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Zara Cooper, MD, MSc

Brigham And Women's Hospital

Brigham And Women's Hospital
Phone: (617) 525-7300

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Brigham And Women's Hospital
Phone: (617) 525-7300

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Zara Cooper, MD, MSc

Brigham And Women's Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Surgery, Harvard Medical School
  • Associate Surgeon, Surgery, Brigham And Women's Hospital
  • Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery, Brigham And Women's Hospital
  • Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham And Women's Hospital
  • Fellowship Education Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham And Women's Hospital

HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS, is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) where she serves as Kessler Director for the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH). Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, associate faculty at Ariadne Labs, and adjunct faculty at the Marcus Institute for Aging research, all in in Boston, MA. A graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Cooper completed her General Surgery Residency and Critical Care Fellowship at BWH; a Trauma Fellowship at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington in Seattle; and training in hospice and palliative medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and BWH.

Her research aims to improve palliative and geriatric care for older seriously ill surgical patients. A national leader in surgical palliative care and geriatric trauma, she has authored over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters, and abstracts and lectures nationally about surgical care in complex older patients. She has mentored over 25 trainees and junior faculty in health services research.

Dr. Cooper is currently funded through the National Institutes of Aging Paul B. Beeson Leadership in Aging Award, The American Federation for Aging Research, and the National Palliative Care Research Center, the Department of Defense and the Defense Health Agency. She serves on numerous editorial boards, and committees for professional societies, MassGeneralBrigham Healthcare System, and the Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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  • Liu JB, Moturu A, Temple LK, Cooper ZR, Hall BL, Ko CY, Pusic AL. Over One-Third of Surgical Patients Report Inadequate Shared Decision-Making: Opportunities for Improvement from the ACS NSQIP PROMs Project. Ann Surg 2025. PubMed
  • Farber ON, Reich AJ, Williams K, Cooper Z, Mack JW, Zhang GQ, Ramos T, Lilley EJ. "What's a Win": A Qualitative Study Exploring Surgeon Perspectives on Operative Intent in Non-curative Cancer Surgery. Ann Surg 2025. PubMed
  • Rubio-Chavez A, Chang DC, Kunitake H, Ricciardi R, Vranceanu AM, Cooper Z, Ritchie C, Cauley CE. Aging Disparities in Ostomy Surgery. J Surg Res 2025; 306:488-495. PubMed
  • Soelling SJ, Rubio-Chavez A, Ingram Z, Baird L, Brindle ME, Cooper Z, Vranceanu AM, Ritchie CS, Cauley C. Challenges Faced by Patients Undergoing Fecal Ostomy Surgery: A Qualitative Study of Colorectal Cancer Patient Perspectives. J Gastrointest Surg 2025. PubMed
  • Maiga AW, Ho V, Morris RS, Kodadek LM, Puzio TJ, Tominaga GT, Tabata-Kelly M, Cooper Z. Palliative care in acute care surgery: research challenges and opportunities. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2025; 10:e001615. PubMed
  • Min JWS, Wang Y, Bollens-Lund E, Reich AJ, Dhanani H, Ankuda CK, Lipsitz S, Gray TF, Kim DH, Ritchie CS, Kelley AS, Cooper Z. Long-term Changes in Pain, Depression, Function and Informal Caregiving after Major Elective Surgeries Among Seriously Ill Older Adults. Ann Surg 2024. PubMed
  • Min JWS, Low XC, Farber ON, Mack JW, Cooper Z, Lilley EJ. Definition of Palliative Surgery in Cancer Care: A Systematic Review. J Surg Oncol 2024. PubMed
