Matthew M. Cooper, MD, FACS, AME, CFI has extensive experience and expertise in medicine and aviation which allow him a unique perspective to optimally overlap and fuse both disciplines. He has provided program implementation for many clients including The University of California—San Diego, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Memorial Healthcare System, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Vassar Brothers Medical Center, among others.

Dr. Cooper is a practicing 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 is often sought out for television and radio commentary about innovations and happenings in medicine. Dr. Cooper is an active Aviation Medical Examiner, an avid commercial pilot, flight instructor, and aerobatic and formation air show performer and has flown a variety of single and multi engine aircraft including a military jet trainer.
 

Dr. Cooper is a magna cum laude graduate of Franklin & Marshall College (Mathematics & Biology) and an honor graduate of New York University School of Medicine. 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 and Transplantation at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, UK. His research included pioneering methods of immunosuppression for primate cardiac xenograft transplantation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, spinal cord protection during thracoabdominal aortic surgery, and extravascular lung water. He also attended courses in Health Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in Comprehensive Medical Simulation, both at Harvard University. Dr. Cooper is currently Director of Cardiothoracic Surgical Services for a large healthcare system and is actively involved in CRM and simulation program implementation."
 

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