CHRISTOPHER J. COOPER, M.D.,听F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.H.A.
Distinguished University Professor
Email: christopher.cooper@utoledo.edu
Education
- 1985 - B.A., Biology major, Philosophy minor, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
- 1988 - M.D., Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Post Graduate Training, Residencies and Fellowships
- 1988-1989: Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Internship
- 1989-1991: Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Residency
- 1991-1994: Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Cardiology, Fellowship
- 1992:Harvard School of Public Health, Clinical Effectiveness Course: Intensive 2 month course in biostatistics, epidemiology, decision analysis, and health policy research
Employment
- 1994 - 1998: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Toledo, OH
- 1998 - 2002: Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Toledo, OH
- 1999 - 2006: Director, Cardiovascular Research, Medical University of Ohio (formerly Medical College of Ohio), 听Toledo, OH
- 2002 鈥 2012: Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, 淫妻社 - Health Science Campus (formerly Medical University of Ohio), Toledo, OH
- 2002-Present: Professor of Medicine, 淫妻社 - Health Science Campus, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toledo, OH
- 2002-Present: Director, UT Clinical Coordinating Center, 淫妻社 - Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH
- 2005-2008: Director, Cardiovascular Interventional Fellowship, 淫妻社 - Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH
- 2007-2008: Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship, 淫妻社 - Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH
- 2008-2011: Director, Heart and Vascular Center, 淫妻社 Medical Center, Toledo, OH
- 2012-2013: Interim Chairman, Department of Medicine, 淫妻社, Toledo, OH
- 2013-2014: Chairman, Department of Medicine, 淫妻社, Toledo, OH
- 2013-2014: Vice President, 淫妻社 Physicians
- 2014-2014: Vice Chief of Staff, 淫妻社 Medical Center, Toledo, OH
- 2014-2023: Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs, 淫妻社, Toledo, OH
- 2014-2023: CEO, 淫妻社 Physicians
- 2014-2024: Dean, College of Medicine, 淫妻社, Toledo, OH
Certifications and Licensures
- Internal Medicine, The American Board of Internal Medicine, September 1991, #137285, recertification 2004, 2014, exp. 2024
- Cardiovascular Disease, The American Board of Internal Medicine, January 1995, #137285, recertification 2004, 2014, exp. 2024
- Interventional Cardiology, The American Board of Internal Medicine, January 2000, #137285, recertification 2009, exp 2019
- Ohio Medical License #66906, exp. 04/01/2017
Awards and Commendations
- Mortar Board, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1983
- Award for Highest Course Honors, University of Cincinnati, Department of Physiology, 1985
- Magna cum laude graduate, with Honors in Major, Biology, Wittenberg University, 1985
- Academic Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1985-1986
- Pharmacology Award, Merrell Dow Research Institute, 1986
- Academic Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1986-1987
- UFCW Scholarship, 1986-1987
- Third year Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Cincinnati, 1987
- Academic Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 1987-1988
- Valedictorian, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, 1988
- Finalist, Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Awards, American Heart Association, Council on Clinical Cardiology, 69th Scientific
- Sessions, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1996
- "Best Doctors in America" Award, Issued by: Best Doctors in America, Midwest, 2002
- Elected Fellow, American Heart Association, Council of High Blood Pressure Research, 2004
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥 Award, Issued by: Castle Connolly, 2006
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥 Award, Issued by: Castle Connolly, 2007
- College of Medicine Award for Excellence in Clinical Research. 淫妻社, 2008
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥. Award, issued by Castle Connolly, 2008
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥. Award, issued by Castle Connolly, 2009
- 鈥淏est Doctor鈥檚 in America: Award, Issued by Best Doctors, LLC. 2010
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥. Award, issued by Castle Connolly, 2010
- 鈥淏est Doctor鈥檚 in America: Award, Issued by Best Doctors, LLC 2011
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥. Award, issued by Castle Connolly, 2011
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥.听 Award, issued by US News and World Report, 2012
- 鈥淏est Doctors in America鈥 Award, issued by Best Doctors, LLC. 2013
- 鈥淏est Doctors in America鈥 Award, issued by Best Doctors, LLC, 2014
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥 Award, Issued by Castle Connolly, 2014
- 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Top Doctors鈥 Award, Issued by Castle Connolly, 2015
Major Research Interests
Renovascular Hypertension;听Renal insufficiency and Cardiovascular Events;听Cell therapy for vascular diseases
Publications
Publications by Dr. Cooper since inception of CHPM in January 1st, 2012:
1) Moza A, Taleb M,听Cooper CJ, Burket MW.听听听听Cardiovasc Interv Ther.听2013 Jan;28(1):98-100.听 Epub 2012 Aug 9. 听PMID: 22875748.
2) Moza A, Sheikh M, Rock-Willoughby J,听Cooper C, Kanjwal Y.听听听Heart Lung. 2012. PMID: 22770997.
3) Liu C, Bai Y, Chen Y, Wang Y, Sottejeau Y, Liu L, Li X, Lingrel JB, Malhotra D,听Cooper CJ, Shapiro JI, Xie ZJ, Tian J.听听J Biol Chem. 2012 May 11;287(20):16390-8. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.304451. Epub 2012 Mar 27. PMID: 22451662
4) Taleb MM, Sheikh MA,听Cooper CJ, Tinkel JL.听听Cardiovasc Interv Ther.听2012 May;27(2):127-30. Epub 2012 Feb 14.听 PMID: 22623009.
5) Sheikh M, Bruhl SR, Omer S, Schwaan T, Grubb B,听Cooper C, Kanjwal Y.听听Pacing Clin Electrophysiol.听2012 Jul;35(7):e185-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03112.x. Epub 2011 Apr 28. PMID: 21535035.
