Team

Elijah has built his career in work where minutes matter. He served as a U.S. Army combat medic and earned the Army Achievement Medal as an instructor in Tactical Combat Casualty Care. He then served as a firefighter, EMT and fire captain, and he and his Advanced Life Support team were recognized by Allegheny Health Network for setting a new benchmark in stroke patient contact to emergency department care time.

In organ donation, he worked as an organ recovery coordinator, preservation preceptor and organ preservation specialist at a U.S. organ procurement organization, where he trained and guided new transplant coordinators. He is trained and credentialed on preservation devices from OrganOx (normothermic and flight perfusionist), Paragonix and Organ Recovery Systems.

Teaching runs through all of it, from Army trauma courses to presenting in an OPO's monthly clinical education series. He co-founded MultiSync to give recovery and preservation teams the tools he wanted in the field, and he writes on LinkedIn about the details that matter after an organ is recovered.