Meet the Team

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 solutions 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.

Mr. Carolan has worked for the past 10 years in clinical innovation and patient safety at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and at the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. At the Armstrong Institute he served as lead Project Manager for the development of “Emerge,” in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.  Emerge is a transdisciplinary patient safety program based on Systems Engineering principles that designed and developed applications with clinicians for improving critical care and patient experience in the ICU.  

In his 10 years with Johns Hopkins, Mr. Carolan has been involved with a number of strategic and operational projects spanning the healthcare continuum, with a focus on patient safety, quality improvement, revenue enhancement, and information technology.   Howard’s interest in these areas was forged at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he earned his MPH, received an NIH grant for Public Health Informatics training, and served as President of the Anna Baetjer Society for Public Health.  Mr. Carolan also completed his MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with a focus in health care.  He has co-authored publications in the areas of patient safety, systems engineering, computerized clinician decision support, pay-for-performance, and Venous Thromboembolism prevention.  Mr. Carolan is a graduate of Duke University where he received his Bachelor of Science in economics.  

Mr. Wineberg brings 10 years of professional experience of product and tool design, 3D printing, testing, manufacturing, and document control to CoapTech. He has spent a majority of his career in the Energy Storage Industry where he was the lead engineer on many products from initial design to delivery and learned to keep safety and customer interactions a priority. As Senior Product Engineer for CoapTech, Mr. Wineberg continues to expand his emphasis of high-quality engineering with products where safety is paramount and foundational. His role includes collaborating with patients, doctors, and manufacturers to ensure all parties have their needs and expectation exceeded, while helping reduce the cost of healthcare for everyone through smart and efficient design. Mr. Wineberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University.

Mr. Patterson has over a decade of product development experience, having led several large programs and multidisciplinary teams with a focus on []. As a Vice President of Engineering for CoapTech, he brings a new perspective on research and development strategy and execution.

Mr. Patterson graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Masters of Science in Robotics from Johns Hopkins in 2014 and 2015.