Reznik SI, Jaramillo A, Zhang WJ, Patterson GA., Cooper JD, Mohanakumar R. Anti-HLA antibody ligation to HLA class I molecules induces proliferation of airway epithelial cells: a potential mechanism for bronchiolotis obliterans syndrome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 119(1):39-45, Jan. 2000.

Suda T, Mora BN, Cooper JD, D’Ovidio F, Hiratsuka M, Zhang W, Mohanakumar T, Patterson GA. In vivo adenoviral-mediated endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene transfer ameliorates lung allograft ischemia-reperfusion injury. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 119(2):297-304, Feb. 2000.

Gierada DS, Yusen RD, Villanueva IA, Pilgram TK, Slone RM, Lefrak SS, Cooper JD. Patient selection for lung volume reduction surgery. Chest 117(4):991-998, Apr. 2000.

Gierada DS, Saam B, Yablonskiy D, Cooper JD, Lefrak SS, Conradi MS. Dynamic echo planar MR imaging of lung ventilation with hyperpolarized 3He in normal subjects and patients with severe emphysema. NMR Biomed 13(4):176-181, June 2000.

Calhoun RF II, Naziruddin B, Enriquez-Rincon F, Duffy BF, Ritter JM, Sundaresan S, Patterson FA, Cooper JD, Mohanakumar T. Evidence for cytotoxic T lymphocyte response against human lung cancer: reconstitution of antigenic epitope with peptide eluted from lung adenocarcinoma MHC class I. Surgery 128(1):76-85, July 2000.

Meyers BF, Sundt TMIII, Henry S, Trulock EP, Guthrie T, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Selective use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is warranted after lung transplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 120(1):20-26, July 2000.

Meyers BF, Lynch JP, Trulock EP, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Single versus bilateral lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A ten year institutional experience. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 120(1):99-107, July 2000.

Saam BT, Yablonskiy DA, Kodibagkar VD, Leawoods JC, Gierada DS, Cooper JD, Lefrak SS, Conradi MS. MR imaging of diffusion of 3He gas in healthy and diseased lungs. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 44(2):174-179, Aug. 2000.

Battafarano RJ, Anderson RC, Meyers B, Guthrie TJ, Schuller D, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Perioperative Complications After Living Donor Lobectomy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 120(5):909-915, Nov. 2000.

Smith MA, Zhang W, Naziruddin B, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Clotrimazole inhibits lung fi-broblast proliferation in vitro: implications for use in the prevention and treatment of obliter-ative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation. Transplantation 70(8):1263-1267, Oct. 27, 2000.

Meyers BF, Lynch JP, Battafarano RJ, Guthrie TJ, Trulock EP, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Lung transplantation is warranted for stable, ventilator dependent recipients. Ann Thorac Surg 70(5):1675-1678, Nov. 2000.

Meyers BF, Cooper JD. Transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Chest Surg Clin NA 11(2):363-368, May 2001.

Meyers BF, Yusen RD, Guthrie TJ, Davis G, Pohl MS, Lefrak SS, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Outcome of bilateral lung volume reduction surgery in patients with emphysema eligible for lung transplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 122(1):10-17, July 2001.

Gierada DS, Yusen RD, Pilgram TK, Crouch L, Slone RM, Bae KT, Lefrak SS, Cooper JD. Repeatability of quantitative CT indexes of emphysema in patients evaluated for lung volume reduction surgery. Radiology 220(2):448-454, Aug. 2001.

Roper C and Cooper JD. Chronic expanding hematoma of the thorax. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 122(5):1046-1048, Nov. 2001.

Mendeloff EN, Meyers BF, Sundt TM, Guthrie TJ, Sweet SC, de la Morena M, Shapiro S, Blazer DT, Trulock EP, Lynch JP, Pasque MK, Cooper JD, Huddleston CB, Patterson GA. Lung transplantation for pulmonary vascular disease. Ann Thorac Surg 73(1):209-219, Jan. 2002.

Battafarano RJ, Piccirillo JF, Meyers, BF, Hsu HS, Guthrie TJ, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Impact of comorbidity on survival after surgical resection in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123(2):280-287, Feb. 2002.

Yablonskiy DA, Sukstanskii AL, Leawoods JC, Gierada DS, Bretthorst LB, Lefrak SS, Cooper JD, Conradi MS. Quantitative in-vivo assessment of lung microstructure at the alveolar level with hyper-polarized 3 He diffusion MRI. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99(5):3111-3116, Mar. 5, 2002.

Ciccone AM, Stewart KC Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Battafarano RJ, Trulock EP, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Does donor cause of death affect the outcome of lung transplantation? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123(3):429-436, Mar. 2002.

Battafarano RJ, Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Surgical resection of multifocal non-small cell lung cancer is associated with prolonged survival. Ann Thorac Surg 74(4):988-993, Oct. 2002.

Cassivi SD, Meyers BF, Battafarano RJ, Guthrie TJ, Trulock EP, Lynch JP, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Thirteen-year experience in lung transplantation for emphysema. Ann Thorac Surg 74(5):1663-1669, Nov. 2002.

Lausberg HF, Chino K, Patterson GA, Meyers BF, Toeniskoetter PD, Cooper JD. Bronchial fenestration improves expiratory flow in emphysematous human lungs. Ann Thorac Surg 75(2):393-398, Feb. 2003.

Ciccone AM, Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Davis GE, Yusen RD, Lefrak SS, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Long-term outcome of bilateral lung volume reduction in 250 consecutive emphysema patients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 125(3):513-525, Mar. 2003.

