Event Description
Lisa Cooper, MD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkin University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr.
Cooper’s research program focuses on patient-centered strategies for improving
outcomes and overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. She has
conducted several observational studies to explore and better define barriers
(e.g., patient attitudes, beliefs, and preferences) to equitable care across
racial and ethnic groups and mechanisms for disparities in health status and
healthcare (e.g., patient-physician communication, race discordance between
patients and physicians). Dr. Cooper was the principal investigator of two
randomized trials [funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of
interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for patients with hypertension
and depression in primary care settings and the PI of a Center for Population
Health and Health Disparities -- The Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate
Cardiovascular Disparities -- funded by the NHLBI. She is currently Co-PI of a
UH2/UH3 grant from NHLBI (Comparative Effectiveness of Health System Versus a
Multilevel intervention to Reduce Hypertension Disparities). She also has a
Mid-Career Investigator Award for Patient-Oriented Research and Mentoring in
Cardiovascular Health Disparities from the NHLBI. Dr. Cooper’s research links
patient and clinician attitudes and behaviors with health outcomes; her work
continues to inform the training of physicians and the institutions in which
they practice to deliver high quality, equitable care to increasingly diverse
patient populations. |