Steven Tropello

Dr. Tropello is an Emergency and Critical Care Physician with a master's in Systems and Computer Engineering. Dr. Tropello worked briefly at JP Morgan as a business solution IT consultant before refocusing on his other passion, medicine. He attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine for both medical school and a residency in Emergency Medicine where he functioned as Chief Resident. After residency, Dr. Tropello and his family moved to Baltimore where he completed a fellowship in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following medical training, Dr. Tropello has continued to live in Baltimore City and work in both Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. He has faculty appointments at both the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he continues research on medical devices and health IT systems respectively.

In 2013 while working clinically at the University of Maryland, Dr. Tropello became frustrated when he was unable to immediately treat a patient with a feeding tube malfunction, causing the patient to be admitted needlessly overnight - and leading to the birth of Coaptive Ultrasound. Dr. Tropello is the inventor and primary developer of Coaptive Ultrasound platform applications, hoping to use the platform technology to help his patients in clinical practices as soon as possible. He will serve as founder and medical lead for CoapTech in order to help the company grow swiftly and deploy applications worldwide.