Honors and Awards
Fellow, Picker/Commonwealth Scholars Program in Patient-Centered Care Research, The Commonwealth Fund
Harold Amos Scholar, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation
Herbert W. Nickens Award for exceptional commitment to cultural diversity in medicine and improving minority health, Society of General Internal Medicine
Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Member, National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine
George Engel Research Award, American Academy of Communication in Healthcare
Fellow, American College of Physicians
Listed as one of 100 “History Makers in the Making” by MSNBC’s theGrio.com
Distinguished Alumni Award, Emory College
Gilman Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
James F. Fries Professorship in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Selected Publications
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Carson KA, Beach MC, Sabin JA, Greenwald AG, Inui TS. The Associations of Clinicians' Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care. Am J Public Health. 2012 May;102(5):979-987.
Haider AH, Sexton J, Sriram N, Cooper LA, Efron DT, Swoboda S, Villegas CV, Haut ER, Bonds M, Pronovost PJ, Lipsett PA, Freischlag JA, Cornwell EE 3rd. Association of unconscious race and social class bias with vignette-based
clinical assessments by medical students. JAMA. 2011 Sep 7;306(9):942-51.
Thornton RL, Powe NR, Roter D, Cooper LA. Patient-physician social concordance, medical visit communication and patients' perceptions of health care quality. Patient Educ Couns. 2011 Dec;85(3):e201-8.
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Carson KA, Bone LR, Larson SM, Miller ER 3rd, Barr MS, Levine DM. A randomized trial to improve patient-centered care and hypertension control in underserved primary care patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Nov;26(11):1297-304.
Bleich SN, Simon A, Cooper LA. Impact of patient-provider race concordance on rates of weight-related counseling in visits by black and white obese individuals. Obesity 2011 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print].
Cooper LA, Ford DE, Ghods BK, Roter DL, Primm AB, Larson SM , Gill JM, Noronha GJ, Shaya EK, Wang N-Y. A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: Study Protocol NCT00243425. Implementation Science. 2010 Feb 23;5(1):18
Cooper LA. A 41-year-old African-American man with poorly controlled hypertension: review of patient and physician factors related to hypertension treatment adherence. JAMA 2009; 301 (12):1260-1273.
Cené CW, Roter D, Carson KA, Miller ER, Cooper LA. The Effect of Patient Race and Blood Pressure Control on Patient-Physician Communication. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2009; 24:1057–64.
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Bone LR, Larson SM, Miller ER, Barr MS, Carson KA, Levine DM. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interventions to Enhance Patient-Physician Partnership, Patient Adherence and High Blood Pressure Control among Ethnic Minorities and Poor Persons: Study Protocol NCT00123045. Implementation Science; 2009 Feb 19;4(1):7.
Ghods BK, Roter DL, Ford DE, Larson S, Arbelaez JJ, Cooper LA. Patient-Physician Communication in the Primary Care Visits of African Americans and Whites with Depression. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2008;23:600-6.
Casagrande SS, Gary TL, LaVeist TL, Gaskin DJ, Cooper LA. Perceived Discrimination and Adherence to Medical Care in a Racially Integrated Community. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2007; 22:389-95.
Beach MC, Gary TL, Price EG, Robinson K, Gozu A, Palacio A, Smarth C, Jenckes M, Feuerstein C, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Improving health care quality for racial/ethnic minorities: A systematic review of the best evidence regarding provider and organization interventions. BMC Public Health 2006 Apr 24;6(1):104.
Clever SL, Ford DE, Rubenstein LV, Rost KM, Meredith LS, Sherbourne CD, Wang N-Y, Arbelaez JJ, Cooper LA. Primary Care Patients’ Involvement in Decision Making Is Associated with Improvement in Depression. Medical Care 2006; 44:398-405.
Cooper LA, Beach MC, Johnson RL, Inui TS. Delving Below the Surface: Understanding How Race and Ethnicity Influence Relationships in Healthcare. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006; 21:S21-27.
Beach MC, Price EG, Gary TL, Robinson KA, Gozu A, Smarth C, Palacio A, Jenckes MW, Feuerstein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Cultural competence: A systematic review of health care provider educational interventions. Medical Care 2005;43:356-373.
Johnson RL, Roter DL, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Patient race and the quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits. American Journal of Public Health 2004; 94:2084-2090.
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Johnson RL, Ford DE, Steinwachs DM, Powe NR. Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician race. Annals of Internal Medicine 2003;139:907-915.
Cooper LA, Gonzales JJ, Gallo JJ, Rost KM, Meredith LS, Rubenstein LV, Wang N-Y, Ford DE. The acceptability of treatment for depression among African-American, Hispanic, and White primary care patients. Medical Care 2003;41:479-89
Boulware LE, Cooper LA, Ratner LE, LaVeist TA, Powe NR. Race and trust in the health care system. Public Health Reports 2003; 118:358-365
Cooper LA, Roter DL. Patient-Provider Communication: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Process and Outcomes of Healthcare. In: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. (2002) Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, pp.552-593.
Cooper LA, Hill MN, Powe NR. Designing and evaluating interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2002;17:477-486.
Cooper-Patrick L, Gallo JJ, Gonzales JJ, Vu HT, Powe NR, Nelson C, Ford DE. Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship. JAMA 1999;282:583-589.
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
