Gregory E. Cooper, M D , Ph D | Norton Medical Group

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Louisville, KY 40241
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My name's Greg Cooper. I'm a neurologist really focused on memory disorders, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. I went into this field really because of a fascination with memory and cognition. And through my training, I really learned how much I enjoy interacting with people and interacting with individuals with these disorders. And ultimately, I want to be able to help individuals with memory disorders have the best possible quality of life they can.
Typical patient is probably in their sixties, seventies, eighties. Some are older than that. And these are typically individuals that are suffering from conditions like Alzheimer's disease, or at least a similar related condition.
I want to focus on people as individual human beings. I want to get to know them, and I want to treat them as an individual. And realizing that many of these conditions we can't cure yet, we hope we will be able to in the future, but we still want to provide that best possible quality of life. And these are individuals who really can have a very nice quality of life for many, many years. And then I also want to take into account the entire family. These are not illnesses that just affect individuals. These are illnesses that affect entire families, and we need to understand that, and we need to approach it as such.
I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and I've spent almost my entire life there. I trained out at the University of Iowa under Antonio Damasio years ago, but always had that urge to come back home. And then I was recruited to the Norton Neuroscience Institute really just because of the great opportunity. The resources, the support, the commitment to creating a clinic, and a whole care philosophy the way I want to do it was just too great an opportunity to turn away.
Generally like to read, like to exercise. And in the last couple of years, really enjoyed traveling with my wife.