Overview

An eminent academic surgeon in the area of surgical critical care, Dr. Craig Coopersmith is vice chair of research of the Emory Department of Surgery, program director of the department's Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, and director of the Emory Critical Care Center (he served as associate director of the ECCC from 2009-2018). The ECCC is a national leader in designing, testing, and implementing innovations in critical care.

Dr. Coopersmith has established himself as one of the top investigators of sepsis and shock in the country, and was a member of an international task force of experts that redefined the terms "sepsis" and "septic shock" in 2016. The resulting publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association was named one of the journal's Top Articles of the Decade. His current research activity includes an NIH T32 training grant and three NIH R01 grants, two of which are collaborative studies with Emory transplant immunologist Dr. Mandy Ford that are investigating aspects of the immunological host response in sepsis.

Dr. Coopersmith served as president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2015-2016 and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, which requires its members to have an outstanding record of scholarly achievement in biomedical research. In 2020 he was inducted as a Master of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), considered the highest designation one can have in critical care.

Academic Appointment

• Vice Chair of Research, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
• Professor of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research