Jeffrey Cooper, MD

Title(s)

Chief, Transplant Surgery; Transplant Surgeon; Director, General Surgery Residency Program; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Department + Services

Surgery, Transplant Surgery

Clinical Focus Areas

Liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation

Seeing Patients In

Boston, 617-636-5592

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Overview

Programs + Specialties	Transplant Surgery
Training + Education	Harvard Medical School; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Board Certifications	General Surgery
NPI #	1760417844
Gender	Male
Language(s)	German
Accepted Insurances	View Accepted Insurances at Tufts MC + Floating Hospital

Locations + Directions

Tufts Medical Center
South Building, 4th Floor
800 Washington St.
Box 40
Boston, MA 02111
Phone #: 617-636-5592
Fax #: 617-636-8228

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2020, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2018/2019, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2017, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2015, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2013, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2012, "Top Doctor," Boston Magazine
2012, "Top Doctor," U.S. News & World Report
Phi Beta Kappa
Rufus Choate Scholar

Publications + National Presentations

1. Cooper, J. Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Current Surgery. 2005; 62(3).

2. Cooper J, Chin T, Krieger R, Fernandez L, Foley D, Becker Y, Odorico J, Knechtle S, Kalayoglu M, Sollinger H, D’Alessandro A. Donation After Cardiac Death: The University of Wisconsin Experience With Renal Transplantation. Amer J Transplantation 2004; 4: 1490-4.

3. Hemming J, Angelis MA, Mithoefer A, Smith J, Cooper J, Pratt DS, Epstein MA, Rohrer RJ, Freeman, RB. Direct costs for one year of liver transplant care are not independently associated with pre-transplant MELD score. Amer J Transplantation. 2002; 2: S3 299.

4. Mithoefer A, Supran S, Rohrer RJ, Angelis MA, Cooper J, Pratt DS, Epstein MA, Bankoff M, Fitzmaurice SE, Bloom JS, Freeman RB. CT scan-measured liver volumes overestimate calculated standard liver volumes and actual operative liver volumes. Amer J Transplantation 2002; 2: S3 305

5. Mithoefer A, Supran S, Rohrer RJ, Angelis MA, Cooper J, Pratt DS, Epstein MA, Bankoff M, Fitzmaurice SE, Bloom JS, Freeman RB. Donor residual liver volume to body weight ratios do not correlate with donor complications after living live donation. Amer J Transplantation 2002; 2: S3 305

6. Dixon M, Kinzel J, Melanson M, Horth B, Palladino MB, Modak A, Cooper J, Angelis M, Rohrer R, Freeman RB, The Phenylalanine Breath Test (PBT) is a good measure of liver function after human liver surgery. Liver Transplantation 2003; 9: 6 C-28

7. Mithofer A, Supran S, FitzMaurice S, Bloom J, Pratt D, Epstein M, Angelis M, Cooper J, Rohrer R, Freeman RB Characteristics of patients dying on the waiting list have not changed in the MELD era. Liver Transplantation 2003; 9: 6 C-57

8. Kinzel J, Dixon M, Melanson A, Palladino M, Horth B, Modak A, Cooper J, Angelis M, Rohrer R, Freeman RB, The phenylalanine breath test (PBT) is a good measure of liver function after human liver surgery. ATJ 2003; 5: 3 246

9. Doherty E, Huang C, Supran S, Mason T, Angelis M, Cooper J, Rohrer R, Freeman, RB Donor recipient combine cytokine gene polymorphism analysis is associated with recipient infections after solid organ transplantation. ATJ 2003: 5: 3 426

10. Angelis,M., Cooper,J., Freeman,R. Impact of Donor Infections on Outcome of Orthotopic Liver Transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 9(5):451-462,2003.