Rate My Professor Lisa Cooper

Dr. Cooper was one of the first scientists to document disparities in physician-patient relationships for socially at-risk groups and has designed interventions to improve physicians’ communication skills, patients’ self-management skills, and healthcare organizations’ responses to health disparities in hypertension, depression, and cardiovascular disease. As principal investigator of more than 20 federal and private foundation grants, she is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, including “Race, gender, and partnership in the patient-physician relationship” (JAMA, 1999), “Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician race” (Ann Intern Med, 2003), “Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits” (Am J Public Health, 2004), and the book “Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Her honors include the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, election to the National Academy of Medicine, American Society for Clinical Investigation, and Association of American Physicians, the 2014 Herbert W. Nickens Award, 2017 Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award, 2022 American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist Award, 2023 John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research, and appointment to President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2021). She has mentored more than 75 individuals pursuing careers in medicine, nursing, and public health.