Prior to joining UofL he was a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH/F32) at the University of Pittsburgh. He was also previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Cross-Disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer program (NIH/R25) at Boston University. He has received honors and awards for his work from the American Heart Association, the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Kopechek has over 10 years of experience in image-guided therapy research and published 18 peer-reviewed journal articles as of 2016. He established the Theranostic Ultrasound Laboratory at the University of Louisville in 2016.