Cold Oxygen
Jeff explores how cooling changes the conditions for oxygen delivery to an organ, and what that means for oxygen-carrier research.
Read the original essayPeople · Questions · Open answers
Advocacy Voices
& Field Notes
We listen to the people this work is for, share their questions and answer them openly.
People waiting for a transplant. People living with one. Families and care partners who stay beside them. Their experience belongs in the conversation about oxygen delivery and organ sustainability.
First independent voice
Cold Ischemia Foundation
Jeff Parke’s foundation brings the patient and care partner perspective into discussions of kidney disease, transplantation and emerging technology.
Visit the Foundation
Advocacy Voices
Jeff Parke
Founder and Executive Director
Cold Ischemia Foundation
Jeff brings personal experience of kidney transplantation and a background in clinical research. He asks what patients and care partners need to understand about the technologies being developed for them.
His Foundation has published an introduction to BHOC and a series of Field Notes. We link to his original pages so readers can hear his perspective directly.
Profile and images: Cold Ischemia Foundation. Jeff’s views remain his own.
Field Notes
Two places to begin.
Independent essays that open useful questions about oxygen delivery and how outcomes are measured.
How Do You Know It Worked?
An essay on measurement, surrogate endpoints and the questions behind a claim of improved oxygen delivery.
Read the original essayThese are independent external essays, presented as perspectives for discussion. They do not establish BHOC-specific clinical outcomes. Scientific findings are reviewed separately in our Evidence section.
Your experience matters
What would you like
us to understand?
What is unclear? What matters most to you? What would you want to ask a team working on oxygen delivery and transplantation?
Tell us what needs a clearer explanation, what is missing, or where you disagree. Your questions and suggestions help us improve the work and decide what to explain next.
Share a question or suggestionWe will ask for your agreement before publishing your name, question or personal story.