  • Cauley CE, Samost-Williams A, Philpotts L, Brindle M, Cooper Z, Ritchie CS. Geriatric Assessment in Colorectal Surgery: A Systematic Review. J Surg Res 2024; 296:720-734. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Farber ON, Cooper Z. Palliative surgery: state of the science and future directions. Br J Surg 2024. PubMed
  • Allen MB, Reich A, Collins P, Chahal K, Moustaqim-Barrette M, Bernacki RE, Cooper Z, Bader AM. Provider Perceptions Regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Surgical Patients with Frailty. Ann Surg 2024. PubMed
  • Agaronnik ND, Streid JL, Kwok A, Schoenfeld AJ, Cooper Z, Lindvall C. Assessing performance of Geriatric Surgery Verification Program preoperative communication standards in spine surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc 2024. PubMed
  • Mossanen M, Smith AB, Onochie N, Matulewicz R, Bjurlin MA, Kibel AS, Abbas M, Shore N, Chisolm S, Bangs R, Cooper Z, Gore JL. Bladder cancer patient and provider perspectives on smoking cessation. Urol Oncol 2023. PubMed
  • Streid JL, Lee KC, Bader AM, Jarman MP, Rosenthal RA, Cooper Z, Lindvall C. Shared Decision Making in the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program: Assessing Baseline Performance. J Pain Symptom Manage 2023. PubMed
  • Hu FY, Rowe KA, O'Mara LM, Bulger A, Bleday R, Groff MW, Cooper Z, Bernacki RE. Evaluation of interdisciplinary care pathway implementation in older elective surgery patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 2023. PubMed
  • Chen VW, Portuondo JI, Cooper Z, Massarweh NN. Variation in hospital utilization of palliative interventions for patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer near end of life. J Surg Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Dey T, Lipsitz SR, Cooper Z, Trinh QD, Krzywinski M, Altman N. Regression modeling of time-to-event data with censoring. Nat Methods 2022. PubMed
  • Chen VW, Portuondo JI, Cooper Z, Massarweh NN. Use of Palliative Interventions at End of Life for Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Hu FY, Tabata-Kelly M, Johnston FM, Walling AM, Lindvall C, Bernacki RE, Pusic AL, Cooper Z. Surgeon-reported Factors Influencing Adoption of Quality Standards for Goal-concordant Care in Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Qualitative Study. Ann Surg 2022. PubMed
  • Haeuser L, Marchese M, Noldus J, Kibel AS, Carvalho F, Preston MA, Cooper Z, Trinh QD, Mossanen M. Association between Operative Time and Short-Term Radical Cystectomy Complications. Urol. Int. 2022. PubMed
  • Dey T, Lipsitz SR, Cooper Z, Trinh QD, Krzywinski M, Altman N. Survival analysis-time-to-event data and censoring. Nat Methods 2022; 19:906-908. PubMed
  • Madenci AL, Wanis KN, Cooper Z, Subramanian SV, Haneuse S, Hofman A, Hernán M. Comparison of Mortality Risk With Different Surgeon and Hospital Operative Volumes Among Individuals Undergoing Pancreatectomy by Emulating Target Trials in US Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e221766. PubMed
  • Sokas C, Hu F, Edelen M, Sisodia R, Pusic A, Cooper Z. A Review of PROM Implementation in Surgical Practice. Ann Surg 2021. PubMed
  • Cole AP, Lipsitz SR, Kibel AS, Mahal BA, Melnitchouk N, Cooper Z, Trinh QD. Is Medicaid expansion associated with increases in palliative treatments for metastatic cancer? J Comp Eff Res 2021; 10:733-741. PubMed
  • Kalbfell E, Kata A, Buffington AS, Marka N, Brasel KJ, Mosenthal AC, Cooper Z, Finlayson E, Schwarze ML. Frequency of Preoperative Advance Care Planning for Older Adults Undergoing High-risk Surgery: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg 2021. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Sokas CM, Streid J, Senglaub SS, Coogan K, Walling AM, Cooper Z. Quality indicators in surgical palliative care: a systematic review. J Pain Symptom Manage 2021. PubMed
