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Matthew M. Cooper, MD MBA FACS
Accomplishments & Projects 2014-
1. Completed Six Sigma Green Belt & Advanced Green Belt
2. Completed Lean Training
3. Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner (Agile)
4. Extensive Direction of Natural Language Processing (NLP,
artificial intelligence) development applied to:
a. Ambulatory Specialty Build Out
b. I-9 to I-10 Transition
c. Accelerated NLP engine performance strategy and client
development
d. I-10 Confidence Assessment Modeling
e. Internal & External Socialization
5. Project Management Training
6. Ongoing 3M & Linked-In Blogs
7. Ongoing Product Development & Optimization; Process
Innovation; Clinical, Quality, & Technological Consulting;
Strategic Planning
8. Welch Way: Managing Change & Creating a Winning Strategy
Tutorials. (Jack Welch). Skillsoft.
9. COLA Laboratory Director Certification
Accomplishments & Projects 2011-2013
1. 2013 Truven Health Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters)
Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals (St. Joseph’s Hospital)
St. Paul, Minnesota.
2. Increased revenue as cases no longer left for other facilities (e.g.,

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complex mitral valve repairs and aortic pathology).
3. Educational teaching opportunities provided for nursing and other
staff including scenario design and strategy/philosophy of care
(e.g., ICU training curriculum developed to achieve more uniform
knowledge base).
4. Implemented Phase of Care Mortality Analysis (POCMA).
5. Implemented Checklist, Pre procedure Brief and Debrief Process
including SBAR format for standardized handoffs and
communication and patient ICU receipt checklist.
6. Standardized process and preop/postop order sets.
7. Clinical development:
- High rate bilateral IMA use
- Preoperative patient optimization as it impacts postop resp
failure, length of stay, etc.
- Early extubation strategies and protocol beginning with
operative considerations
- Preoperative carotid duplex screening
- Intraoperative ultrasound vein mapping
- Low dose heparinization during vein harvest
- Epi aortic ultrasound
- Sanguinous cardioplegia
- Routine retrograde cardioplegia
- Three stage venous cannulation
- Retrograde autologous prime/Mini perfusion circuit
- Standardized assessment of coagulation abnormalities pre,
intra, and postop with reduction in use of blood and
blood products including Thromboelastometry (Rotem) and
HepCon point of care testing in OR
- Point of care testing in ICU for critical labs (i-STAT)
- Complex Mitral valve repair
- Atrial fib ablation (Maze procedures)
- Bridge and PCI mechanical circulatory assist program
- Open aortic arch repair and aortic root replacement (including
valve sparing)
- Endovascular abdominal and thoracic aortic repair

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- Limb salvage revascularization
- Collaborative laser lead removal
- Selective off pump coronary artery bypass
- Nitric oxide use in OR and ICU
- Fostered development of anesthesia TEE competence
- Selective use of Embolex arterial cannulae and screen
- Use of heart net to minimize required staff and avoid
epicardial injuries
- Thoracic surgery including Robotic lobectomies
- Vascular surgery
- Optimized OR staffing models including staff development
- Optimize ICU staffing models including staff development
- CO2 insufflation for open cardiac procedures
- Sternal approximation with steel cables (Pioneer)
8. Extensive collaborative work with cardiology (e.g. optimized
decision making, interventional options, and perioperative
treatment of arrhythmias)
9. Multi-disciplinary Cath Conference
10. Multi-disciplinary Valve Clinic including evaluation for catheter
based aortic valves.
11. Clinical research and industry outreach
12. Community outreach including targeted Mong population
13. Recruitment and development of personnel at all levels
14. Mentoring of junior associate, PAs, etc.
15. Prospective and concurrent encounter documentation and
optimized coding & billing; financial development, practice
budgeting, RVU process revision and reporting.
16. EHR and CPOE development and implementation.
17. Outcomes analysis. STS data functionality, etc.
18. Interface with complementary provider groups, non profit

