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Noted pediatric pulmonologist Dan M. Cooper, M.D., is acting chair of the University of California, Irvine, Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Cooper is the founder and director of the UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science, which was recently awarded a $20 million Clinical & Translational Science Award from the NIH. This prestigious award will support multidisciplinary research in a wide range of fields, including pediatrics, speeding the transformation of scientific discoveries into medical advances for patients.
Dr. Cooper is also founder and director of the UC Irvine Pediatric Exercise Research Center, which is studying how exercise may help prevent childhood asthma and obesity, and benefit children with chronic asthma, cystic fibrosis, heart disease and diabetes.
Board-certified in pediatric pulmonology, Dr. Cooper is a professor of pediatrics and bioengineering, and associate dean for clinical translational sciences at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. He also serves as a board member of the CHOC Children’s Pediatric Subspecialty Faculty.
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