Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle)

Cooper, Mary Reich
Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, first, middle): / Cooper, Mary Reich
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Provide the following information for the key personnel in the order listed for Form Page 2.
Follow the sample format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.
NAME
Mary Reich Cooper, M.D., J.D. / POSITION TITLE
Chief Quality Officer
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION / DEGREE
(if applicable) / YEAR(s) / FIELD OF STUDY
Duke University / A.B. / 1978 / Education
Temple University School of Medicine / M.D. / 1985 / Medicine
Pace University School of Law / J.D. / 1998 / Health Law
Professional Experience

2000 - present Chief Quality Officer and Vice President, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY

1998 - 2000 Medical Director, Clinical Practice Evaluation, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY

1996 - 1998 Coordinator, Clinical Pathways, New York Hospital, NY, NY

1995 - 1996 Internist, St. Agnes Hospital, White Plains, NY

1990 - 1994 Director, Quality Improvement, Dept. of Med., Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

1986 - 1994 Internist, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Honors and Awards

1995 - 1997 Deans List, Ranking Scholar, Law Review, Pace University School of Law

1985 Alpha Omega Alpha, Temple University School of Medicine

1978 Cum Laude, Kappa Delta Pi, Duke University

Grant Support

1992 Medical Outcomes Research Conference, Primary Care Institute of Temple University School of Medicine, Various Pharmaceutical Companies, $5,000.

1992 HIV Suite: Capital Improvements, Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation, $80,000.

1993 Reducing Falls in the Geriatric Population, Co-Investigator, Philadelphia County Office for the Aging, $90,000.

1993 HIV Case Management Support, Co-Investigator, From All Walks of Life, $42,000.

7/00 - 7/01 Impact of Chest Pain Centers on the Rate of Misdiagnosed AMI, Co-Investigator, MCIC Vermont, Inc., $100,000.

1/01 - 1/03 Use of Information Technology Innovation in Reducing Medical Errors, CoInvestigator, Appropriation, AHRQ and NASA, $1,300,000.

6/01 - 6/03 Patient Safety Research Center, Co-Investigator, Office of Clinical Trials, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, $150,000.

9/01 - 8/04 Reporting Systems and Learning: Best Practices, Co-Investigator, AHRQ, $5.2M

8/02 - 7/04 Improving Perioperative Use of Beta Blockers in Noncardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Initiative, Co-Principal Investigator, NYS Dept. of Health, $714,000 and AHRQ.

1/03 - 12/04 Reducing Errors in the Perioperative Field, Principal Investigator, $100,000. MCIC Vermont, Inc.

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Cooper, Mary Reich
Journal Articles

Phipps EJ, Cooper MR, Greenstein S. The Last Days Of Life: A Retrospective Study of When Resuscitation Decisions Are Made. Family Systems Medicine. 1993; 11: 83-88.

Charlson, ME, Hollenberg, J., Hou J., Pedar M., Pochapin M., Cooper M. Realizing the Potential of Clinical Judgment: A Real Time Strategy for Predicting Outcomes and Cost on the Inpatient Service. Am J Med. 2000 Aug 15; 109(3):189-95.

Wazeka A, DeMaio M, Velacer D, Cooper M, Caplan D. The Impact of a Pediatric Asthma Clinical Pathway on Cost and Length of Stay. Pediatric Pulmonology, Sep 2001.

Oppenheim MI, Vidal C, Velasco F, Boyer A, Cooper MR, Hayes J, Frayer W. Impact of a Computerized Alert During Physician Order Entry on Medication Dosing in Patients with Renal Impairment. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Fall 2002.

Corwin S, Cooper MR, Berman MA, Stein D, Leiman J, Pardes H. Model for a Merger. Academic Medicine, November 2003.

Biviano AB, Giglio J, Lazar EJ, Cooper MR, Sullivan J, Hurley E, Sciacca RR, Tenenbaum J, Bergmann SR, Rabbani LE. Critical Pathways in Cardiology: A Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc., March 2005.

Dawson A, Orsini MJ, Cooper MR, Wollenburg K. Medication Safety: Reliability Of Preference Cards, submitted for publication to AORN Journal, May 3, 2005.

Orsini MJ, Dawson A, Wollenburg K, Diamente R, Cooper MR. Estimating The Risk Of Medication Errors On The Sterile Surgical Field: A Calculation Of Error Opportunity, submitted for publication to JAMA, June 9, 2005.

Book Chapters

Cooper MR. “Quality Improvement” in Health Services Administration, Lawrence Wolper, ed., 2nd ed., published November 1998.

Cooper MR. “Quality Improvement” in Health Services Administration, Lawrence Wolper, ed., 3rd ed., November.

Abstracts

Sollano JA, Cooper MR, Lazar EJ, Corwin SJ. “Hospital Volume Matters: A Risk-Adjusted Volume-Outcome Analysis of In-Hospital Deaths In New York State Following Acute Myocardial Infarction”, American Heart Association, Nov. 2000.

Lazar, EJ, Sollano, JA, Reich Cooper, M, Corwin, SJ, Schwartz A. “Does Hypertension Affect Outcome in Acute Myocardial Infarction?”, American Society of Hypertension, San Francisco, May 2001.

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