David S. Cooper, MD, MPH, MBA
- Network Officer, Heart Institute
- Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
- david.cooper@cchmc.org
- Board Certified
About
Biography
I am board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric critical care. I am currently the Heart Institute safety officer and associate medical director of the CICU at Cincinnati Children’s.
My 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). I have 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, I have 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.
MBA: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2024.
Interests
Pediatric cardiac critical care; patient safety; extracorporeal life support
Services and Specialties
Interests
Research acute/chronic kidney injury; anticoagulation on extracorporeal support; teamwork; quality, safety and outcomes in the CICU
Research Areas
Additional Languages
SpanishPublications
Higher Flow on Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatrics Is Associated With a Lower Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020; 32:1015-1020.
Central Venous Catheter Utilization and Complications in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU: A Report From the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:729-737.
Central Venous Catheter Utilization and Complications in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU: A Report From the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4)*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:729-737.
Outcomes of Pediatric Patients Treated With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Intractable Supraventricular Arrhythmias. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2020; 21:e547-e556.
Pre-operative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio predicts low cardiac output in children after cardiac surgery. Cardiology in the Young. 2020; 30:521-525.
Clinically Asymptomatic Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Infants with Single-Ventricle Physiology. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2020; 218:92-97.
Improvement in Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Outcomes Through Interhospital Collaboration. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019; 74:2786-2795.
Evaluation of Pediatric Cardiac ICU Advanced Practice Provider Education and Practice Variation. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2019; 20:1164-1169.
From the Blog
Surgery for a Child with Trisomy 18
David S. Cooper, MD, MPH, MBA, David L. S. Morales, MD ...3/20/2022
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