  • Cooper Z, Cauley C. Which Priorities Should Guide Palliative Surgical Research? AMA J Ethics 2021; 23:E806-810. PubMed
  • Minami CA, Cooper Z. The Frailty Syndrome: A Critical Issue in Geriatric Oncology. Crit Care Clin 2021; 37:151-174. PubMed
  • Tang VL, Cenzer I, McCulloch CE, Finlayson E, Cooper Z, Silvestrini M, Ngo S, Schmitt EM, Inouye SK. Preoperative Depressive Symptoms Associated with Poor Functional Recovery after Surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020. PubMed
  • Gupta A, Jin G, Reich A, Prigerson HG, Ladin K, Kim D, Ashana DC, Cooper Z, Halpern SD, Weissman JS. Association of Billed Advance Care Planning with End-of-Life Care Intensity for 2017 Medicare Decedents. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020. PubMed
  • Cooper L, Abbett SK, Feng A, Bernacki RE, Cooper Z, Urman RD, Frain LN, Edwards AF, Blitz JD, Javedan H, Bader AM. Launching a Geriatric Surgery Center: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020. PubMed
  • Jarman MP, Bergmark RW, Chhabra K, Scott JW, Shrime M, Cooper Z, Tsai T. The Surgical Health Services Research Agenda for the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ann Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Walling AM, Senglaub SS, Bernacki R, Fleisher LA, Russell MM, Wenger NS, Cooper Z. Improving Serious Illness Care for Surgical Patients: Quality Indicators for Surgical Palliative Care. Ann Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Havens JM, Castillo-Angeles M, Jarman MP, Sturgeon D, Salim A, Cooper Z. Care Discontinuity in Emergency General Surgery: Does Hospital Quality Matter? J Am Coll Surg 2020; 230:863-871. PubMed
  • Cooper Z, Bernacki RE. To Face Coronavirus Disease 2019, Surgeons Must Embrace Palliative Care. JAMA Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Kelly MT, Sturgeon D, Harlow AF, Jarman M, Weissman JS, Cooper Z. Using Medicare Data to Identify Serious Illness in Older Surgical Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage 2020. PubMed
  • Mittel A, Kim DH, Cooper Z, Argenziano M, Hua M. Use of 90-day mortality does not change assessment of hospital quality after coronary artery bypass grafting in New York State. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Streid J, Sturgeon D, Lipsitz S, Weissman JS, Rosenthal RA, Kim DH, Mitchell SL, Cooper Z. The Impact of Frailty on Long-Term Patient-Oriented Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 2020. PubMed
  • Udelsman BV, Govea N, Cooper Z, Chang DC, Bader A, Meyer MJ. Variation in Patient-Reported Advance Care Preferences in the Preoperative Setting. Anesth Analg 2020. PubMed
  • Reich AJ, Jin G, Gupta A, Kim D, Lipstiz S, Prigerson HG, Tjia J, Ladin K, Halpern SD, Cooper Z, Weissman JS. Utilization of ACP CPT codes among high-need Medicare beneficiaries in 2017: A brief report. PLoS ONE 2020; 15:e0228553. PubMed
  • Uribe-Leitz T, Jarman MP, Sturgeon DJ, Harlow AF, Lipsitz SR, Cooper Z, Salim A, Newgard CD, Haider AH. National Study of Triage and Access to Trauma Centers for Older Adults. Ann Emerg Med 2020; 75:125-135. PubMed
  • Kuhls DA, Falcone RA, Bonne S, Bulger EM, Campbell BT, Cooper Z, Dicker RA, Duncan TK, Kuncir EJ, Lamis DA, Letton RW, Masiakos PT, Stewart RM, Knudson MM. Prevention of firearm injuries: It all begins with a conversation. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2020; 88:e77-e81. PubMed
  • Ouyang DJ, Lief L, Russell D, Xu J, Berlin DA, Gentzler E, Su A, Cooper ZR, Senglaub SS, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG. Timing is everything: Early do-not-resuscitate orders in the intensive care unit and patient outcomes. PLoS ONE 2020; 15:e0227971. PubMed
  • Udelsman BV, Govea N, Cooper Z, Chang DC, Bader A, Meyer MJ. Concordance in advance care preferences among high-risk surgical patients and surrogate health care decision makers in the perioperative setting. Surgery 2020; 167:396-403. PubMed
