Lisa Cooper

{{Short description|American physician (born 1963)}} {{Like resume|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Lisa A. Cooper | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Lisa A. Cooper, 2007 | birth_date = April 12th 1963  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Public health | workplaces = Johns Hopkins University | patrons = | alma_mater = Emory University (B.A., 1984) University of North Carolina (M.D., 1988) Johns Hopkins University (M.P.H., 1993) | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellows Program; Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Lisa A. Cooper''' (born 1963) is an American internal medicine and public health physician who is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Equity in Health and Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University,<ref name="Lisa Cooper">{{Cite web|url=https://research.jhu.edu/bloomberg-professors/lisa-cooper/|title=Lisa Cooper|website=Johns Hopkins Office of Research|access-date=18 March 2020}}</ref> jointly appointed in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and in the departments of Health, Behavior and Society, Health Policy and Management; Epidemiology; and International Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0416615/lisa-cooper|title=Lisa Angeline Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/at-work/2015/12/08/lisa-cooper-health-care-equity/|title=Lisa Cooper named VP for health care equity at Johns Hopkins Medicine|date=2015-12-08|website=The Hub|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref name="Lisa Cooper"/> She is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Cooper is also a Gilman Scholar and a core faculty member in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. She is internationally recognized for her research on the impact of race, ethnicity and gender on the patient-physician relationship and subsequent health disparities.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Lisa Cooper — MacArthur Foundation" /> She is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=2021-09-22|title=President Biden Announces Members of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/22/president-biden-announces-members-of-presidents-council-of-advisors-on-science-and-technology/|access-date=2021-09-28|website=The White House|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2007, she received a MacArthur Fellowship.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/1450/lisa-a-cooper|title=Lisa A. Cooper - Faculty Directory|website=Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref><ref name="Lisa Cooper — MacArthur Foundation">{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/818/|title=Lisa Cooper — MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Cooper was born in Liberia, West Africa, to a mother who is a librarian, and a physician father. She attended the American Cooperative School in Liberia until tenth grade, and the International School of Geneva, in Switzerland, for her last two years of high school before moving to the United States to attend college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.jhu.edu/administration/provost/initiatives/innovation/120531_cooper/transcript|title=Transcript|last=Ruppel|first=Amy|website=web.jhu.edu|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref> She graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in chemistry in 1984 and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine with an M.D., in 1988. After completing her internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Medical System, she became board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1991. She then went to Johns Hopkins University, where she obtained an M.P.H. in 1993. There, she completed a general internal medicine fellowship the following year before joining the university faculty.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/818/|title=Lisa Cooper - MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>

==Career== In 2011, Governor Martin O'Malley created the Maryland Health Care Quality and Costs Council through an executive order, and Cooper was appointed as co-chair of its Cultural Competency Workgroup.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://health.maryland.gov/mhqcc/Documents/Revised_EO_01.01.2011.09.pdf |title=Maryland executive order 01.01.2011.09 |access-date=2020-03-18 |archive-date=2020-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307195239/https://health.maryland.gov/mhqcc/Documents/Revised_EO_01.01.2011.09.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://health.maryland.gov/mhqcc/SiteAssets/SitePages/meetings/Cooper%20Perquera%20-%20Cultural%20Comp.pdf |title=Cultural Competency Workgroup - Progress Report |access-date=2020-03-18 |archive-date=2020-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307194931/https://health.maryland.gov/mhqcc/SiteAssets/SitePages/meetings/Cooper%20Perquera%20-%20Cultural%20Comp.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cooper has testified in congressional hearings in support of funding for health disparities research, equity in healthcare delivery, and diversity and inclusion in the healthcare workforce. In 2019, Cooper testified at the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on "Investing in America's Healthcare" in support of reauthorizing the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).<ref>{{cite report |title=Investing in America's Healthcare |publisher=U.S. Government Publishing Office |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-116hhrg40565/pdf/CHRG-116hhrg40565.pdf |date=4 June 2019 |pages=53–59}}</ref> In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Cooper to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The Council advises the president on developments related to science, innovation, and technology, including health and medicine, helping inform evidence-based decisions.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-22|title=Johns Hopkins health disparities researcher Lisa Cooper named to presidential advisory council|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/09/22/lisa-cooper-presidents-council-advisors-science-technology/|access-date=2021-09-28|website=The Hub|language=en}}</ref>

Cooper is the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity (originally called the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities). The Center, established in 2010, uses a comprehensive strategy to promote equity in health and health care for vulnerable populations.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

Cooper was appointed as the director of the UHI in April 2020, just as racial disparities in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from the novel coronavirus were becoming more evident in the US.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/04/21/lisa-cooper-urban-health-institute/|title=Lisa Cooper named director of Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute|date=21 April 2020}}</ref>

