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David S. Cooper, MD, MPH

  • Medical Director, Heart Institute
  • Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
  • Medical Director, Cardiac Anesthesia Recovery Unit
  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

Dr. Cooper is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care. He is currently the Heart Institute safety officer and associate medical director of the CICU at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Cooper's career over the past 10 years has focused on the care of critically ill neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults with complex congenital heart disease (CHD). He has a particular interest in how care in the intensive care unit can impact morbidity with a specific interest in hematologic, infectious and renal morbidities. Additionally, Dr. Cooper has had extensive involvement with the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4), including the development of the PC4 CICU database that will be used to track outcomes and improve outcomes for patients with critical cardiac disease.

MD: University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, 1996.

MPH: University of South Florida College of Public Health, Tampa, Florida, 1999.

Residency: All Children’s Hospital, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Fellowships: Cardiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Critical Care, Children’s Medical Center Dallas, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.

Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Critical Care.

Interests

Pediatric cardiac critical care; patient safety; extracorporeal life support

Services and Specialties

Nephrology - Acute Care, Heart, Cardiac Intensive Care

Interests

Acute/chronic kidney injury; anticoagulation on extracorporeal support; abnormal sleep patterns in patients with congenital heart disease; antibiotic stewardship in the CVICU; correlation of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and outcome in the cardiovascular intensive care unit; quality and outcomes in the CICU 

Research Areas

Cardiology

Additional Languages

Spanish

Insurance Information

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Publications

Selected

Higher Flow on Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatrics Is Associated With a Lower Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury. Reagor, JA; Clingan, S; Gao, Z; Morales, DL S; Tweddell, JS; Bryant, R; Young, W; Cavanaugh, J; Cooper, DS. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020; 32:1015-1020.

Selected

Central Venous Catheter Utilization and Complications in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU: A Report From the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). DiPietro, LM; Gaies, M; Banerjee, M; Donohue, JE; Zhang, W; DeSena, HC; Graham, EM; Sasaki, J; Moga, M; Prodhan, P; et al. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:729-737.

Selected

Central Venous Catheter Utilization and Complications in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU: A Report From the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4)*. DiPietro, LM; Gaies, M; Banerjee, M; Donohue, JE; Zhang, W; DeSena, HC; Graham, EM; Sasaki, J; Moga, M; Prodhan, P; et al. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:729-737.

Selected

Outcomes of Pediatric Patients Treated With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Intractable Supraventricular Arrhythmias. Ghaleb, S; Thiagarajan, RR; Cooper, DS; Czosek, RJ. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:e547-e556.

Selected

Fluid overload and fluid removal in pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation requiring continuous renal replacement therapy: a multicenter retrospective cohort study. Gorga, SM; Sahay, RD; Askenazi, DJ; Bridges, BC; Cooper, DS; Paden, ML; Zappitelli, M; Gist, KM; Gien, J; Basu, RK; et al. Pediatric Nephrology. 2020; 35:871-882.

Selected

Pre-operative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio predicts low cardiac output in children after cardiac surgery. Iliopoulos, I; Alder, MN; Cooper, DS; Villarreal, EG; Loomba, R; Sahay, RD; Fei, L; Steele, PE; Flores, S. Cardiology in the Young. 2020; 30:521-525.

Selected

Acute Kidney Injury, Fluid Overload, and Outcomes in Children Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for a Respiratory Indication. Mallory, PP; Selewski, DT; Askenazi, DJ; Cooper, DS; Fleming, GM; Paden, ML; Murphy, L; Sahay, R; King, E; Zappitelli, M; et al. ASAIO Journal. 2020; 66:319-326.

Selected

Clinically Asymptomatic Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Infants with Single-Ventricle Physiology. Stamm, RW; Henry, BM; Sawnani, H; Simakajornboon, N; Rulong, G; Ollberding, NJ; Hanke, SP; Dye, TJ; Cooper, DS. Journal of Pediatrics. 2020; 218:92-97.

Selected

Improvement in Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Outcomes Through Interhospital Collaboration. Gaies, M; Pasquali, SK; Banerjee, M; Dimick, JB; Birkmeyer, JD; Zhang, W; Alten, JA; Chanani, N; Cooper, DS; Costello, JM; et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019; 74:2786-2795.

Selected

Evaluation of Pediatric Cardiac ICU Advanced Practice Provider Education and Practice Variation. Justice, LB; Callow, L; Loomba, R; Harvey, J; FitzGerald, M; Cooper, DS. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2019; 20:1164-1169.

From the Blog


Surgery for a Child with Trisomy 18
Heart and Lung

Surgery for a Child with Trisomy 18

David S. Cooper, MD, MPH, David L. S. Morales, MD ...3/20/2022

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