Kristin Drake, PA, MA

Director - Clinical and Regulatory Affairs for Organ Transport Systems

Ms. Drake is highly experienced in the medical devices clinical and regulatory arena and brings 15 years of experience in both hospital based clinical experience and sponsor company research experience. Ms. Drake has served as a hospital based staff physiologist, field clinical engineer/specialist, national trainer, clinical research associate and project manager for a variety of medical device companies. She has spent her career working in cardiology, electrophysiology, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery and organ transplantation and artificial devices as a physiologist and physicians assistant most notably spending 5 years as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Heart and Lung transplant and LVAD team. Ms. Drake's career has provided her the opportunity to work throughout Europe as well as South America and Asia obtaining CE Marking and FDA approval for a variety of medical devices with respected organizations including CryoCath, J&J and St. Jude Medical. Ms. Drake is an Association of Clinical Research Associates certified CRA, earned her M.A. in Cardiovascular Physiology from Central Michigan University, her B.S. in Clinical Psychology with minors in Economics and Biomechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and trained for her P.A. in Cleveland, Ohio.  Ms Drake spent nearly 2 years as Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs for the NTec company Organ Transport Systems and is currently Manager of Regulatory Affairs for the Irving, Texas based design engineering and manufacturing firm Avail Medical - A Flextronics Company.