Certified Clinical Perfusionist. Clinical author. Traveling perfusionist. Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Tom Ferry is a Certified Clinical Perfusionist (BS, CCP) with more than 20 years of clinical experience across 24 hospitals in cardiac surgery, ECMO, normothermic regional perfusion, and heart transplant medicine. He operates as owner of Central Coast Perfusion LLC, a traveling perfusion practice based in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
His clinical background spans the full scope of adult cardiac surgery perfusion — including complex aortic procedures, combined valve and coronary surgery, ECMO cannulation and management, and advanced organ preservation in DCD heart transplantation using normothermic regional perfusion.
Tom is the author of the NRP Black Book, the ECMO Program Blueprint, and AI in Perfusion — the first clinical governance framework designed specifically for the use of artificial intelligence tools in cardiac surgery environments.
Available for expert witness consultation in cases involving cardiac surgery, clinical perfusion, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Available to both plaintiff and defense counsel.
Adult CPB, complex aortic, combined procedures, high-risk re-operations
VV, VA, VVA configurations; cannulation strategy; circuit management; weaning
A-NRP and TA-NRP protocols; metabolic monitoring; organ viability assessment
Clinical AI risk taxonomy; HIPAA exposure; institutional policy architecture