Dr. Cooper is Professor and Vice Chairman of Urology at the University of Iowa, Iowa City and serves as Director of the Pediatric Urology Division at the Children’s Hospital. In addition, he has served as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine since 2006. Dr. Cooper graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a two-year pediatric urology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His clinical research interests include vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), bowel and bladder dysfunction, neurogenic bladder, and hydronephrosis. In 2019, Dr. Cooper received the Societies for Pediatric Urology Clinical Research Prize for developing and patenting devices for home use in patients with neurogenic bladder that attach to a catheter to record bladder pressure and volume with intermittent catheterization. In 2022, the Urology Care Foundation of the American Urological Association recognized Dr. Cooper's career-long research contributions "to enhancing the treatment of children suffering with urologic conditions and improving their quality of life" with the John W. Duckett, Jr., MD, Pediatric Urology Research Excellence Award.