  • Schwarze ML, Buffington A, Tucholka JL, Hanlon B, Rathouz PJ, Marka N, Taylor LJ, Zimmermann CJ, Kata A, Baggett ND, Fox DA, Schmick AE, Berlin A, Glass NE, Mosenthal AC, Finlayson E, Cooper Z, Brasel KJ. Effectiveness of a Question Prompt List Intervention for Older Patients Considering Major Surgery: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg 2019. PubMed
  • Udelsman BV, Lee KC, Lilley EJ, Chang DC, Lindvall C, Cooper Z. Variation in Serious Illness Communication among Surgical Patients Receiving Palliative Care. J Palliat Med 2019. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Udelsman BV, Streid J, Chang DC, Salim A, Livingston DH, Lindvall C, Cooper Z. Natural Language Processing Accurately Measures Adherence to Best Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care in Trauma. J Pain Symptom Manage 2019. PubMed
  • Udelsman BV, Lilley EJ, Qadan M, Chang DC, Lillemoe KD, Lindvall C, Cooper Z. Deficits in the Palliative Care Process Measures in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Undergoing Operative and Invasive Nonoperative Palliative Procedures. Ann Surg Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Rosenblatt MS, Joseph KT, Dechert T, Duncan TK, Joseph DK, Stewart RM, Cooper ZR. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Prevention Committee topical update: Impact of community violence exposure, intimate partner violence, hospital-based violence intervention, building community coalitions and injury prevention program evaluat J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2019; 87:456-462. PubMed
  • Udelsman B, Lee K, Qadan M, Lillemoe KD, Chang D, Lindvall C, Cooper Z. Management of Pneumoperitoneum: Role and Limits of Nonoperative Treatment. Ann Surg 2019. PubMed
  • Udelsman BV, Lee KC, Traeger LN, Lillemoe KD, Chang DC, Cooper Z. Clinician-to-Clinician Communication of Patient Goals of Care Within a Surgical Intensive Care Unit. J Surg Res 2019; 240:80-88. PubMed
  • Taghavi S, Castillo-Angeles M, Uribe-Leitz T, Hirji S, Armand P, Nehra D, Cooper Z, Kelly E, Havens J, Haider A, Salim A, Askari R. Emergency general surgery procedures in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Am J Surg 2019. PubMed
  • Sherman JB, Chatterjee A, Urman RD, Culley DJ, Crosby GJ, Cooper Z, Javedan H, Hepner DL, Bader AM. Implementation of Routine Cognitive Screening in the Preoperative Assessment Clinic. A A Pract 2019; 12:125-127. PubMed
  • Cole AP, Nguyen DD, Meirkhanov A, Golshan M, Melnitchouk N, Lipsitz SR, Kilbridge KL, Kibel AS, Cooper Z, Weissman J, Trinh QD. Association of Care at Minority-Serving vs Non-Minority-Serving Hospitals With Use of Palliative Care Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities With Metastatic Cancer in the United States. JAMA Netw Open 2019; 2:e187633. PubMed
  • Chaudhary MA, Schoenfeld AJ, Koehlmoos TP, Cooper Z, Haider AH. Prolonged ICU stay and its association with 1-year trauma mortality: An analysis of 19,000 American patients. Am J Surg 2019; 218:21-26. PubMed
  • Rangel EL, Rios-Diaz AJ, Uyeda JW, Castillo-Angeles M, Cooper Z, Olufajo OA, Salim A, Sodickson AD. Sarcopenia as a tool for preoperative decision-making. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2019; 86:377-379. PubMed
  • Mehta A, Varma S, Efron DT, Joseph BA, Lunardi N, Haut ER, Cooper Z, Sakran JV. Emergency general surgery in geriatric patients: How should we evaluate hospital experience? J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2019; 86:189-195. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Walling AM, Senglaub SS, Kelley AS, Cooper Z. Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage 2019; 58:844-850.e2. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Senglaub SS, Walling AM, Mosenthal AC, Cooper Z. Quality Measures in Surgical Palliative Care: Adapting Existing Palliative Care Measures to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients. Ann Surg 2019; 269:607-609. PubMed
