the outcome of each gift.
Rob Kaiser, Chief Scientific Officer at Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services, has spent his career working to advance research with the goal of benefiting health and wellness across the globe. With extensive experience in the research industry, Rob has firsthand knowledge of the challenges researchers face when attempting to isolate cells from organs that have been improperly handled. His work focuses on providing innovative solutions for isolating vital liver cells, or hepatocytes, to improve research outcomes. Prior to his current role, Rob held several leadership positions in multiple preeminent primary cell providers including CellzDirect, Triangle Research Labs, and Lonza. His expertise in the isolation of human and animal hepatocytes is vital to ensuring Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services meets the needs of its customers and the industry at large.
Chief Scientific Officer & Partner
Rob Kaiser
Jefferson Hare
Jeff Hare, co-founder and CEO of Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services, is committed to advancing both aspects of the company’s mission: enhancing the preservation and transportation of organs for transplant and collaborating with researchers to address the challenges of isolating vital primary cells from non-transplantable organs. In addition to his leadership at Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services, Jeff is the founder and CEO of Transplant Staffing Resources, which specializes in providing staffing solutions for Organ Procurement Organizations. His extensive background in the donation and transplantation field includes service to two OPOs, Indiana Donor Network and Gift of Life Michigan. Jeff’s team currently works with 33 OPOs to provide services in all aspects of organ and tissue recovery. Transplant Staffing Resources has a team of over 160 contract employees that include organ coordinators, family services coordinators, organ preservationists, tissue recovery technicians and remote call center staff. The inspiration for Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services can be traced back to his service to these organizations, as Jeff recognized a critical need for organ preservation flyout services and mechanical device perfusion to help bridge a gap between the lifesaving services provided by OPOs and transplant centers. Previously, Jeff was a firefighter and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman, which makes Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services a proud veteran-owned company. Jeff is passionate about organ donation and transplantation. His mission is to give every individual/family the opportunity to donate and honor every lifesaving gift of life whether it is through organ transplant or cellular research.
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Luttrell
The success of Organ Perfusion and Cellular Services is due in large part to co-founder and chief operating officer Nathan Luttrell and his passion for providing reliable, high-quality organ perfusion and support services to help maximize the gift of life. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has also developed an innovative method of isolating primary cells, benefiting transplant research and the scientific community. Before starting the company, Nathan gained extensive experience in the organ donation and transplantation field, working in cell isolations, organ recovery services, family services, and community outreach and education. His introduction to the healthcare industry occurred over 25 years ago when Nathan served as an EMT and firefighter in Alaska. After becoming a registered nurse, he served as a trauma and procedure nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, before becoming a vital member of the organ donation and transplantation community.
Co-founder & COO
Dr. Paul Lange
Dr. Lange has nearly three decades of clinical experience and extensive involvement in graduate and undergraduate medical education. Throughout his career, he has held several leadership roles.
Before taking on leadership roles in the organ and tissue donation and transplantation industry, Dr. Lange spent 15 years with Ascension Borgess Health in Michigan, serving first as an intensivist, providing care for critically ill patients, then as chief of the department of critical care medicine and finally as president of Borgess Ascension Medical Group. He is also a clinical professor in the department of medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine.
Dr. Lange also served as chief medical officer at Gift of Life Michigan and Donor Alliance He is the current chief medical officer at Indiana Donor Network.
He received a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from University of Michigan and a doctoral degree in medicine from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He completed a fellowship and postdoctoral training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Following his fellowship, Dr. Lange served as medical director of the lung transplant program for University Hospitals of Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Lange is a member of many scientific and professional organizations, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society and American College of Physicians.
Medical Director
Dr. Jeffrey S. Vogl
His practice philosophy is simple: Listen, take your time and have fun. After 40 years of practice Dr. Jeffrey Vogl still loves the joys and challenges of veterinary medicine. He opened University Park Veterinary Hospital in 1994, a small animal practice in Granger Indiana after being an associate veterinarian in Michiana for ten years. Originally from Michigan, Dr. Vogl received his degree from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he also did his undergraduate work. He was fortunate to extern at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans Louisiana. He also served on the Indiana University School of Medicine South Bend’s IACUC committee for several years.