Congratulations to our Chairman Dr. Richard Cooper!

Dr. Cooper was recently awarded the 2011 Senior Scientist Award from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Richard S. Cooper, MD, is the Anthony B. Traub Professor of Community and Family Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology.

Dr. Cooper received his M.D. from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, completed a residency and fellowship in cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a subsequent NIH-funded fellowship in epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition and preventive cardiology at Northwestern University. He joined the Stritch School of Medicine in 1989. Richard's research has focused on the evolution of cardiovascular disease across the course of the African diaspora, determining the role of environmental conditions in the evolution of cardiovascular risk status. In addition, his work has utilized the tools of genetic epidemiology to explore the pathogenesis of hypertension and obesity. One of his collaborative projects helped provide the rationale for the large scale NIH mapping project, the HapMap. Dr. Cooper received a MERIT award from the NIH in 1998. He chaired the Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section for NIH from 2000 to 2002; serves as a consultant to the WHO and CDC on issues related to control of cardiovascular disease in developing countries; and is Course Director for an annual training program in sub-Saharan Africa. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH) from 2008 to 2011.