Some Personal Information about Diet Dr. J.T. Cooper

I have never seen many of you who are reading this as a patient before now.  I thought you might like to have a little more information about my personal life and me.  I opened the Waycross office in 1981 and the Albany office in 1983 and Griffin office in 1997.  My Lake Park office is now open and I am there 5 days out of every 28.

A lot of you wanted me to put together some biographical information, so I thought this would be a good place to put it.  I was born in 1935 and raised mostly in Atlanta.  I have two grown daughters and two granddaughters, born in 1984 and 1988.  My undergraduate and medical school training was done at Emory University in Atlanta.  I have a Medical Degree and Master of Public Health degree, the latter earned in 1987. I have been board-certified in Family Practice and in Bariatrics (medical weight control) as well.  Since 1968 I have been actively teaching other physicians the techniques of Bariatric medicine.

My hobbies are many.  The main one was the Air Force Reserve, but I retired in 1993.  I was a flight surgeon and retired with the rank of Colonel.  I also like to write books and recently finished number eleven, the University X-Cal Diet, available by mail from Green Tree Press.  I keep trim by practicing various martial arts, particularly Karate and Judo, with some of my younger and more agile friends.  I hold a Black Belt (Second Degree, or Ni Dan) in Korean style  Karate (Tae Kwon Do), and a First Degree (Sho Dan) Black Belt in Judo, I have been training policemen and servicemen in unarmed combat techniques since 1965, as well as teaching short courses in self-defense at the YMCA and YWCA when time allowed.

The best part of my personal and professional life is my wife, Sharon Cooper.  She has both a B.S. and an M.S. in nursing, plus an M.A. in early child development.  She has published two best-selling textbooks on psychiatric nursing.  I use her expertise in counseling our patients on ways to conform to their diets.  He main job is taking care of her " Beariatrician" husband.  She and I married in 1980 and plan to publish a textbook on bariatric medicine for physicians' use.  She also published a politically oriented book, TAXPAYER'S TEAPARTY, which is now out of print.  She is a State Legislator, representing District 41 (East Cobb County).  She is a frequent speaker at political gatherings and is a graduate of the Coverdell Good Government Institute.  She was appointed by President George Bush to the U.S, Justice Department's Committee on Control of Violence Against Women and served a four-year as a senior member.