Benjamin T. Kopp, MD, MPH

Benjamin Kopp, MD, MPH, graduated from Ohio State University School of Medicine and received his MPH from Ohio State University College of Public Health. He completed pediatrics residency and a pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital before serving on the faculty from 2012-2022. In 2022, Dr. Kopp moved to Atlanta to become the Director of the Pulmonary Sickle Cell Program and Director of Pulmonary and Sleep Physician Research at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Co-Director of the Cystic Fibrosis and Airway Disease (CF-AIR) Research Center, and Co-Director of the Pediatric Residency Investigative Scholars at Emory (PRISE). Dr. Kopp has also been extensively involved in the American Thoracic Society for over 13 years. He is the recent Program Chair-Elect and Chair (2021-2023), former Web director (2016-2019), and current Planning Committee Chair for the Pediatrics Assembly in 2026.

In 2026, Dr. Kopp returned to Nationwide Children's as Division Chief. Dr. Kopp’s vision as new Pulmonary Division Chief utilizes this multi-faceted background in clinical care, research, advocacy, and administrative service to empower colleagues to challenge dogma and enact innovative change while identifying young trainees and faculty of all backgrounds to continue to build an inclusive leadership and community structure. Utilization of technologic innovations in research, clinical care, education, communication, and training are critical to continued divisional growth.