Megan Beil

Evaluating patients for organ donation potential for either donation after circulatory death or donation after brain death. Chart document into iTransplant and Donor Net. Communicating with donor families and answering any questions or concerns they have regarding organ and/or tissue donation.

Organ Procurement Coordinator - Center for Donation and Transplant - Albany, NY

(2023-10)

• Evaluating patients for organ donation potential for either donation after circulatory death or donation after brain death.
• Chart document into iTransplant and Donor Net.
• Communicating with donor families and answering any questions or concerns they have regarding organ and/or tissue donation.
• Collecting and shipping out blood samples for serology and HLA testing.
• Having strong communication with doctors, nurses, and the administration on call regarding plans for the donor and testing needed.
• Communicating with local recovery surgeons and medical examiners on all consented cases.
• Allocating organs for donation and/or research.
• Coordinating all travel with surgeons and profusionists.
• Scheduling ORs and inputting all documentation on organ anatomy and all other paperwork during recovery.
• Doing all coordinating in the OR and completing all documents and organ anatomy with surgeons and coordinators through Donor Net.

Ocular Recovery Technician - Sight Society of Northeastern New York - Albany, NY

(2021-06 - 2023-09)

• Recovering eye tissue from authorized donors in morgues, funeral homes, and coroner's offices.
• Completing body exams and documenting donor information.
• Collecting blood samples from cadavers using either femoral or subclavian routs. Then centrifuging samples, and submitting them for tesing.
• Taking vitreous samples for autopsy cases.
• Taking photographs of the decedent for autopsy cases, and sending them to the medical examiner.
• Obtaining medical records of the donor, and completing data entry in the recovery system.
• Screening referrals of the recently deceased to determine eligibility for donation.
• Speaking with donor families/health care proxy about tissue donation, and collecting medical/social history of the decedent.
• Recording cell counts on the cornea, and evaluating tissue under a slit lamp.
• Offering and distributing eye tissue to ophthalmologists nationally and internationally.

Ocular Recovery Technician - Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank - Aurora, CO

(2020-06 - 2020-11)

• Preforming eye recovery on registered donors using insitu and enucleation.
• Completing a body exam and entering donor information in the database.
• Taking blood samples from the decedent and submitting them for testing.
• Taking vitreous samples for the coroner.
• Circulating for processors to cut tissue for surgery.
• Preforming lavages on corneas with heavy blood droplets.
• Preserving scleral tissue under a flow hood.
• Sterilizing processing tools.
• Talking with family members of donors to collect medical and social information on the decedent.

Optometric technician and patient coordinator - Eyecare Consultants - Centennial, CO

(2017-06 - 2021-06)

• Pretesting patients for comprehensive eye exams, cataract, PRK, and LASIK post-operative visits, contact lens checks, diagnostic testing for macular degeneration and glaucoma, ocular surface evaluations for dry eye testing, and medical office visits.
• Assisting and teaching patients for contacts lens insertion and removal appointments.
• Preparing EMR charts for Foxfire software.
• Ordering contact lenses for patients.
• Pulling insurance authorizations for comprehensive eye exams.
• Scheduling appointments, reminder calls for patients, preparing fee slips, filing paper charts, and checking in patients.

Optometric technician - Altitude Eye Care - Lone Tree, CO

(2018-10 - 2019-09)

• Pretesting for comprehensive eye exams, contact lens follow up visits, glasses checks, and medical office visits.
• Preparing EMR charts for Office Mate software.
• Assisting and teaching patients for contact lens insertion and removal appointments.
• Administrative duties such as pulling insurance authorizations and scheduling appointments.

Optometric technician - Highline Vision Center - Aurora, CO

(2017-01 - 2017-06)

• Pretesting patients for comprehensive eye exams, vision therapy checks, medical visits, refractions, specialty contact lens checks, interocular pressure checks, dry eye checks, and cataract, PRK, and LASIK post-operative visits.
• Scribing for optometrists.
• Preparing EMR Office Mate charts.

Associate's degree - Occupational studies as an ophthalmic medical technician - PIMA Medical Institute (2018-01 - 2019-08)

Associate's degree - Art - Morgan Community College (2014-08 - 2016-05)