Matthew Cooper, MD MBA FACS

Matthew M. Cooper, MD MBA FACS is the Medical Information Director for 3M Health Information Systems (HIS). He is responsible for optimizing clinical and technological integration, application, product development, and consulting based on his deep technical and organizational experience in healthcare, aviation, research, and end-user insights. Matt is a board certified Cardiovascular & Thoracic surgeon and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He has served as Departmental Chair of Surgery and Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery at various hospitals, is a reviewer for multiple peer reviewed professional journals, and belongs to many professional societies. He has published and presented extensively and has been sought out for television and radio commentary about innovations and happenings in medicine.            

In addition to post graduate education in Health policy and Medical Simulation, Matt is a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner, Certified Flight Instructor, and Consultant to the Federal Air Surgeon. He is particularly focused on system evolution and the aviation-based creation of high reliability systems and critical high performance teams.

Matt is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College (BA, Mathematics & Biology), New York University School of Medicine (MD), and the Watson Graduate School of Management, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University (MBA).  In addition to completing Residencies and Chief Residencies in General Surgery (New York University Medical Center, The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) and Thoracic Surgery (Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center), he also completed a Medical Staff Fellowship in the Surgery Branch of the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, UK.  His research interests have included pioneering methods of immunosuppression for primate cardiac xenograft transplantation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, spinal cord protection during thoracoabdominal aortic surgery, and extravascular lung water.