Carisa M. Cooney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also serves as the department’s Director of Education Innovation and the Director of the Clinical Research Core. She is a member of the Plastic Surgery Residency Redesign Faculty Team which in 2013 was awarded a two-year grant to improve residency training, efficiency, and evaluation and business practice modules with an eye toward decreasing the time necessary to complete training. Thus far, this grant has led to three additional grants: two Maryland Innovation Initiative grants (2015 & 2016) and a National Science Foundation SBIR grant (2021).

Ms. Cooney leverages her research experience to investigate various topics relating to the business of healthcare and to provide supplemental education to residents, fellows, staff, & faculty in this area. To this end she founded and directed The Stanley A. Klatsky, MD, Business of Healthcare Endowed Lectureship (2015-2023). She is involved in multiple areas of research from burn outcomes to vascularized composite allotransplantation, has mentored over 45 research trainees and fellows in clinical and educational research, and has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific articles. She enjoys presenting locally, nationally, and internationally on her research.