BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Cooper graduated from Rhodes College with a B.S. in Biology in 1987. He earned his medical degree from University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1993 and was a Howard Hughes Medical Student Research Training fellow at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Cooper served an internship in Medicine at Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, then became a Neurology Resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1993. He was Neurology Chief Resident in 1995-1996, then served a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians at Johns Hopkins from 1996 – 1999.

Cooper joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2002 as assistant professor for the Department of Neurology, a position he continues to hold. He is also a member of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, the Neuroscience Graduate Program, the Center for Molecular Neuroscience and the Developmental Biology Program for Vanderbilt University.

Michael K. Cooper, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Movement Disorders
Address: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
MRB III
Nashville, TN 37232
Phone: 615-936-0060
Fax: 615-936-1229

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