CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert F. Cooper Ph.D
Robert F. Cooper Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
EDUCATION: |
09/2005 - 05/2009 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI |
01/2010 - 01/2016 Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
10/2015 - 06/2019 Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2011 Travel Grant for Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, National Eye Institute |
2014 Research Assistant Honors, Marquette University |
2016 Young Investigator Award, Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
2010 - Present Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Member) |
2010 - 2012 Optical Society of America (Member) |
2011 - 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Member) |
2020 - Present Optical Society of America (Member) |
EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS: |
Journal Review |
2010 - Present Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences |
2012 - Present Biomedical Optics Express |
2013 - Present Translational Vision Science and Technology |
2018 Ophthalmology |
2019 - Present Optica |
Ad-Hoc Reviewer |
2020 Grant Review, Foundation Fighting Blindness |
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INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
Robert F. Cooper, Examining the health of individual photoreceptors in the living eye, International OSA Webinar "Functional Imaging: Eliciting, Measuring and Interpreting Intrinsic Signals in the Retina", Virtual, 12/12/2018 |
Cooper, Robert F., Examining the health of individual photoreceptors in the living eye, Rank Prize Funds Symposium on Adaptive Optics, 08/13/2019 |
National |
Robert F. Cooper, Noninvasive Assessment of Photoreceptor Structure Function in the Human Retina, National Institutes of Health, 2015 |
Robert F. Cooper, Deriving Metrics From AO Images of the Cone Mosaic: Beyond Counting Cones, PSI Workshop "AO Retinal Imaging - Roadmap to Clinical Translation, 2016 |
Regional |
Robert F. Cooper, Examining the health of the retina with adaptive optics: where have we been, and where are we going?, Medical College of Wisconsin, 03/03/2018 |
COMMITTEE SERVICE: |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
2019 - Present Member, Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Committee, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin |
MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
Graduate Students |
MPh Committees |
2019 - Present Heather Heitkotter, Medical College of Wisconsin |
PhD Students Advised |
2021 - Present Mina Gaffney, Medical College of Wisconsin |
EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
Graduate Students |
MS Committees |
2018 - 2019 Ashley Toll, Marquette University |
MS Students Advised |
2021 - Present Brea Brennan, Marquette University |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: |
Lead developer of “Mosaic Analytics” - Data analysis software for adaptive optics ophthalmoscope images, currently licensed by Translational Imaging Innovations, LLC. |
US Patent Application 16/389,942 for "Methods and Systems for Assessing Photoreceptor Function" |
