Biographies
Jason Cooper
- Technology Advisory Board
He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from West Virginia University in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Cooper was first introduced to health care informatics during his undergraduate research which modeled human lung volume patterns for potential black lung (or other respiratory disorder) detection at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Following his first industry experience - as a software engineer developing client-server, database, and user interface applications - he was introduced to the NASA software development community. For over eight years, Cooper performed full lifecycle verification and validation activities on both manned and unmanned NASA spaceflight software for Titan Systems Corporation (now, L3-Titan). Following that experience, he led the health and life sciences research and development efforts for a non-profit organization - the Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research, and Innovation Center (MATRIC), then went on to lead Health Care Analytics as a director for CVS Caremark.
Mr. Cooper earned his second M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with specialization in health care informatics, from Duke University in 2006. His research there focused on data mining for complex correlations in those diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Cooper is currently employed as Vice President – Clinical Analytics for CIGNA HealthCare (part of CIGNA Corporation - a leading global health services organization).
Mr. Cooper is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). In addition, he is a member of the Life Sciences Information Technology (LSIT) Global Institute's Technology Advisory Board (TAB).
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