Christopher S. Cooper, MD

Dr. Cooper was recently awarded Subspecialty Certification in Pediatric Urology as an American Board of Urology Diplomate. Dr. Cooper and Dr. Austin are the only two subspecialty-certified pediatric urologists in the state of Iowa.

A native of Iowa City, Iowa, Dr. Cooper graduated from the University of Iowa College of medicine in 1991, where he was awarded the Nathan G. Alcock Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Urology. In 1997 he completed the University of Iowa urology residency program after receiving an outstanding teaching award from the students and the Iowa Urologic Society.

Dr. Cooper subsequently completed a two-year pediatric urology fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During this fellowship, he was the recipient of an American Foundation for Urologic Disease and American Urologic Association research scholarship. He was subsequently awarded the first Frank Hinman, Jr. Award for clinical research by the Society of Pediatric Urology.

Following completion of his fellowship he was recruited back to the University of Iowa School of Medicine, where his practice is exclusively Pediatric Urology at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.