Christopher B. Cooper, MD, FRCP, FACSM, FCCP

Christopher B. Cooper, MD, FRCP, FACSM, FCCP, is Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he is Medical Director of the UCLA COPD Program and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Program. He is also Medical Director of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory at UCLA Medical Center and Director of the UCLA Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory.

Dr. Cooper trained at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, University of London, England, obtaining his BSc in physiology in 1973 and graduating in medicine in 1976 (conferred as MB BS). He completed his postgraduate training in general internal medicine and specialist training in pulmonary and critical care medicine in England at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, and the University of Sheffield. In 1991, he was awarded an MD (equivalent to PhD) for his doctoral thesis on the topic of pulmonary rehabilitation.

Dr. Cooper spent twelve months from November 1987 in the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center as a Fulbright Scholar. He returned to join the faculty of UCLA School of Medicine in January 1990. He spent three months in 2008 as Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in South Africa.

Dr. Cooper was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1994, the American College of Sports Medicine in 1996, and the American College of Chest Physicians in 1997. He is also an active member of the British Thoracic Society, American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, and American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Dr. Cooper is a certified Health and Fitness Director of the American College of Sports Medicine, Associate Editor of the ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities, and former Associate Editor of the ACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal.

Dr. Cooper's clinical and research interests include exercise physiology and exercise testing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen therapy. He is author of a book entitled Exercise Testing and Interpretation: A Practical Approach first published by Cambridge University Press in 2001 and now translated into three languages.