  • Aziz HA, Lunde J, Barraco R, Como JJ, Cooper Z, Hayward T, Hwang F, Lottenberg L, Mentzer C, Mosenthal A, Mukherjee K, Nash J, Robinson B, Staudenmayer K, Wright R, Yon J, Crandall M. Evidence-based review of trauma center care and routine palliative care processes for geriatric trauma patients; A collaboration from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee, the American Association for the Surgery J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2019; 86:737-743. PubMed
  • Lyu HG, Castillo-Angeles M, Bruno M, Cooper Z, Nehra D, Nitzschke SL, Askari R, Kelly E, Shimizu N, Riviello R, Salim A, Havens JM. Outcomes of a low-osmolar water-soluble contrast pathway in small bowel obstruction. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2019; 87:630-635. PubMed
  • Daiello LA, Racine AM, Yun Gou R, Marcantonio ER, Xie Z, Kunze LJ, Vlassakov KV, Inouye SK, Jones RN, Alsop D, Travison T, Arnold S, Cooper Z, Dickerson B, Fong T, Metzger E, Pascual-Leone A, Schmitt EM, Shafi M, Cavallari M, Dai W, Dillon ST, McElhaney J, Guttmann C, Hshieh T, Kuchel G, Libermann T, Ngo L, Press D, Saczynski J, Vasunilashorn S, O'Connor M, Kimchi E, Strauss J, Wong B, Belkin M, Ayres D, Callery M, Pomposelli F, Wright J, Schermerhorn M, Abrantes T, Albuquerque A, Bertrand S, Brown A, Callahan A, D'Aquila M, Dowal S, Fox M, Gallagher J, Anna Gersten R, Hodara A, Helfand B, Inloes J, Kettell J, Kuczmarska A, Nee J, Nemeth E, Ochsner L, Palihnich K, Parisi K, Puelle M, Rastegar S, Vella M, Xu G, Bryan M, Guess J, Enghorn D, Gross A, Gou Y, Habtemariam D, Isaza I, Kosar C, Rockett C, Tommet D, Gruen T, Ross M, Tasker K, Gee J, Kolanowski A, Pisani M, de Rooij S, Rogers S, Studenski S, Stern Y, Whittemore A, Gottlieb G, Orav J, Sperling R, . Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Overlap and Divergence. Anesthesiology 2019; 131:477-491. PubMed
  • Bryant EA, Tulebaev S, Castillo-Angeles M, Moberg E, Senglaub SS, O'Mara L, McDonald M, Salim A, Cooper Z. Frailty Identification and Care Pathway: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for Older Trauma Patients. J Am Coll Surg 2019; 228:852-859.e1. PubMed
  • Udyavar NR, Salim A, Cornwell EE, Cooper Z, Haider AH. Do outcomes in emergency general surgery vary for minority patients based on surgeons' racial/ethnic case mix? Am J Surg 2019; 218:42-46. PubMed
  • Lindvall C, Lilley EJ, Zupanc SN, Chien I, Udelsman BV, Walling A, Cooper Z, Tulsky JA. Natural Language Processing to Assess End-of-Life Quality Indicators in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Surgery. J Palliat Med 2018. PubMed
  • Stein DM, Kozar RA, Livingston DH, Luchette F, Adams SD, Agrawal V, Arbabi S, Ballou J, Barraco RD, Bernard AC, Biffl WL, Bosarge PL, Brasel KJ, Cooper Z, Efron PA, Fakhry SM, Hartline CA, Hwang F, Joseph BA, Kurek SJ, Moore FA, Mosenthal AC, Pathak AS, Truitt MS, Yelon JA, . Geriatric traumatic brain injury-What we know and what we don't. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2018; 85:788-798. PubMed
  • Herrera-Escobar JP, Rios-Diaz AJ, Zogg CK, Wolf LL, Harlow A, Schneider EB, Cooper Z, Ordonez CA, Salim A, Haider AH. The "mortality ascent": Hourly risk of death for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients at Level II versus Level I trauma centers. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2018; 84:139-145. PubMed
  • Lee KC, Cooper Z. Ethical considerations about emergent surgical hospitalizations in patients with advanced cancer. Cancer 2018; 124:4432-4434. PubMed
  • Cooper Z, Lilley EJ, Bollens-Lund E, Mitchell SL, Ritchie CS, Lipstiz SR, Kelley AS. High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc 2018; 66:2072-2078. PubMed
  • Lief L, Berlin DA, Maciejewski RC, Westman L, Su A, Cooper ZR, Ouyang DJ, Epping G, Derry H, Russell D, Gentzler E, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG. Dying Patient and Family Contributions to Nurse Distress in the ICU. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2018; 15:1459-1464. PubMed