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foundation outreach, etc.
19. Revision pre admit process.
20. Optimized LTAC and TCU transition, communication, etc. with
strategy in part to reduce readmission rate.
21. Office design and renovation.
22. Grand Rounds speakers/content.
23. Ongoing projects:
- Create climate and mechanism for change
- Adopt expectations of preparation and performance
- Improved disposition planning and reduced length of stay
- Improved a fib prophylaxis
- Eliminate silos
- Hybrid strategies including design and construction hybrid lab
- Minimally invasive valves
- Apico aortic bypass for critical aortic stenosis
- Stand-alone minimally invasive a fib ablation
- Mended Hearts
- Cost savings and efficiency through standardized disposables
and set ups (non disposables)
- Advanced endovascular abdominal and thoracic aortic repair
including debranching and use for urgent and emergent cases
- Proposal for decreasing interprovider cost variability to allow
prospective contracting
- System evolution
- Aviation Medical capabilities
- Strategic planning, process analysis and development
- Branding and practice marketing
Accomplishments & Projects 2008-2010
1. Best valve outcomes ever – first time observed to expected
mortality < 1

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2. Attainment Award & Top Improver Award for CABG outcomes –
Monetary award for performance in the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), Premier healthcare alliance Hospital
Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay for performance
project
3. 2011 Thomson Reuters Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals
4. Outstanding Service Quality/Patient Satisfaction Scores (Press
Ganey)
5. > Doubled cardiac volume
6. Increased revenue as cases no longer left for other facilities
7. Improved efficiency of discharge and shortened length of stay
8. Increased revenue by capturing satellite referrals
9. Educational teaching/opportunities provided to nurses
10. Shortest and most efficient OR times
11. Community outreach including Mended Hearts
12. New or restored capabilities:
- Mitral valve repair
- Atrial fib ablation including minimally invasive (Mini Maze)
- Apico aortic bypass for critical aortic stenosis
- Bridge and PCI mechanical circulatory assist program
- Endovascular abdominal and thoracic aortic repair
including debranching and use for urgent and emergent
cases
- Open aortic arch repair and aortic root replacement
- Extensive collaborative work with cardiology
- Limb salvage revascularization
- Dialysis access and related interventions
- Multidisciplinary Cath conference
- Multidisciplinary M&M conference
- Multidisciplinary Vascular Intervention conference

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- Clinical research entity
- Participation in STS data base
- Standardized preop and postop order sets
- Devised and successfully implemented early extubation
protocol
- SBAR format for standardized handoffs and communication
- Patient receipt and OR transfer checklists
- ICU training curriculum developed to achieve more uniform
knowledge base
- Nursing CVS round table discussions
- US vein mapping in OR prior to vein harvest
- Fostered development of anesthesia TEE competence
- Routine use of epiaortic US
- Selective use of Embolex arterial cannulae and screen
- Use of heart net to minimize required staff and avoid
epicardial injuries
- Selective off pump coronary artery bypass
- Standardized assessment of coagulation abnormalities pre,
intra, and postop with targeted reduction in use of blood
and blood products
- Checklists, briefs and debriefs
- Cost savings through standardized disposables and set ups
- Outcomes analyses
- Optimized coding and billing - templates
- EHR and CPOE implementation
- Preoperative patient optimization as it impacts postop resp
failure, length of stay, etc.
- Fusion of cardiac surgical and cardiology departments
- Began path to hybrid philosophy and capabilities
- Office design and renovation
- Branding and practice marketing
13. Ongoing projects:
- Create climate and mechanism for change
- Adopt expectations of preparation and performance
- Improved disposition planning and reduced length of stay
- Improved a fib prophylaxis
- Eliminate silos
- Hybrid strategies
- Minimally invasive valves

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14. Surgeon of choice for CEO and VIPs
15. Recruitment of personnel at all levels
16. Mentoring of junior associate, med students,
PA students, nursing students, scrub Students
17. Participated in evolution of physician compensation and practice
models