This week’s “Cooper Connection” in the Courier-Post featured an article written by Rick Hong, MD, Head, Division of Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at Cooper

Melvin Sheppard has been saving pennies every year since he was seven years old. It wasn’t to buy himself a new bike or something else a typical boy his age would want.

On Saturday, October 15, 2011, an estimated 15,000 people from around the Delaware Valley took part in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk/Run Philly to raise public awareness and money for AIDS research

This week’s “Cooper Connection” in the Courier-Post featured an article written by Robert T. Brown, MD, Adolescent Medicine Specialist at Cooper, about the importance of getting your children and teenagers vaccinated for diseases that can potentially become very harmful and life threatening.

A recent multi-state outbreak of listeriosis — the rare, but potentially lethal infection caused by the bacteria listeria — has local doctors and caregivers on alert

Even before Cooper Medical School of Rowan University officially accepts its first student, it has received an $800,000 federal grant.

Due to improvements being made to the flooring in the Roberts Pavilion, pedestrian access to and from the parking garage to the hospital will be diverted through the Healing Garden to the old Dorrance entrance, where patients, visitors and employees will be able to access the Pavilion and Kelemen elevator corridors.

When Sandy Kowal, RN, School Nurse for Cherry Hill High School West, attended her first symposium for Cooper in Schools on childhood diabetes nearly three years ago, she immediately knew it was something that she wanted to get involved in long-term.

Cooper Cancer Institute’s (CCI) Sister Will You Help Me support group celebrated its tenth anniversary with a dinner dance at Lucien’s Manor, in Berlin, N.J., on September 16, 2011. More than 350 people attended the event to celebrate survivorship; remember those who have passed; and recognize the family, friends, and caregivers who have helped the women through their journey.

Sister Will You Help Me is a support group for women of color and faith, with chapters based in Camden and Willingboro. Read more.

Sonia O. Imaizumi, MD, Associate Director of Neonatal Services, Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed Medical Director of Care Coordination. Dr. Imaizumi previously had served as Interim Director of Care Coordination, and as a physician advisor for the Care Coordination Department.