  • Udyavar NR, Salim A, Havens JM, Cooper Z, Cornwell EE, Lipsitz SR, Scott JW, Haider AH. The impact of individual physicians on outcomes after trauma: is it the system or the surgeon? J Surg Res 2018; 229:51-57. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Lee KC, Scott JW, Krumrei NJ, Haider AH, Salim A, Gupta R, Cooper Z. The impact of inpatient palliative care on end-of-life care among older trauma patients who die after hospital discharge. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2018; 85:992-998. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Scott JW, Weissman JS, Krasnova A, Salim A, Haider AH, Cooper Z. End-of-Life Care in Older Patients After Serious or Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Low-Mortality Hospitals Compared With All Other Hospitals. JAMA Surg 2018; 153:44-50. PubMed
  • Freitas G, Olufajo OA, Hammouda K, Lin E, Cooper Z, Havens JM, Askari R, Salim A. Erratum to "Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury" [Am J Surg 211 (4) (2016) 744-749]. Am J Surg 2018; 216:186-187. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Cooper Z, Schwarze ML, Mosenthal AC. Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities. Ann Surg 2018; 267:66-72. PubMed
  • Cooper Z. Indicated But Not Always Appropriate: Surgery in Terminally Ill Patients With Abdominal Catastrophe. Ann Surg 2018; 268:e4. PubMed
  • Enumah S, Lilley EJ, Nitzschke S, Haider AH, Salim A, Cooper Z. Increased hospice enrollment and decreased neurosurgical interventions without changes in mortality for older Medicare patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Am J Surg 2018; 215:1016-1019. PubMed
  • Su A, Lief L, Berlin D, Cooper Z, Ouyang D, Holmes J, Maciejewski R, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG. Beyond Pain: Nurses' Assessment of Patient Suffering, Dignity, and Dying in the Intensive Care Unit. J Pain Symptom Manage 2018; 55:1591-1598.e1. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Lindvall C, Lillemoe KD, Tulsky JA, Wiener DC, Cooper Z. Measuring Processes of Care in Palliative Surgery: A Novel Approach Using Natural Language Processing. Ann Surg 2017. PubMed
  • Yorkgitis BK, Olufajo OA, Metcalfe D, Reznor G, Havens JM, Cooper Z, Salim A. Do Transferred Patients Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Centers? Am Surg 2017; 83:1241-1245. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Scott JW, Jiang W, Krasnova A, Raol N, Changoor N, Salim A, Haider AH, Weissman JS, Schneider EB, Cooper Z. Intraoperative cholangiography during cholecystectomy among hospitalized medicare beneficiaries with non-neoplastic biliary disease. Am J Surg 2017; 214:682-686. PubMed
  • Rios-Diaz AJ, Lin E, Williams K, Jiang W, Patel V, Shimizu N, Metcalfe D, Olufajo OA, Cooper Z, Havens J, Salim A, Askari R. The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections. Am J Surg 2017; 214:385-389. PubMed
  • Carpenter CR, Arendts G, Hullick C, Nagaraj G, Cooper Z, Burkett E. Major trauma in the older patient: Evolving trauma care beyond management of bumps and bruises. Emerg Med Australas 2017; 29:450-455. PubMed
  • Olufajo OA, Reznor G, Lipsitz SR, Cooper ZR, Haider AH, Salim A, Rangel EL. Preoperative assessment of surgical risk: creation of a scoring tool to estimate 1-year mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly patient. Am J Surg 2017; 213:771-777.e1. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Scott JW, Goldberg JE, Cauley CE, Temel JS, Epstein AS, Lipsitz SR, Smalls BL, Haider AH, Bader AM, Weissman JS, Cooper Z. Survival, Healthcare Utilization, and End-of-life Care Among Older Adults With Malignancy-associated Bowel Obstruction: Comparative Study of Surgery, Venting Gastrostomy, or Medical Management. Ann Surg 2017. PubMed
