Physician, educator, science communicator, writer

Avraham (Avi) Z. Cooper, MD is a pulmonary/critical care physician and Associate Professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. He obtained an undergraduate degree in English Literature before going to medical school at Harvard University. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he developed a deep passion for medical education and science communication. After completing a pulmonary/critical care medicine fellowship at Ohio State, he joined the faculty as Program Director of the fellowship and continues to teach, write, and care for patients.

He has won multiple awards for teaching and humanism at Harvard and Ohio State, and he is an inductee of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Avraham’s writing about science and medicine have been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, MedPage Today, Journal of General Internal Medicine, CHEST, and Journal of Graduate Medical Education, among others.

Avraham believes strongly in the power of technology to flatten hierarchies in medicine and help teach medical learners across the world. In 2019 he began posting educational threads (“tweetorials”) on Twitter about curiosity questions in medicine, which since then have in total reached over 10 million people across the world. In 2020, along with his cohosts Hannah Abrams, MD and Anthony (Tony) Breu, MD, he co-founded The Curious Clinicians, a Medical Podcast that asks “Why?”. The Curious Clinicians explores wide-ranging questions in medicine - from why tick bites could cause red meat allergies to why fevers are beneficial in infection to why lobsters age more slowly than humans do. He views the podcast as an extension of both his love for teaching and passion for novel ways to educate others in science and healthcare.

Avraham is the co-author, along with Tony Breu, of the forthcoming book “WHY DOESN’T YOUR STOMACH DIGEST ITSELF?” (W.W. Norton), an exploration of the remarkable resilience of the human body.

He is represented by Kristin van Ogtrop (Inkwell Management).