Moon MR, Damiano RJ, Patterson GA, Gay WA, Cooper JD. Effect of a cardiac-specific didactic course on thoracic surgery in-training examination performance. Ann Thorac Surg 75(4):1128-1131, Apr. 2003.

Yusen RD, Lefrak SS, Gierada DS, Davis GE, Meyers BF, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. A prospective evaluation of lung volume reduction surgery in 200 consecutive patients. Chest 123(4):1026-1037, Apr. 2003.

Rendina EA, De Giacomo T, Venuta F, Coloni GF, Meyers BF, Pattterson GA, Cooper JD. Feasibility and safety of the airway bypass procedure for patients with emphysema. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 125(6):1294-1299, June 2003.

McDonald JM, Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Battafarano RJ, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Comparison of open subxiphoid pericardial drainage with percutaneous catheter drainage for symptomatic pericardial effusion. Ann Thor Surg 76(3):811-815, Sept. 2003.

Meyers BF, Yusen RD, Lefrak SS, Guthrie TJ, Patterson GA, Lefrak SS, David GE, Cooper JD. Results of lung volume reduction surgery in patients meeting a National Emphysema Treatment Trial high-risk criterion. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 127(3):829-835, Mar. 2004.

Battafarano RJ, Force S, Meyers BF, Hicks SF, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Benefits of resec-tion for metachronous lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 127(3):836-842, Mar. 2004.

Pechet TT, Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Battafarano RJ, Trulock EP, Cooper JD, Patterson GA. Lung transplantation for lymphangioleiomyomatosis. J Heart Lung Transplant 23(3):301-308, Mar. 2004.

Choong CK, Meyers BF, Battafarano RJ, Guthrie TJ, Davis G, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Lung cancer resection combined with lung volume reduction in patients with severe emphysema. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 127(5):1323-1331, May 2004.

Woods JC, Yablonskiy DA, Chino K, Tanoli TSK, Cooper JD, Conradi MS. Magnetization tagging decay to measure long-range 3He diffusion in healthy and emphysematous canine lungs. Magn Reson Med 51(5):1002-1008, May 2004.

Chino K, Choong CK, Lausberg HF, Toeniskoetter PD, Bae KT, Pierce JA, Hogg JC, Cooper JD. A canine model for production of severe unilateral panacinar emphysema. Experimental Lung Research 30(4):319-332, June 2004.

Schipper PH, Meyers BF, Battafarano RJ, Guthrie TJ, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Outcomes after resection of giant emphysematous bullae. Ann Thorac Surg 78:976-982, 2004.

Parekh K, Ramachandran S, Cooper J, Bigger D, Patterson GA, Mohanakumar T Tenascin-C, over expressed in lung cancer down regulates effector functions of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. Lung Cancer 47(1):17-29, Jan. 2005.

Choong CK, Haddad FJ, Gee EY, Cooper JD. Feasibility and safety of airway bypass stent placement and influence of topical mitomycin C on stent patency. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 129(3):632-638, Mar. 2005.

Conradi MS, Yablonskiy DA, Woods JC, Gierada DS, Jacob RE, Chang YV, Choong CK, Sukstanskii AL, Tanoli T, Lefrak SS, Cooper, JD. 3He diffusion MRI of the lung. Acad Radiol. 2005 Nov;12(11):1406-13.

Sultan PK, Meyers BF, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Fibrovascular polyps of the esophagus. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Dec;130(6):1709-10.

Smith MA, Patterson GA, Cooper JD. Dysphagia in the young male: the ringed esophagus. Ann Thorac Surg. 2006 Jan;81(1):354-6.

Choong CK, Phan L, Massetti P, Haddad FJ, Martinez C, Roschak E, Cooper JD. Prolongation of patency of airway bypass stents with use of drug-eluting stents. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006 Jan;131(1):60-4. Epub 2005 Dec 5.

Sultan PK, Meyers BF, Guthrie TJ, Davis GE, Yusen RD, Lefrak SS, Patterson GA, Cooper JD.Unilateral Lung Volume Reduction: Long Term Outcome in 49 Emphysema Patients.(Submitted)

Reviews in Peer Reviewed Research Publications (last 5 years)
Cooper JD. Management of the solitary pulmonary nodule: Directed resection. [Review] Sem Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 14(3):286-291, July 2002.

Cooper JD. Clinical trials and future prospects for lung volume reduction surgery. [Review] Sem Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 14(4):365-370, Oct. 2002.

Research Publications, Non-Peer Reviewed (last 5 years)
Lefrak SS, Cooper JD. Accountability, the NETT, and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. A publication of the American College of Chest Physicians. 18(4):1-3, 2001.

Force S, Cooper JD. Horizontal muscle sparing incision. Operative Tech Cardiac Thorac Surg 8(2):68-70, 2003.

Editorials, Chapters and Participation in Committee Reports (last 5 years)
Meyers BF, Yusen RD, Lefrak SS, Cooper JD. Improved long-term survival seen after lung volume reduction surgery compared to continued medical therapy for emphysema. [Letter] Ann Thorac Surg 71(6):2081, June 2001.

Cooper, JD. Paying the piper: The NETT strikes a sour note. [Editorial] Ann Thorac Surg 72(2):330-333, Aug. 2001.

Cooper JD, Lefrak SS. Surgery for emphysema [Commentary]. NEJM 346(11):860-862, Mar. 14, 2002.

Choong CK, Cooper JD, Waddell TK. Surgical management of lung cancer in patients with severe emphysema: lessons from lung volume reduction surgery. In Columbus F, ed. Progress in Lung Cancer Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2005 (In Press).