Kayla E. Cooper, MD

About Kayla E. Cooper, MD

Titles

Pediatric Resident Physcian, LEAP Track

Certifications

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Awards and Honors

2024, Medical College of Georgia Dr. Harry B. O’Rear MD Award 
2023, Alpha Upsilon Phi Honor Society
2023, Medical College of Georgia, Roy Witherington MD Scholarship 
2023, Gold Humanism Honor 
2022, J.C. Lewis Scholarship Recipient
2018, Vanderbilt University, Outstanding Community Servant

Education & training

Undergraduate Degree

Spanish and Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Medical Degree

MD - Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Residency

Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Publications

Publications

2024

Abdallah KE, Cooper KE, Buscetta AJ, Ramirez HC, Neighbors HW, Bonham VL. An Examination of John Henryism in Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Aug;12(4):2335-2344. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-02054-5. Epub 2024 Jul 8. PMID: 38977655; PMCID: PMC11707035.

2022

Cooper KE, Abdallah KE, Angove RSM, Gallagher KD, Bonham VL. Navigating Access to Cancer Care: Identifying Barriers to Precision Cancer Medicine. Ethn Dis. 2022 Jan 20;32(1):39-48. doi: 10.18865/ed.32.1.39. PMID: 35106043; PMCID: PMC8785861.

2021

Raymond MB, Cooper KE, Parker LS, Bonham VL. Practices and Attitudes toward Returning Genomic Research Results to Low-Resource Research Participants. Public Health Genomics. 2021;24(5-6):241-252. doi: 10.1159/000516782. Epub 2021 Jul 6. PMID: 34229325; PMCID: PMC8592386.