Carnell Cooper, MD, FACS
Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Dimensions Healthcare System
Dr. Carnell Cooper is Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Dimensions Healthcare System as well as the Designated Institutional Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs of Prince George’s Hospital Center in the Maryland/D.C. metropolitan area. He is also Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an Attending Physician at the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Cooper was born in Dillon, South Carolina (population 5,000) in 1955. As the recipient of a scholarship from “A Better Chance” (the ABC Program), Dr. Cooper attended the Andover High School in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating high school, Dr. Cooper attended Yale University, earning his Bachelors of Science in Biology. He then attended medical school at Duke University where he earned his Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. Cooper spent his residency at both the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. He also spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
In 1990, Dr. Cooper came to Baltimore and the Shock Trauma Center to complete his fellowship in Trauma/Critical Care. He then spent two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore before joining the faculty in 1993.
As Division Chief of Traumatology and Medical Director of Trauma Services at Prince George’s Hospital Center, Dr. Cooper was responsible for delivery of service at the second busiest trauma center in the State of Maryland which consisted of 9 General Trauma Surgeons and 20 sub-specialists. In 2012, Dr. Cooper was appointed as Sr. VP and CMO of Dimensions Healthcare System. In this role, he is responsible for the overall Medical Affairs at Prince George’s Hospital Center, Laurel Regional Hospital and Dimensions Surgery Center. As DIO he is responsible for oversight of the Graduate Medical Education and residency programs. As VPMA, he is a member of the leadership team of Prince George’s Hospital Center that governs the Medical Affairs of the institution.
Dr. Cooper’s research interests have focused on issues related to trauma attributable to violence, the mechanism of brain injury, and the diagnoses of blunt bowel injury. He is the member of many trauma, critical care, and surgical societies. He has authored many peer-reviewed publications on a variety of subjects, as well as book chapters.
In addition, Dr. Cooper is very involved in the Baltimore community, frequently giving talks throughout the area. He is also a member of the Board of Managers of the Druid Hill YMCA.
Dr. Cooper currently resides in Owings Mills, Maryland. In October 2002, he married Danielle Brown, a Baltimore native and they welcomed a daughter in 2005 and twin daughters in 2006.
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