== Research == Cooper’s research has focused on the physician-patient relationship and how race and ethnicity factor into the quality of patient care.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hub.jhu.edu/2012/07/25/lisa-cooper-innovation/|title=Cooper has a different way of looking at health care|first=Charles|last=Limb|date=2012-07-25|website=The Hub|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref> The interventions she has tested include patient-centered strategies to overcome racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/ldi/cooper.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530231125/http://www.upenn.edu/ldi/cooper.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-05-30|title=LDI Research Seminar featuring: Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University|date=2010-05-30|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> She has pioneered approaches for reducing healthcare disparities among minority populations through culturally tailored education programs and patient-centered communication training.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/doctors-unconscious-bias-may-not-influence-their-decisions/|title=Doctors' Unconscious Bias May Not Influence Their Decisions|newspaper=Scientific American|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref><ref name="Lisa Cooper — MacArthur Foundation"/> Her most highly cited paper is a 1999 article in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' (JAMA) that analyzed the role race plays in the patient-physician relationship. The study demonstrated that minority patients found that their physicians involved them in the decision-making process at lower levels than non-minorities did, and that patients seeing physicians of their own race also rated the decision-making process as more participatory than patients seeing physicians of another race.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12848579|journal=JAMA|volume=282|doi=10.1001/jama.282.6.583|pmid=10450723|date=August 1999|vauthors=Cooper-Patrick L, Gallo JJ, Gonzales JJ |issue=6| display-authors = etal|pages=583–9|doi-access=free}}</ref> The first of its kind, this study revealed that differences in the relationship between the patient and physician may be a key factor underlying the already established inequitable quality of health care based on a person's race and ethnicity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegrio.com/2010/02/01/thegrios-100-lisa-cooper/|title=TheGrio's 100: Lisa Cooper, closing the racial gap in health care|date=2010-02-01|website=TheGrio|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> Cooper’s research contributed greatly to two paradigm shifts in healthcare research: patient-centeredness and health disparities. Her research documented the existence of disparities in the quality of medical communication experienced by African Americans and other ethnic minorities compared to whites, and the contribution of implicit racial bias and stereotyping behaviors among physicians to poorer communication in the visits of African American patients. Her interventions have identified the important role of patient activation and engagement in treatment decisions in reducing disparities in health care quality for chronic conditions.<ref name=":0" />

==Awards== * 2005 Election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-asci.org/controllers/asci/AsciProfileController.php?pid=500424|title=ASCI - The American Society for Clinical Investigation|website=www.the-asci.org|access-date=2016-12-07}}</ref> * 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7BF6E54349-A2BF-4FCD-8041-0DA09A56B5B5%7D&notoc=1 |title=Lisa Cooper - MacArthur Foundation |access-date=2019-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315000515/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7BF6E54349-A2BF-4FCD-8041-0DA09A56B5B5%7D&notoc=1 |archive-date=2012-03-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2008 Election to the National Academy of Medicine<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2008/iom-2008.html|title=THREE JHU RESEARCHERS ELECTED TO INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE|last=Parsons|first=Tim|website=Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-07|archive-date=2016-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182711/http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2008/iom-2008.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2009 Named Fellow of the American College of Physicians<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gim/news/2009_News_Items/8-17-09.html|title=Dr. Lisa Cooper Named Fellow of ACP|last=Reynolds|first=Mary C.|website=www.hopkinsmedicine.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> * 2014 Election to the Association of American Physicians * 2014 Herbert W. Nickens Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/aamc-awards/nickens/2014-cooper|title=2014 Herbert W. Nickens Award}}</ref> * 2015 Senior Fellow, W. Montague Cobb Health Institute, National Medical Association * 2017 Helen Rodriguez-Trìas Social Justice Award by the American Public Health Association<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2017/2017-awards|title=APHA announces 2017 award recipients|website=www.apha.org|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>

== Publications == Cooper has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in top journals, including ''JAMA'', Annals of Internal Medicine the ''American Journal of Epidemiology'', the ''American Journal of Public Health'', ''Medical Care'', and the ''Journal of General Internal Medicine''. She has an h-index of 82.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H54KV0wAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Lisa Cooper - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref> She was named "Highly Cited" by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2014/the-research-one-percent-bloomberg-school-faculty-named-highly-cited-by-thomson-reuters.html|title=The Research 1%: Bloomberg School Faculty Named 'Highly Cited' by Thomson Reuters|last1=Benham|first1=Barbara|website=Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health|date=27 June 2014 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>

=== Books ===

* ''Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?'', Johns Hopkins University Press 2021

=== Highly Cited Articles ===

* 2012, LA Cooper, DL Roter, KA Carson, MC Beach, JA Sabin, AG Greenwald, TS Inui. The associations of clinicians' implicit attitudes about race with medical visit communication and patient ratings of interpersonal care in ''American Journal of Public Health''. Vol 102 nº5, 979-987. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300558 * 2004, RL Johnson, D Roter, NR Powe, and LA Cooper, ''Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits'', in ''American Journal of Public Health''. Vol. 94 nº12, 2084-2090. * 2003, LE Boulware, LA Cooper, LE Ratner, TA LaVeist, and NR Powe, ''Race and trust in the leath care system'', in ''Public Health Reports''. Vol. 118 nº4, 358-365. * 2005, MC Beach, EG Price, TL Gary, KA Robinson, A Gozu, A Palacio, C Smarth, MW Jenckes, C Feuerstein, EB Bass, NR Powe, LA Cooper, ''Cultural competence: a systematic review of health care provider educational interventions'', in ''Medical Care''. Vol. 43 nº4, 356-373. * 2003, LA Cooper, DL Roter, RL Johnson, DE Ford, DM Steinwachs, NR Powe, ''Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician race''. Vol. 139 nº11, 907-915. * 1999, L Cooper-Patrick, JJ Gallo, JJ Gonzales, HT Vu, NR Powe, C Nelson, DE Ford, ''Race, gender, and partnership in the patient-physician relationship'', in ''JAMA'', Vol. 282 nº6, 583-589.

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== External links == * [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Cooper+LA&cauthor_id=30791452 Pubmed citations] * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H54KV0wAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar citations] * [https://www.healthequityhub.com/ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity] * [https://urbanhealth.jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute]

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