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DALLAS, Oct. 28, 2022 – The American Heart Association is presenting one of its 2022 Distinguished Scientist awards to Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA (Hon.), of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The Association honors members who have significantly advanced the understanding of cardiovascular, stroke or brain health as Distinguished Scientists. Seven 2022 Distinguished Scientist awardees will be recognized during the Association’s Scientific Sessions 2022, which will held in person in Chicago and virtually Nov. 5-7.
Dr. Cooper’s work as a researcher has focused on the roles race and social class play in contributing to health disparities. Her work majorly influenced the communication methods health care professionals use when interacting with patients. Early in her career, her research pinpointed how differences between health care professionals and their patients, (e.g., gender, race, etc.) can create communication barriers that affect patient care. This discovery has influenced how patients are engaged as active members of their health care teams. Her work also includes extensive research on the effects of social inequality for patients struggling to manage heart disease or stroke.
Dr. Cooper conducts clinical trials that utilize community-based approaches to improve patient outcomes and increase health equity for patients with heart disease and stroke. In the past two years, Dr. Cooper has been called on to apply her expertise in health communications and community-based approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Cooper is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. She is also a member of the core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a senior advisor at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.
Dr. Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Emory College and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a Master of Public Health focused on epidemiology and health policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and she is board-certified in internal medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Maryland Hospital and the Baltimore VA Medical Center, and completed a fellowship in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and serves on the editorial board of JAMA Health Forum. Dr. Cooper is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. She was recognized with a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship Award and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.
Dr. Cooper is immediate past co-chair of the steering committee for The Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities at the National Institutes of Health, a member of the clinical trial diversity advisory board at Pfizer, Inc., and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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