Biography and Expertise
Christopher S. Cooper, MD, FAAP, FACS, is Professor and Vice Chairman of Urology at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He also 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. In 2017 he was awarded the endowed Tyrone D. Artz Chair in Urology.
Dr Cooper served as the Executive Secretary of the Pediatric Urology Advisory Council to the American Board of Urology, past-president of the American Academy of Pediatrics Affiliate Section on Urology, past-president of the Society for Fetal Urology and of the North Central Section of the American Urologic Association, and is an active member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. Dr. Cooper is currently serving as the Chair of the American Urology Board Examination Committee.He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Urology and has over 200 urologic publications and is a co-editor of the 13th edition of Campbell’s Urology textbook.
Dr Cooper graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine where he was awarded the Nathan G. Alcock Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Urology. He completed his Urology residency after receiving an Outstanding Teaching Award from medical students and the Iowa Urologic Society and has received multiple teaching awards including a Collegiate Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
Dr Cooper completed a two-year pediatric urology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was the recipient of an American Foundation for Urologic Disease and American Urologic Association Research Scholarship. Additionally, he was awarded the first Frank Hinman, Jr. Award for clinical research by the Society of Pediatric Urology. Dr. Cooper received the American Urologic Association John W. Duckett, Jr., MD Pediatric Urology Research Excellence Award in 2022.