Dr. Takesha Valentine Cooper: Leadership, Education and Love
发布日期: 1月. 10, 2024
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When she could not afford to attend her first choice of UCLA, Takesha库珀 began her higher education journey at Crafton Hills College. Cooper now realizes how fate worked in her favor, and beginning her higher education journey at Crafton was the absolute best choice. Cooper notes that being mentored by Mr. E (Computer Science Professor Jay Edwards), taking physics classes from Mr. Thurman, getting involved in student leadership through the Associated Students, becoming president of the campus’s Black Student Union, and meeting her future husband were a few of the highlights that have prompted her to become an advocate for community colleges.
After graduating from CHC in 1994, Cooper transferred to UC Santa Barbara, where she
earned a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 她接着说
to earn a master’s in those disciplines from UC Riverside. Next, Cooper earned her
Doctor of Medicine degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern
California and went on to do her residency in San Mateo County and a fellowship at
Stanford University.
Cooper began her career working within the Riverside University Health System and
Riverside County Department of Mental Health, where she oversaw regional psychiatric
县诊所. She also worked as an adjunct professor of psychiatry at Stanford
University School of Medicine and became a double board-certified child, adolescent,
and adult psychiatrist. Cooper used her education, training, and experience to create
her own private practice that served patients from a variety of diverse backgrounds.
Cooper’s accomplishments, however, do not end there. During her seven years at the
UC Riverside School of Medicine, Cooper worked as a clinical associate and professor
in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and an associate training director
for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and served as vice chair of education, residency
program director, chair of the admissions committee, and equity advisor.
In 2022, Cooper graduated from the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM)
program offered through Drexel University and, in August of 2023, she was selected
after a national search to be the Department Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Chief of Behavioral Health
在著名的健康中心.
Though it has been thirty years since she attended CHC, Cooper knows firsthand what
an impact a place like CHC can have on a person’s life, saying: “The role that community
colleges have on the lives of others is so important. I share this with my residents
and medical students as well as high school students who worry that this path will
lead to them appearing 'less than' and I reassure them with the stories of how wonderful
我的经验是.”
博士. Cooper begins her duties as Department Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Chief of Behavioral Health
在著名的健康中心, Crafton Hills College honors the work she has done, the impacts
she has made, and her future contributions.