Barry Cooper, MD: a conversation with the editor
Barry Cooper, MD, and William C. Roberts, MD
Barry Cooper was born on January 22, 1945, in Louisville, Kentucky, and that is where he grew up. His parents had 4 sons, and Barry was the second. One of Barry's brothers also became a physician, and the other two brothers became lawyers. After graduating first in his high school class, Barry Cooper went to Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, made Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and graduated in 1967. He then entered The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, graduating in 1971. He interned and did his assistant residency in medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and after completion of those 2 years became a clinical associate in the endocrine section of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After completing that research, he was a fellow in the hematology division of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of Harvard Medical School from 1975 to 1977. He then joined the Harvard faculty, where he remained for 2 years before coming to Dallas, Texas, and Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in 1979.
Since 1981, he has been codirector of the hematology division of the Department of Internal Medicine at BUMC and also clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. During his period at NIH and the Brigham, Dr. Cooper proved himself to be a fine researcher and through the years has published 40 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. He and his lovely wife, Lynn, are the proud parents of 3 children, one of whom is a physician, another a lawyer, and the third still in college. Barry Cooper is also a great guy, and it was a pleasure having the opportunity to ask him so many questions about himself, his family, and his work.
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