Dr. Cooper was born in Kingston, Jamaica and moved with her family to Houston, TX at age 6. She attended Texas A&M University for both her undergraduate and veterinary training and was awarded her DVM degree in 1996. Luckily for Knoxville, she chose to come to the University of Tennessee for her veterinary internship and decided to start her family and settle here. She worked in another private practice for a few years before settling in comfortably with the Fountain City Animal Hospital family. Dr. Khalsa was interested in having her join the practice from their very first meeting, but it wasn’t until 2005 that she had an opening to offer her. It is the sense of true “second family” that Dr. Cooper feels with her coworkers that makes working at Fountain City Animal Hospital so special for her.

Dr. Cooper is an excellent diagnostician and surgeon, always enjoying the back-and-forth the doctors engage in when presented with complex cases, but her special interest is in cardiology. She has been honing her skills in echocardiography for many years and enjoys the challenge of deciphering the true meaning of all the information gleaned from physical exam findings, chest x-rays, blood pressure evaluations, EKG and Holter monitor readings, and echocardiogram findings.

She is the mother of two beautiful school aged children so has a very busy life balancing work, family activities, and the needs of her goofy pit bull dog Pete, two cats, and a tankful of fish. On top of all that, no weekend is complete without her giving full attention to a couple of football games (college or NFL, no matter to her!). When football season is over, there’s always crocheting. (Source)

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