6) Haller S, Kalra PA, Ritchie JP, Chrysochou T, Brewster P, He W, Yu H, Shapiro JI,听Cooper CJ. Effect of CD40 and sCD40L on Renal Function and Survival in Patients with Renal Artery Stenosis.听Hypertension. 2013 Apr;61(4):9894-900.听 Epub 2013 Feb 11.听 PMID: 23399713.
7) Klochan SA, Taleb M, Hoover MJ, Mauro VF, Anandan V, Willey J,听Cooper CJ. Illicit narcotic injection masquerading as acute pulmonary embolism.听Vascular Medicine. 2013 Apr; 18(2):92-4.听 Epub 2013 Mar 14.听 PMID: 23493623.
8) Anderson W, Eshghinejad A, Azadegan R,听Cooper CJ, Elahinia M. A variable stiffness transverse mode shape memory alloy actuator as a minimally invasive organ positioner. Accepted April 2013 for publication in听European Physical Journal 鈥 Special TOPICS.
9)听Cooper CJ, Murphy TP, Cutlip DE, Jamerson K, Henrich, W.听 Stenting and Medical Therapy for Atherosclerotic Renal-Artery Stenosis.听听N Engl J Med.听听2013 Nov 18. (Epub ahead of print) PMID: 24245566.
10) Haller ST, Evans KL, Folt DA, Drummond CA,听Cooper CJ. Mechanisms and treatments for renal artery stenosis. Discov Med.听2013 Dec;16(90):255-60. Review. PMID: 24333404
11) Murphy TP,听Cooper CJ, Cutlip DE, Matsumoto A, Jamerson K, Rundback J, Rosenfeld KA, Henrich W, Shapiro J, Massaro J, Yen CH, Burtch H, Thum C, Redi D, Dworkin L. Roll-in experience from the cardiovascular outcomes with renal atherosclerotic lesions (CORAL) study.听J Vasc Interv Radiol听2014 Apr;25(4):511-20 DOI: 10.1016/J.JVIR2013.09.018.EPUB 2013 Dec 8.
12) Khan AR, Sheikh M, Kaw D.听Cooper CJ, Khouri S. Prevalence and factors associated with left ventricular remodeling in renal artery stenosis.听J Am Soc Hypert. 2014 Apr;8(4):254-61 DOI:10.1016/J.JASH.2014.01.008 EPUB 2014 Jan 27 (EPUB ahead of print).听
13) Colyer WR,听Cooper CJ.听 The Future of Renal Artery Stenting.听 Accepted for publication in听Interventional Cardiology听April 2014.
14) Drummond CA, Sayed M, Evans KL, Shi H, Wang X, Haller ST, Liu J,听Cooper CJ, Xie Z, Shapiro JI, Tian J.听听Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2014 Jun 15;306(12):H1631-43. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00102.2014. Epub 2014 Apr 18. PMID: 24748592
15) Murphy TP, Dworkin LD,听Cooper CJ.听听N Engl J Med. 2014 May 8;370(19):1854-5. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1402687. No abstract available. PMID: 24806166
16) Khan AR, Sheikh MA, Kaw D,听Cooper CJ, Khouri SJ.听J Am Soc Hypertens. 2014 May;8(5):361. doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2014.02.006. Epub 2014 Feb 22. No abstract available. PMID: 24726948
17) Evans, KL, Tuttle, KR, Folt, DA, Dawson, T, Haller, ST, Brewster, PS, He, W, Jamerson, K, Dworkin, L, Cutlip, D, Murphy, TP, Reid, D, D鈥橝gostino, Sr., RB,听 Henrich, W,听Cooper, CJ. Use of Renin-Angiotensin Inhibitors In People with Renal-Artery Stenosis.听Clin J Am Soc Nephrol.听2014 Jul;9(7):1199-206. Doi:10.2215/cjn.
18) Moza A, Moukarbel GV,听Cooper CJ, Bhat PK.听听听听听听听听听 Cardiovasc Interv Ther. 2015 Jul;30(3):279-82. doi: 10.1007/s12928-014-0284-2. Epub 2014 Jul 16. PMID: 25027049
19) Hendricks NJ, Matsumoto AH, Angle JF, Baheti A, Sabri SS, Park AW, Stone JR, Patrie JT, Dworkin L,听Cooper CJ, Murphy TP, Cutlip DE.听听Vasc Med. 2014 Oct;19(5):363-7. doi: 10.1177/1358863X14544715. Epub 2014 Jul 31.
20) Chowdhury MA, Moza A, Siddiqui NS, Bonnell M,听Cooper CJ.听听Heart Lung. 2015 Jul-Aug;44(4):344-6. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2015.05.001. Epub 2015 May 27. PMID: 26025763
21) Folt DA, Evans KL, Brahmandam S, He W, Brewster PS, Yu S, Murphy TP, Cutlip DE, Dworkin LD, Jamerson K, Henrich W, Kalra PA, Tobe S, Thomson K, Holden A, Rayner BL, Grinfeld L, Haller ST,听Cooper CJ.听听J Am Soc Hypertens. 2015 Jun;9(6):443-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2015.03.007. Epub 2015 Mar 28.
22) Murphy TP,听Cooper CJ, Matsumoto AH, Cutlip DE, Pencina KM, Jamerson K, Tuttle KR, Shapiro JI, D'Agostino R, Massaro J, Henrich W, Dworkin LD.听听J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Dec 8;66(22):2487-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.09.073.
23) Drummond CA, Hill MC, Shi H, Fan X, Xie JX, Haller ST, Kennedy DJ, Liu J, Garrett MR, Xie Z,听Cooper CJ, Shapiro JI, Tian J.听听Physiol Genomics. 2015 Dec 23:physiolgenomics.00116.2015. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00116.2015. [Epub ahead of print]