MATTHEW M. COOPER, MD MBA FACS FCAMA
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Successfully built & led transformative Philosophy, Strategy, & Operational Change at the World’s #1 Wound Care Company
Collaborative leader who leads with integrity, communicates effectively with cross-functional teams, and navigates comfortably across all organizational levels.
Immediate conceptual grasp combined with deep technical and organizational experience in healthcare, aviation, business administration, research, and applied innovation. Bring to bear diverse expertise to achieve competitive advantage and mission success.
Unique combination of clinical and research skills, strategic, tactical, and end user insights. Focus on system evolution and the aviation-based creation of critical high-performance teams to achieve solutions.
Core Competencies
Resourceful, indefatigable, creative. Extensive and successful experience and expertise developing and leading healthy, talented cultures that achieve mission success and growth on a foundation of trust, shared beliefs, and critical team performance.
Expertise
Effective leadership
Attract, nurture, and develop talent
Elite team performance
Insightful analysis leading to defining strategy, tactics, and
enterprise evolution
Professional Experience
-Principal/Chief Executive Officer, Peak Cardiovascular: Strategic consultation based on insight, integrity, expertise
-Vice President Medical Affairs, Corporate Health, & Safety, 3M Health Care: Responsibilities including Design, Deployment, & Operationalization Occupational/Corporate Health; Organization, Infrastructure, Planning, & Enterprise Risk for Spin; Leadership in Medical Device Innovation and Commercialization, Evolution in Patient Safety
-Chief Medical Officer & Director Global Safety: Developed and led transformative philosophy, strategy, operational change, and evolution in patient safety at World’s #1 Wound Care & Leading Science Company – DARPA Research Grant, numerous peer and company recognitions. Leadership in strategy, process, Clinical Research, R&D, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, M&A & Technology Assessment.
-Chief Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Adult & Pediatric, & Transplant Programs: Led world-class performance and quality award winning programs additionally remarkable for growth and expansion of clinical offerings and innovation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery appointment
-Academic Faculty, Mentor, Consultant in Medical Device Innovation at several world class universities
-Led Original Bench & Clinical Research in immunology/Transplantation, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology; including Medical Staff Fellowship at NIH
-Senior Consultant in application of aviation based patient safety, communication, prospective system design, and critical team performance
-Laboratory, Technical, & Center Medical Director for multiple for-profit plasma donation centers
-Evidence-based and URAC certified peer & quality reviewer
Education
-Oklahoma State University, MBA
-Vascular Interventions Mini-Fellowship, University of Michigan
-Harvard- MIT Simulation Center: Comprehensive Simulation
-Alley-Sheridan Scholar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Health Policy
-The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St., London, UK: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
-Columbia University, New York: Chief Resident and Resident Thoracic Surgery
-University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics: Chief Resident and Resident General Surgery
-Medical Staff Fellow, Surgery Branch, NHLBI, NIH: Clinical Cardiac Surgery and Immunology/Transplantation Research
-New York University Medical Center: Resident in Surgery
-New York University School of Medicine, MD with Honors
-Franklin and Marshall College, BA Magna cum laude, Mathematics and Biology
Relevant Certificates
-Diplomat American Board of Thoracic Surgery
-Diplomat American Board of Surgery
-Vascular Interventions
-Comprehensive Medical Simulation
-Health Policy
-National Board of Medical Examiners
-State medical licenses: MN, VA, WI, SD, CT, CA, TX, IA, UT
-Agile Scrum Certified Product Owner & Scrum Master
-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
-Senior Aviation Medical Examiner & Consultant to Federal Air Surgeon
-Certified Flight Instructor
-SCUBA, Deep Air, & Technical Diving
Intellectual Property
(83073US002) Non-Adhesive Medical Attachment Articles
N075796; 84474US002 Fixation to Skin with Microneedles
Aviation Related
2023 Audie and Bernice Davis Award. Civil Aviation Medical Association
-Recognizes an outstanding Aviation Medical Examiner
Fellow, Aerospace Medical Association
Vice Chair, Aerospace Safety Committee
Vice Chair, ad hoc Safety Committee re Military Aviation Safety
Vice Chair, Science & Technology Committee
Aerospace Human Performance Committee
Aerospace Human Factors Association
Space Surgery Association
Fellow, Civil Aviation Medical Association
Space Committee
International Aerospace Neurology Consortium
Fellow Member, International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS)