Dr. Takesha J. Cooper grew up in Moreno Valley. She graduated from the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Now Dr. Cooper is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Riverside University Health System, serving as the Associate Medical Director for the mid-county region and practicing in Lake Elsinore at the RUHS Behavioral Health Clinic.

Dr Cooper is working with health systems to meet the needs of communities by training psychiatrists and fostering new fellowships such as child/adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. Children’s mental health issues are the focus of this segment.