Sharon Cooper

Dr. Sharon Cooper is a developmental and forensic
pediatrician who has spent a career in the United States
Army. Having retired as a Colonel at Fort Bragg, NC, the
Army’s largest military installation, as the Chief of
Pediatrics, she has devoted herself as a full time
physician in the areas of developmental pediatrics and
child maltreatment.

Dr. Cooper has provided more than a hundred training
seminars over the world, and holds numerous positions in
both the military and civilian communities, to included
state board member of North Carolina Professional Society
on the Abuse of Children (NCPSAC), the American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP) subcommittee on child abuse and neglect
for North Carolina, and faculty at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
She is also an instructor at the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Her area of expertise
is child sexual exploitation.