We are a startup company with ambitions to demystify the analysis and interpretation of data from cardiopulmonary exercise testing thus empowering physicians, clinical researchers, sports scientists, trainers, testing laboratories and rehabilitation programs. We are a spin-off from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), advancing technologies, methods, and understandings developed by Professor Christopher B Cooper and his research laboratory.
Dr Christopher Cooper is now Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he served on the full-time faculty for 25 years and was director of the COPD clinical and research programs and director of the Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory which he founded.
Dr Cooper trained at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University of London, United Kingdom, obtaining his BSc in physiology in 1973 and graduating in medicine in 1976 (conferred as MB BS). He completed his postgraduate training in general internal medicine and specialist training in pulmonary and critical care medicine in the UK at St. Thomas' Hospital, London and the University of Sheffield. In 1991, he was awarded an MD (equivalent to PhD) by the University of London for his doctoral thesis on the topic of pulmonary rehabilitation. He spent twelve months from November 1987 in the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center as a Fulbright Scholar. He returned to join the faculty of UCLA School of Medicine in January 1990. He spent four months in 2008 as Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute in South Africa. In 2016, he retired from the full-time faculty at UCLA to become Professor Emeritus but has remained actively involved in research and teaching. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked part-time with GlaxoSmithKline Global Respiratory Franchise as a Global Medical Expert.
In 2009, Dr Cooper was the recipient of the prestigious Sherman M Mellinkoff Faculty Award for an outstanding UCLA physician who is dedicated to the art of medicine. This is the highest faculty distinction awarded by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Also in 2009 he received the Award for Excellence in Education for outstanding dedication, innovation, and sustained excellence in education. In 2020, he received the Edward A Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award to honor outstanding research, scholarly work, teaching, and service performed by an Emeritus Professor at UCLA since retirement. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1994, the American College of Sports Medicine in 1996 and the American College of Chest Physicians in 1997. He is a liveryman of The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. In 2011 he was elected a member of The Athenaeum in London. The membership of this club, which includes fifty-one Nobel laureates, is based on academic distinction.
Dr Cooper is an active member of the British Thoracic Society, American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society. He is also a certified Health and Fitness Director of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Dr Cooper’s clinical and research interests include medical education, clinical skills, exercise physiology and exercise testing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, asthma, pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen therapy. He has published over 240 peer reviewed original research articles, reviews and book chapters. He is author of a popular book entitled “Exercise testing and interpretation: A practical approach” first published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2001 and subsequently translated into three other languages.