  • Nabozny MJ, Kruser JM, Steffens NM, Pecanac KE, Brasel KJ, Chittenden EH, Cooper Z, McKneally MF, Schwarze ML. Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery. Ann Surg 2017; 265:97-102. PubMed
  • Rangel EL, Rios-Diaz AJ, Uyeda JW, Castillo-Angeles M, Cooper Z, Olufajo OA, Salim A, Sodickson AD. Sarcopenia increases risk of long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017; 83:1179-1186. PubMed
  • Hua M, Scales DC, Cooper Z, Pinto R, Moitra V, Wunsch H. Impact of Public Reporting of 30-day Mortality on Timing of Death after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Anesthesiology 2017; 127:953-960. PubMed
  • Raol N, Lilley E, Cooper Z, Dowdall J, Morris MA. Preoperative Counseling in Salvage Total Laryngectomy: Content Analysis of Electronic Medical Records. 2017; 157:641-647. PubMed
  • Cooper Z, Maxwell CA, Fakhry SM, Joseph B, Lundebjberg N, Burke P, Baracco R. A position paper: The convergence of aging and injury and the need for a Geriatric Trauma Coalition (GeriTraC). J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017; 82:419-422. PubMed
  • Hyder JA, Haring RS, Sturgeon D, Gazarian PK, Jiang W, Cooper Z, Lipsitz SR, Prigerson HG, Weissman JS. Occupational Variation in End-of-Life Care Intensity. Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2017. PubMed
  • Taylor LJ, Rathouz PJ, Berlin A, Brasel KJ, Mosenthal AC, Finlayson E, Cooper Z, Steffens NM, Jacobson N, Buffington A, Tucholka JL, Zhao Q, Schwarze ML. Navigating high-risk surgery: protocol for a multisite, stepped wedge, cluster-randomised trial of a question prompt list intervention to empower older adults to ask questions that inform treatment decisions. BMJ Open 2017; 7:e014002. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Morris MA, Sadovnikoff N, Luxford JM, Changoor NR, Bystricky A, Bader AM, Cooper Z. "Taking over somebody's life": Experiences of surrogate decision-makers in the surgical intensive care unit. Surgery 2017; 162:453-460. PubMed
  • Cruz-Oliver DM, Bernacki R, Cooper Z, Grudzen C, Izumi S, Lafond D, Lam D, LeBlanc TW, Tjia J, Walter J. The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care. J Palliat Med 2017; 20:804-812. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Columbus AB, Cooper Z. Inferring Palliative Intent From Administrative Data: Validation of a Claims-Based Case Definition for Venting Gastrostomy Tube. J Pain Symptom Manage 2017; 53:e3-e5. PubMed
  • Schoenfeld AJ, Jiang W, Harris MB, Cooper Z, Koehlmoos T, Learn PA, Weissman JS, Haider AH. Association Between Race and Postoperative Outcomes in a Universally Insured Population Versus Patients in the State of California. Ann Surg 2017; 266:267-273. PubMed
  • Hshieh TT, Saczynski J, Gou RY, Marcantonio E, Jones RN, Schmitt E, Cooper Z, Ayres D, Wright J, Travison TG, Inouye SK, . Trajectory of Functional Recovery After Postoperative Delirium in Elective Surgery. Ann Surg 2017; 265:647-653. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Gemunden SA, Kristo G, Changoor N, Scott JW, Rickerson E, Shimizu N, Salim A, Cooper Z. Utility of the "Surprise" Question in Predicting Survival among Older Patients with Acute Surgical Conditions. J Palliat Med 2017; 20:420-423. PubMed
  • Havens JM, Olufajo OA, Tsai TC, Jiang W, Columbus AB, Nitzschke SL, Cooper Z, Salim A. Hospital Factors Associated With Care Discontinuity Following Emergency General Surgery. JAMA Surg 2017; 152:242-249. PubMed
  • Lilley EJ, Cooper Z, Schwarze ML, Mosenthal AC. Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities. J Palliat Med 2017; 20:702-709. PubMed
  • Bakke KE, Miranda SP, Castillo-Angeles M, Cauley CE, Lilley EJ, Bernacki R, Bader AM, Urman RD, Cooper Z. Training Surgeons and Anesthesiologists to Facilitate End-of-Life Conversations With Patients and Families: A Systematic Review of Existing Educational Models. J Surg Educ ; 75:702-721. PubMed
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