Colleague inspired by Dr. Lisa Cooper

Assistant Professor, Dr. Vanya Jones shared a touching tweet about seeing Lisa Cooper featured in the exhibit, Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins, currently on display at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 
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About the Exhibit

Established by the Black Faculty & Staff Association, the Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins Exhibit profiles various influential individuals who’ve played a critical role in advances in the medical community.

Center Director, Dr. Lisa Cooper, receives high-praise for her contributions to the medical community. Below is her profiled from the related website:

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Genius for medical equity

Lisa Cooper asks questions and finds answers that cause the medical community to refine its practices. From what she refers to as her “exemplary professional home” at Johns Hopkins, Cooper, an internist, epidemiologist and professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, conducts landmark studies on racial and ethnic disparities in disease prevalence and risk and care delivery. In one study, she and her colleagues found that African-American patients treated by African-American physicians are more assertive and involved in their own care than those treated by white physicians. Another study showed that cultural and social factors strongly influence whether and where people seek help for mental illness.

In recognition of her promise, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded her a $500,000 unrestricted “genius grant” in 2007. She also has a Mid-Career Investigator Award for Patient-Oriented Research in Cardiovascular Health Disparities from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and is the principal investigator for the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities.

According to Myron E. Weisfeldt, chairman of the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Cooper’s work is essential as the medical community strives to deliver high-quality care to an increasingly diverse patient population. “The best physicians are going to be those who understand the purpose and the substance of Lisa Cooper’s scholarship and her extraordinary understanding of clinical care,” he said. “There’s no question that her work will inspire generations to come of doctors and doctors-in-training.”

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