Today, Cooper University Health Care and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center signed a partnership agreement to create MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden. This new, integrated cancer center will be the first partnership for MD Anderson in the Northeast. MD Anderson is located in Houston, Texas, and is the No. 1 cancer center in the United States according to U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Hospitals” survey for the last 10 of 12 years.

Cooper University Health Care is proud to announce that Jeffrey C. Brenner, MD, Medical Director of the Urban Health Institute, has been named one of the 2013 MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his work in developing new healthcare delivery models to meet the medical and social service needs of Camden residents,” said John P. Sheridan, Jr., President and CEO of The Cooper Health System.

Cooper University Health Care is pleased to welcome Wendy A. Marano as Manager of Public Relations. She joins Cooper most recently from the Pennsylvania SPCA, a state-wide animal welfare and humane law enforcement agency headquartered in Philadelphia, where she was communications director overseeing media relations, crisis communications, event planning, publications and marketing activities.

Cooper University Health Care Director of the Urban Health Institute, Jeffrey Brenner, MD, was featured on NPR's Marketplace with Dan Goresteinin this week. The feature is the first in a series of stories that will be produced over the next year highlighting Cooper and the Camden Coalition’s engagement in transforming health care as part of the Accountable Care Act.

On July 20th, 2013, Anthony J. Mazzarelli, MD, Senior Vice President of Operations, Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director, Population Health Institute at Cooper University Hospital hosted a live broadcast on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT at Holy Family University.

Cooper University Health Care is revolutionizing the field of pediatric and adult psychiatry through a unique program that incorporates yoga and mindfulness interventions based on the traditions of ancient India. The Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program at Cooper is designed to reduce the effects of stress on the body and mind using meditation and focused breathing techniques.

Jeffrey Siegel, DPM, of the Cooper Bone and Joint Institute, Division of Podiatry, discusses his recent medical mission trip to Nicaragua with Dawn Stensland-Mente of the Dawn Show.

The Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper and The Cooper Foundation of Cooper University Health Care last night honored two esteemed South Jersey leaders in pediatric medicine and raised $140,000 to benefit children’s health care programs.

Cooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center have signed a letter of intent to form a partnership that will provide cancer patients in the region with access to the most advanced cancer treatments available.

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