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Lisa A. Cooper, MD

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  • Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
  • Professor

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2024 E. Monument Street
Suite #2-500
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

410-614-3659
410-614-0588

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Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Dr. Lisa Cooper - TEDxBaltimore 2014

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Education

MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1993
MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988
BA, Emory University, 1984

Overview

Dr. Lisa Cooper is a Liberian-born general internist, social epidemiologist, and health services researcher. She was one of the first scientists to document disparities in the quality of relationships between physicians and patients from socially at-risk groups. She then designed innovative interventions targeting physicians’ communication skills, patients’ self-management skills, and healthcare organizations’ ability to address needs of populations experiencing health disparities. She is the author of over 180 publications and has been the principal investigator of more than 15 federal and private foundation grants. She has also been a devoted mentor to more than 60 individuals seeking careers in medicine, nursing, and public health.

Dr. Cooper has received several honors for her pioneering research, teaching, and mentoring. She has also been recognized by several community organizations for her community engagement and advocacy to address health disparities. Currently, Dr. Cooper directs The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, where she and her transdisciplinary team work with stakeholders from healthcare and the community to implement rigorous clinical trials, identifying interventions that alleviate racial and income disparities in social determinants and health outcomes. The Center also provides training to a new generation of health equity scholars and advocates for social change with policymakers.

Honors and Awards

2007 Fellow, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Member, National Academy of Medicine

Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation

Member, Association of American Physicians

Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health

Herbert W. Nickens Award, American Association of Medical Colleges

Herbert W. Nickens Award, Society of General Internal Medicine

Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award, American Public Health Association

Picker/Commonwealth Scholar in Patient-Centered Care Research, The Commonwealth Fund

Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Scholar, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

George Engel Research Award, American Academy of Communication in Healthcare

James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Preventive Medicine, American College of Physicians

Fellow, American College of Physicians

Watkins-Saunders Award, American Heart Association

One of 100 “History Makers in the Making”, MSNBC’s  theGrio.com

Distinguished Alumni Award, Emory College

Gilman Scholar, Johns Hopkins University

James F. Fries Professorship in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University

David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award, Department of Medicine

Vice-Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women in Science, School of Medicine

Provost’s Inaugural Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring, Johns Hopkins University

Provost’s Inaugural Award for Excellence in Diversity, Johns Hopkins University

Excellence in Teaching, Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • patient-centered care
  • patient attitudes
  • patient-physician communication
  • race
  • disparities
  • ethnic minorities, African Americans
  • depression
  • hypertension, primary care

Selected publications from the last 5 years

  • Cooper LA, Purnell TS, Ibe CA, Halbert JP, Bone LR, Carson KA, Hickman D, Simmons M, Vachon A, Robb I, Martin-Daniels M, Dietz KB, Golden SH, Crews DC, Hill-Briggs F, Marsteller JA, Boulware LE, Miller ER, Levine DM. Reaching for Health Equity and Social Justice in Baltimore: The Evolution of an Academic-Community Partnership and Conceptual Framework to Address Hypertension Disparities. Ethn Dis. 2016 Jul 21;26(3):369-78.
  • Cooper LA, Boulware LE, Miller ER 3rd, Golden SH, Carson KA, Noronha G, Huizinga MM, Roter DL, Yeh HC, Bone LR, Levine DM, Hill-Briggs F, Charleston J, Kim M, Wang NY, Aboumatar H, Halbert JP, Ephraim PL, Brancati FL. Creating a transdisciplinary research center to reduce cardiovascular health disparities in Baltimore, Maryland: lessons learned. Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov;103(11):e26-38.
  • Cooper LA, Ghods Dinoso BK, Ford DE, Roter DL, Primm AB, Larson SM, Gill JM, Noronha GJ, Shaya EK, Wang NY. Comparative effectiveness of standard versus patient-centered collaborative care interventions for depression among African Americans in primary care settings: the BRIDGE Study. Health Serv Res. 2013 Feb;48(1):150-74.
  • Cooper LA, Roter DL, Carson KA, Beach MC, Sabin JA, Greenwald AG, Inui TS. The Associations of Clinicians' Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care. Am J Public Health. 2012 May;102(5):979-987.
  • Cooper LA, Roter DL, Carson KA, Bone LR, Larson SM, Miller ER 3rd, Barr MS, Levine DM. A randomized trial to improve patient-centered care and hypertension control in underserved primary care patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Nov;26(11):1297-304.

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