The International Aortic Summit, co-founded by Joseph V. Lombardi MD, will hold its second annual meeting in Venice from June 21st - 23rd, 2012. The world leaders in aortic surgery will give presentations on their research and new technology applications to aortic disease.

Cooper Vascular Surgeons discuss the benefits of a thriving Vascular Surgery program to a health system in this article in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

The Cooper Health System has appointed Jayashree Raman as Vice President and Chief Information Officer.

On Tuesday, March 20th, nearly 100 school nurses, coaches and athletic trainers from across the Delaware Valley joined Cooper in Schools at The Westin in Mount Laurel for their third annual Continuing Education Symposium “Stronger Children, Stronger Communities.”

Attached are two photos from last evening’s for the Ronald McDonald House Charities Third Annual “Change the Luck of a Child” Phone Bank which aired on CBS 3. Cooper was a sponsor of the event. Cooper employees staffed phones from 7-8pm.

The gift to the Rowan University Foundation from Lawrence J. Salva and his wife, Rita, will fund scholarships for students at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). Their pledge is the largest one-time gift to Rowan ever from an alumnus and the largest gift to date for CMSRU.

Join Cooper surgeons Monday, March 12 as they offer a hands-on demonstration of the new da Vinci Surgical Robot. Visitors are invited to operate the robot first-hand.

Cooper Cancer Institute was recently named a “Center of Excellence” in accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) for its use of the SAVI® applicator, an advanced therapy for breast cancer as part of breast conservation therapy.

Dr. Richard Selznick, Director of the Cooper Learning Center at Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper, will lead an all-day workshop presented at Rowan University by its College of Graduate and Continuing Education entitled “The Shut-Down Learner” on Tuesday, February 7.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accepted the recommendation by the UMDNJ Task Force Committee to overhaul the state's university system, including merging Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden campus into one single university with research university designation.