Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH – Site investigator and co-founder, EMSHOCKNET
Ryan Arnold, MD – Site investigator
Cooper University Hospital is the core teaching hospital of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden and is the leading provider of comprehensive health services, medical education, and clinical research in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley. The hospital serves as southern New Jersey’s major tertiary care referral hospital for specialized services including (among others): critical care, trauma (Level I Southern New Jersey Regional Trauma Center), and cardiovascular disease (Cooper Heart Institute). Cooper is the critical care provider to the region’s most seriously ill and injured. Currently, 77% of all critical care inter-hospital transfers within Southern New Jersey come to Cooper.
The Emergency Department (ED) is a cornerstone of acute care and critical care services at Cooper. The mission of the Department of Emergency Medicine is excellence in: 1) emergency services, 2) medical education, and 3) clinical research. The ED cares for 48,000 patients every year and is the home for the emergency medicine residency program. Cooper emergency medicine residents are trained to provide cutting-edge therapies for critically ill patients, including those with septic shock and cardiac arrest. The Cooper ED has been recognized for excellence in transfer of critical care research innovations to the bedside.
Cooper offers fellowship programs in critical care medicine, pulmonary/critical care, and trauma/critical care. The multidisciplinary (medical, surgical, and cardiovascular surgery) critical care experience at Cooper exposes fellows to the full spectrum of critical illness and injury and prepares trainees to become leaders in their field. The critical care faculty at Cooper features some of the world’s leading academic intensivists, including three past presidents of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Cooper University Hospital has 62 adult critical care beds: a 24-bed Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit, a 12-bed Coronary Care Unit, a 10-bed Trauma Intensive Care Unit, a 4-bed Stroke Intensive Care Unit, and a 12-bed Intermediate Care Unit.
One unique feature of Cooper’s clinical research mission is a multidisciplinary shock research program, a collaboration of investigators from critical care medicine, emergency medicine, and cardiology that is focused on clinical research in circulatory shock. The shock research program is currently supported by research grants from the American Heart Association and the U.S. Shock Society. In addition, Graduate Medical Education (GME) at Cooper offers a fellowship in shock research that is based in the Department of Emergency Medicine. The program accepts one shock fellow per year.
Site contact information:
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden
Cooper University Hospital
One Cooper Plaza, D363
Camden, NJ 08103
Phone: 856-342-3342
Email: trzeciak-stephen@cooperhealth.edu