Arjola Cosper, D.O.

Pediatrics - Allergy and Immunology

Biography

Arjola Cosper, D.O., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Cosper earned her medical degree at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Goryeb Children’s Hospital in New Jersey and received advanced training through an allergy and immunology fellowship at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York.

Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2024.

Dr. Cosper is an Ambassador for the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and a member of several professional associations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Education & Training

Graduate School - Touro College

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
American Academy of Pediatrics
American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Allergy Society
Dallas Medical Society
Texas Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Society
Texas Medical Association

Honors & Awards

COVID-19 Pandemic Response Service Award 2021, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
House Cup Mentor Champion 2019, Goryeb Children’s Hospital
The John Chapel Award for Compassionate Communication in Pediatrics 2019, Goryeb Children’s Hospital
Ben Josephson Award for Most Humanistic Approach to Pediatric Care 2019, Goryeb Children’s Hospital

Books & Publications

Books
- Circadian rhythm of allergic rhinitis and skin testing in Allergy and Sleep: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice
  Cosper AK, Oppenheimer J, Cox L (2019), Cham, CH, Springer
Publications
- Recurrent Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps with Slow and Limited Response to Dupilumab
  Cosper A, Ferastraoaru D Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice 2025 Nov 13 3156-3157.e16
- 10 ways to improve your management of food allergy
  Anagnostou A, Lieberman J, Bingemann T, Buckey T, Cianferoni A, Cosper A, Kim E, Love M, Mallapaty A, Moore L, Wasserman R, Nowak-Wegrzyn A, Somani S, Yu J, Greenhawt M Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 2025 May 134 616-618
- Characteristics of an ethnically diverse cohort of children with pediatric cutaneous mastocytosis: One institution's experience
  Capellan Vasquez E, Cosper A, Ferastraoaru D Pediatric dermatology 2024 Mar 41 256-259
- Circadian Rhythm of Allergic Rhinitis, Skin Testing and Allergen Immunotherapy
  Cosper A, Oppenheimer J, Cox L 2019 Jan 247-252
- Inactivation of the tumor suppressor WTX in a subset of pediatric tumors
  Akhavanfard S, Vargas SO, Han M, Nitta M, Chang CB, Le LP, Fazlollahi L, Nguyen Q, Ma Y, Cosper A, Dias-Santagata D, Han JY, Bergethon K, Borger DR, Ellisen LW, Pomeroy SL, Haber DA, Iafrate AJ, Rivera MN Genes Chromosomes and Cancer 2014 Jan 53 67-77
- Detection of novel actionable genetic changes in salivary duct carcinoma helps direct patient treatment
  Nardi V, Sadow PM, Juric D, Zhao D, Cosper AK, Bergethon K, Scialabba VL, Batten JM, Borger DR, Iafrate AJ, Heist RS, Lawrence DP, Flaherty KT, Bendell JC, Deschler D, Li Y, Wirth LJ, Dias-Santagata D Clinical Cancer Research 2013 Jan 19 480-490
- Apocrine-Eccrine Carcinomas: Molecular and Immunohistochemical Analyses
  Le LP, Dias-Santagata D, Pawlak AC, Cosper AK, Nguyen AT, Selim MA, Deng A, Horick NK, Iafrate AJ, Mihm MC, Hoang MP PloS one 2012 Oct 7
- Activation of PI3K signaling in merkel cell carcinoma
  Nardi V, Song Y, Santamaria-Barria JA, Cosper AK, Lam Q, Faber AC, Boland GM, Yeap BY, Bergethon K, Scialabba VL, Tsao H, Settleman J, Ryan DP, Borger DR, Bhan AK, Hoang MP, Iafrate AJ, Cusack JC, Engelman JA, Dias-Santagata D Clinical Cancer Research 2012 Mar 18 1227-1236
- Genotypic and histological evolution of lung cancers acquiring resistance to EGFR inhibitors
  Sequist LV, Waltman BA, Dias-Santagata D, Digumarthy S, Turke AB, Fidias P, Bergethon K, Shaw AT, Gettinger S, Cosper AK, Akhavanfard S, Heist RS, Temel J, Christensen JG, Wain JC, Lynch TJ, Vernovsky K, Mark EJ, Lanuti M, Iafrate AJ, Mino-Kenudson M, Engelman JA Science translational medicine 2011 Mar 3
- A sensitive and specific diagnostic panel to distinguish diffuse astrocytoma from astrocytosis: Chromosome 7 gain with mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and p53
  Camelo-Piragua S, Jansen M, Ganguly A, Kim JC, Cosper AK, Dias-Santagata D, Nutt CL, Iafrate AJ, Louis DN Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2011 Feb 70 110-115