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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"">On behalf of Dr. Ross-Lee:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Eras Medium ITC","sans-serif"">We are saddened to learn of the passing of Richard “Buz” Cooper and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:22.5pt;color:#01256E">In Memoriam: Richard “Buz” Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#747475;letter-spacing:.6pt">A Distinguished Career of Cancer Care and Health Policy Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.8pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">DATE: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#014886;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#014886;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.2pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">JAN, 2016</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#014886;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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is with great sadness that we announce to the Osteopathic community that Richard "Buz" Cooper, MD, has died from complications related to cancer.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">A memorial event commemorating Dr. Cooper’s life and contributions is being planned for family, friends
and colleagues at a future date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Cooper Family Research Fund, care of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center Development Office, 3535 Market Street, Ste. 750, Philadelphia PA 19104.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">Cooper, a hematologist/oncologist, began his long and distinguished career with a 1963 fellowship at the
National Cancer Institute, spent two years as a Harvard faculty member and in 1971 moved to the University of Pennsylvania where he founded Penn's Cancer Center. He later went on to re-invent himself as one of the country's most controversial health services
researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">Richard 'Buz' Cooper, MD, died last weekend from cancer-related complications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Fearless and relentless</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">"Buz will be remembered as a great example of a health policy expert who was fearless in standing up for his beliefs and relentless
in developing research support for his ideas. He will be missed," said Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Executive Director Dan Polsky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">In the late 1980s, Cooper left Penn to become Dean of the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, the city where he was born. There, he established and led an academic center devoted to health workforce research. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">He returned to Penn in the first decade of the new century, becoming a LDI Senior Fellow. He had an office
in LDI's building and a research agenda focused on the question of whether or not the country would have enough future physicians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">In 2002 he wrote, "shortages of physicians will force the medical profession to redefine itself in ever
more narrow scientific and technological spheres while other disciplines evolve to fill important gaps."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Health care innovation</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">In a 2009 appearance before the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions Cooper warned, "There is no time in the
past when the US has had shortages of physicians of the magnitude that is now developing. Innovation is the operative word, both for expanding training capacity and structuring the practice of medicine." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">Friend and colleague Linda Aiken, Penn Nursing School professor and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
(CHOPR), remembered, "Many of us at CHOPR worked closely with Buz over the years, and he was a frequent lecturer in our classes and presenter in CHOPR seminars. He was an early advocate for nurses taking on expanded responsibilities in primary care and he
published many influential papers providing evidence to support full scope of practice for advanced practice nurses."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">'Remarkable transformation'</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">David Asch, Professor at both Penn Medicine and The Wharton School and the former LDI Executive Director who brought Cooper
back to Penn, said "his was a remarkable transformation from someone who was a leader in hematology/oncology to someone who became a forceful leader in the area of health policy. He was really a larger-than-life kind of character."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">When Cooper retired from Penn, he became Director of the Center for the Future of the Healthcare Workforce at New York Institute
of Technology and maintained a high profile as a health policy expert. In his articles, his blog at <a href="http://buzcooper.com/"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#606060;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">BuzCooper.com</span></a>,
and his presentations in health policy venues Cooper countered mainstream thinking about high health costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Contrarian views</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">He took particular umbrage with the Dartmouth Atlas view that the waste and inefficiencies of physicians and health care systems
were responsible for a large amount of the country's runaway health care costs. Instead, he championed the concept that widespread poverty was a primary driver of excessive health costs -- the idea being that the condition of poverty keeps a large population
from getting routine health care over a lifetime, resulting in massive numbers of advanced morbidities later in life that are hugely expensive to treat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">This was the central theme of the project he had just finished when he died last weekend -- a new book
entitled, "Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform." Johns Hopkins University Press Acquisition Editor Robin Coleman said the book is scheduled for publication in August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060;letter-spacing:.1pt">"I worked closely with Buz on this," said Coleman. "I found his willingness to examine issues in ways
that looked beyond established views inspiring and I was equally impressed by his fabulous work ethic and generous spirit."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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