EPR-Technologies

Lyn Yaffe, M.D., EPR-Technologies, Inc., Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, was instrumental to the development of the concept of EPR during the research and development work at the Safar Center of Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. Lyn has been dedicated to the concept and knowledgeable with regard to its emergency life-saving utility and potential applications in the field of resuscitation. Given the complexities of the EPR procedure and the demanding setting in which it will be used, these points take on special importance in this regard. Lyn and his team are therefore the best group to bring EPR forward successful development and product commercialization. Lyn completed undergraduate education at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Arts and Sciences, majoring in biophysics, in 1968. He received his M.D. degree at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, in 1972, and completed pathology and research post-graduate training at Columbia University, New York, NY, with additional molecular biology research experience at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, in 1978. In the past decade, Lyn has been actively involved in research and development programs related to (1) patient/casualty monitoring strategies, (2) emergency hypothermia and rapid cooling techniques for point-of-injury care to induce ultra-profound cooling and suspended animation (EPR), and (3) semi-automated to automated, rapid vessel access techniques for therapeutic hypothermia, and a range of automated needle/catheter guidance and placement technologies.

Xianren Wu, M.D., EPR-Technologies, Inc., Co-Founder and Board Member, Xianren Wu graduated from the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai in 1986, earned his Master of Medicine in 1989 after completion of a three-year, research-oriented program, and was trained in clinical anesthesiology. He was an anesthesiologist in Shanghai for 7 years. Since 1996, he was a full-time researcher in resuscitation medicine, working as a research fellow in Basel, Switzerland, for 3½ years and 6 years at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh. His research focused on CPR, hemorrhagic shock and emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR) technologies. Dr. Wu is currently a trauma anesthesiologist at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. Dr. Wu’s role in EPR-Technologies, Inc. is a senior, co-founding, Scientific Advisor, in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Geisinger Medical Center. Mr. Wu's primary occupation is with the Geisinger Medical Center. He currently serves on an as-needed basis in his role with EPR-Technologies, Inc.

Thomas Hardiman serves as EPR Technologies’ Executive Vice President for Financing, Continuing Medical Education, and Training, while also currently handling EPR Technologies’ recruiting and sales plans. Tom’s experience includes 20-plus years commercial and government strategic marketing expertise in the medical device, pharmaceutical recall/returns, and medical personnel recruitment. Previously, as Vice President of Cine-Med, an AMA-accredited Education, Medical Communications, Marketing and Surgical Cinematography firm, Tom sourced, serviced, and supported unprecedented accredited and non-accredited commercial-Federal contracts. Tom currently works with industry contacts within the American Trauma Society, the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Association of Operating Room Nurses, the United States Department of Defense, the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Ministry of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and all branded and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers. Tom is an independent contractor with the City of Stamford and spends 20 hours/week working with EPR-Technologies. Utilizing his experience as a four-year Letterman and starting quarterback for Western Connecticut State University (WCSU), Tom has coached football, baseball and basketball for Fairfield, Connecticut Youth Sports and Wakeman Boys and Girls club for 10 years. He has also served as a Board Member for the WCSU Alumni Association as well as the Nationally Ranked Fairfield American Little League Baseball and Pop Warner Youth football programs. In his free time, Tom enjoys fishing, golfing, traveling, and spending time with his friends and family.

Brad Stezoski is a Board Member of EPR-Technologies. Brad received a Bachelor of Arts, Studio Arts, Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He has experience in media, photography, and website design for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Department of Anesthesiology. Currently, Brad is with UPMC IT as an analyst, developer and support expert for administrative business web technologies for medical, community practice, education, and research-based Intranet sites, and is the Lead Developer of SharePoint sites for all administrative medical departments at UPMC. Mr. Stezoski's primary occupation is with UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. He is the son of one of the original co-founders, William Stezoski, and represents the Stezoski Family on the Board of Directors. He currently serves 1-2 hours per week in his role with EPR-Technologies, Inc.