Hope Kilgannon, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She completed her undergraduate studies at American University with a focus on Latin American Studies and received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Kilgannon pursued residency training in emergency medicine at the Cooper University Hospital, where she served as chief resident during her final year. 

Dr. Kilgannon began her career focused on medical education and served as clerkship director for a number of years. She was named EM Teaching Attending of the Year in 2006. During this time, she worked closely with fellow faculty to develop the on-shift teaching attending solely dedicated to bedside student education to improve the undergraduate EM clerkship experience. And, although she transitioned to a role in research over her tenure at Cooper, she remains actively involved in the monthly clerkship didactics and the students’ simulation education exercises as well as serving as teaching attending on clerkship shifts in the ED. Dr. Kilgannon is also an editor for the Cooper EM residency educational FOAMed website, EMDAILY.

Dr. Kilgannon’s greatest contribution to the field of EM has been with regard to the research related to the critical period of illness after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) from cardiac arrest. Working closely with a multi-center research network, her group has explored hypotheses aimed at identifying target parameters after ROSC that might mitigate neurological devastation as well as identifying the severe psychological sequelae of suffering catastrophic illness. Her work on post-cardiac arrest care has been cited by multiple authors, including the “European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines for Post-resuscitation Care 2015” (Resuscitation, 2015) and the “2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care” (Circulation, 2015).

Tae Won Benjamin Kim, MD, is the Division Head for the Orthopaedic Oncology Center, supported by the Cancer Institute and the Bone and Joint Institute at Cooper University Health Care. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Kim completed a clinical fellowship in orthopaedic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is board certified in orthopaedic surgery. His special interests and clinical focus include benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumors, spine and sacral tumors, and metastatic bone disease. He also has interest in limb-sparing surgeries for failed joint replacements and complex joint replacement problems.

Dr. Kim is currently an Associate Professor at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and has held additional teaching and editing positions, including Chief Editor of Oncology Section, University of Pennsylvania, Orthopaedic Journal, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Editor-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Kim has been published in many academic journals including the Journal of Arthroplasty and the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Leonard Kim is chief medical physicist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Before coming to Cooper, Leonard was at Rutgers University from 2011-2015, where he was residency director and founded the certificate program. Before coming to New Jersey, Leonard was at William Beaumont Hospital for 10 years where he had the privilege of working with or under 15 Fellows of the AAPM. Leonard’s research was primarily focused on breast radiotherapy, particularly the issue of targeting microscopic disease. He is currently developing a novel dosimeter for use in MR-guided radiation therapy.