With expertise in behavioral health and health equity, Dr. Cooper is the clinical lead for the Stacie Mathewson Behavioral Health & Addiction Institute at Renown Health, where intensive treatment is given to struggling patients. This is especially meaningful given that Nevada ranks last in overall mental health. Dr. Cooper’s research on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental health outcomes and her commitment to community-based prevention has been pivotal to addressing need in a state that also posts the highest youth suicide rates. Addressing these dire needs, the Renown Health team convenes area nonprofits, state agencies, service providers, funders and concerned community members in the “Connect Washoe County” collaborative to share data, develop and fund interventions like the “Signs of Suicide” teen peer prevention training program, and measure improvements made in youth behavioral health. She is also chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences for the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine. Dr. Cooper and her associates train the next generation of psychiatrists through a psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program. Formerly, Dr. Cooper served as a professor in the department of psychiatry and neurosciences, and as an associate training director for child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine.
