Lebron Cooper Cooper

Dr. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he currently serves as Chief of Anesthesiology, Co-Medical Director of Perioperative Services, and site director for cardiothoracic anesthesiology at University of Miami Hospital and as the Director of Clinical Operations at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

He has been a member of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists since 1996. Dr. Cooper previously served for three years on the SCA Scientific Program Committee, and he has moderated the Thoracic Session, the Electrophysiology Session, and the Hands-on Thoracic Workshop at the SCA Annual Meeting on numerous occasions.

Dr. Cooper is a co-organizer, responsible for abstract submission and review, of the new and upcoming Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium, to be held this coming year in Boston immediately prior to the SCA annual meeting. He has presented several abstracts at the Annual meeting and has been an active senior presenter of PBLD sessions at the Annual Meetings of SCA and ASA, working with junior faculty members to encourage their participation and professional advancement.

He serves on the Steering Committee for the SCA FOCUS Initiative, chairs its PR Committee, and is the liaison to SCA for Educational Outreach. As an SCA Board Member, he hopes to work with other members to adopt creative ways of increasing participation of fellows and young practitioners at the Annual Meeting and as Society members, to continue promoting recognition of fellowship training in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, and to advance mutual goals of anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses, perfusionists and others by promoting the safest possible care of the cardiothoracic surgical patient.