Dr. Dan M. Cooper, Pediatric Pulmonology

Dan M. Cooper, M.D. is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology. He completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and Pediatric Residency at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. He went on to his postdoctoral Fellowship Training in Pediatric Pulmonology at Babies Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Cooper is a Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean for Clinical Translational Sciences at the UCI School of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and the Pediatric Exercise Research Center.

Dr. Cooper’s research is focused on how exercise and physical activity can be used to benefit children with chronic conditions like asthma, cystic fibrosis, obesity, heart disease, and metabolic syndromes like diabetes.