Brian C. Cooley, PhD

Associate Professor
Director of the Microsurgery and Laser Research and Training Laboratory

Tel: (414) 456-8729
Email: bcooley@mcw.edu

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Research Interests: deep vein thrombosis, microvascular surgery thrombosis and complications, antithrombotic therapies, vein graft complications, spine fusion surgery, rodent models in orthopaedic research, surgeon hand tremor.

Dr. Brian Cooley joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1986, with faculty appointment in 2001. He received his BA in Biophysics from The Johns Hopkins University and his doctorate in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He has extensive involvement as a microsurgery instructor with over 30 years' experience, at The Curtis Hand Center and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Cooley has been the Principal Investigator on several NIH-funded grants and other extramural grants, as well as serving as co-investigator on several NIH grants. He has over 75 publications in the peer-reviewed literature and has served on Executive Councils of international societies in the field of microsurgery. His current research activities focus on thrombosis in large vessels, the causes of vein graft complications, and factors that influence spine fusion surgery outcome, among other topics. He has active collaborations with many investigators from other U.S. institutions, including NIH intramural labs, as well as international collaborations. He is also a long-standing member of both the MCW IACUC and IRB committees. His laboratory is located in the MACC Fund Building of the MCW campus.