Koopman to present Nixon Lecture Aug. 6

By Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications
Dr. Richelle Koopman
Richelle Koopman, MD

The Department of Family and Community Medicine hosts the Sam & Elizabeth Nixon Lectureship in Family Medicine, Aug. 6 in MSB 2.135 and via Zoom.

Keynote speaker for the 2025 Nixon Lecture is Richelle J. Koopman, MD, professor and chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri. Koopman will present on “A Family Medicine Research Journey: Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling Hypertension (COACH).”

Zoom Meeting Number: 913 1248 9554
Password: 073594

Koopman was named chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in January 2024. She has been a clinical health services researcher for 20 years, and her work focuses on improving care for chronic conditions through patient and physicians use of electronic clinical decision support tools, particularly focusing on decision support for shared decision–making in hypertension.

Koopman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the UMPC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency. After practicing for five years in the rural Florida panhandle, she completed an academic fellowship and masters of clinical research at Medical University of South Carolina. She served four years as faculty at MUSC before joining the faculty at the University of Missouri, where she has been a practicing family physician, researcher, and leader for 18 years.

Koopman is a graduate of the ADFM LEADS fellowship, the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine fellowship and the Harvard Program for Chairs of Annals of Family Medicine. She is the immediate past president of NAPCRG and the current chair of the Council of Academic Family Medicine.

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