Dr. Craig Coopersmith Honored with 2024 Dean's Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award
APRIL 2024
Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, MCCM was presented the 2024 Dean's Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. This award is among the most prestigious and celebratory honors that the Emory University School of Medicine bestows on its faculty members. Dr. Coopersmith is the first member of the Department of Surgery to win the award since Dr. Larsen won it in 2009.
As part of the award ceremony, Dr. Coopersmith gave his honorary lecture on "Sepsis - The Continuum from Definition to Mechanistic Insights to Bedside Care to Implementation Science (and back again)."
Dr. Coopersmith has been the Director of the Emory Critical Care Center (ECCC) since 2018 and currently serves as professor of surgery in the Emory Department of Surgery, vice chair of research in the department, and program director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship. He has been working to improve sepsis care and outcomes for multiple decades and has had a huge impact with this work on all three missions - research, teaching and patient care.