Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS, FACEP

Dr. Cooper is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Research Director at the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Her research interests include research design/methodology and data presentation, social emergency medicine including social determinants of health, disparities, homelessness, violence, and health equity, conflicts of interest, overuse/overdiagnosis and underuse, gender issues in medicine, risk and shared decision making, as well as peer review research (methodology and reporting in the literature. She is a participating member in ACEP’s Social EM research subcommittee, and policy subcommittee, as well as SAEM’s Social Emergency Medicine and population health research subcommittee. She is also a member of the Lown Right Care Alliance EM council.

Research interests: research design/methodology and data presentation, social emergency medicine including social determinants of health, disparities, homelessness, violence, and health equity, conflicts of interest, overuse/overdiagnosis and underuse, gender issues in medicine, risk and shared decision making, as well as peer review research (methodology and reporting in the literature.