Dr. Cooper is a board-certified internist and pulmonologist. He currently sits on the board for Pulmonary Diseases of ABIM. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama Medical School and Chief of the Pulmonary Section at the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was Director for the University of Alabama Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training Program for 15 years and has received multiple teaching awards from the university.
Currently, Dr. Cooper serves on two Institutional Review Boards, one at the Birmingham VAMC and the for the entire Veterans Affairs human research program (VA Central IRB). He has been involved in basic and clinical research through his entire career. He has received research funding through NIH and VA as well as other organizations.
Dr. Cooper earned his medical degree at Duke University, completed a medical internship at the University of Washington and residency at the University of Virginia. He completed fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University prior to joining the faculty there, before moving to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
He currently is funded through the NIH for clinical research in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
