Meet the Team
Program Director
EMD&T Program Director
Dr. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, interim Executive Director of the UC Irvine Institute for Precision Health, Associate Director of the UC Irvine Institute of Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS, UC Irvine’s NIH Clinical Translational Science Award), and Clinical Informatics and Analytics Unit Director of the UC Irvine Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center. Dr. Cooper’s research seeks to understand the role of physical activity and exercise in growth and development in children and adolescents in health and disease. Ongoing research areas include: novel approaches to gas exchange signal transduction during exercise; genomic and epigenetic responses to exercise in circulating immune cells; rethinking protocols for exercise testing in children with a specific focus on children with sickle cell disease and children with cystic fibrosis, and the optimal use of school-based physical fitness testing to mitigate health care disparities.
Associate Director
EMD&T Program Associate Director
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Administrative Staff