John R. Cooper, Jr., MD
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Texas Heart Institute Positions

  • Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
  • Teaching Staff, Anesthesia & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
  • Editorial Board, Texas Heart Institute Journal
  • Teaching Staff, Cardiovascular Anesthesiology Fellowship

Interests

  • Cardiovascular anesthesiology
  • pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiology
  • critical care medicine
  • extracorporeal circulation
  • echocardiography.

Education

  • Medical School:

    Tulane University School of Medicine

  • Internship:

    University of Tennessee

  • Residency:

    University of Mississippi Medical Center

Academic & Clinical Affiliations

  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
  • BCM/THI Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology

Certifications

  • Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology
  • Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology

Honors, Awards and Memberships

Publications

Metz, S. and Cooper, J. R. (2022). The Texas Heart Institute anesthesia experience in China, 1985. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth, S1053-0770(22)00590–0. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2022.08.021.
Cooper, J. R. (2021). Who was the first cardiovascular anesthesia fellow? Anesth Analg 133, e69. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000005600.
Youngblood, S. C., Tolpin, D. A., LeMaire, S. A. et al. (2013). Complications of cerebrospinal fluid drainage after thoracic aortic surgery: a review of 504 patients over 5 years. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 146, 166–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.01.041.
Hoover, L. R., Dinavahi, R., Cheng, W.-P. et al. (2009). Jugular venous oxygenation during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in patients at risk for abnormal cerebral autoregulation: influence of alpha-Stat versus pH-stat blood gas management. Anesth Analg 108, 1389–1393. https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0b013e318187c39d.
Collard, C. D., Anton, J. M., Cooper, J. R. et al. (2008). Contributions of anesthesiology to the surgical treatment of cerebrovascular disease: the role of Arthur S. Keats, M.D. Anesthesiology 108, 756–758. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181672648.
Wadia, Y., Cooper, J. R., Bracey, A. W. et al. (2008). Intraoperative anticoagulation management during cardiac transplantation for a patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and a left ventricular assist device. Tex Heart Inst J 35, 62–65
Barakat, O., Cooper, J. R., Riggs, S. A. et al. (2007). Complex liver resection for a large intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in a Jehovah’s witness: a strategy to avoid transfusion. J Surg Oncol 96, 249–253. https://doi.org/10.1002/jso.20799.
Cooper, J. R., Abrams, J., Frazier, O. H. et al. (2006). Fatal pulmonary microthrombi during surgical therapy for end-stage heart failure: possible association with antifibrinolytic therapy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 131, 963–968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.01.005.
Grigore, A., Poindexter, B., Vaughn, W. K. et al. (2005). Alterations in alpha adrenoreceptor density and localization after mechanical left ventricular unloading with the Jarvik flowmaker left ventricular assist device. J Heart Lung Transplant 24, 609–613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2004.03.005.
Chen, L., Bracey, A. W., Radovancevic, R. et al. (2004). Clopidogrel and bleeding in patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 128, 425–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.02.019.