Professor Sally-Ann Cooper

BSc, MB, BS, MD, FRCPsych.
Head of Division, Community Based Sciences/Professor of Learning Disabilities
E-mail sacooper@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Tel 0141 211 3701

Professor Cooper was appointed to the University of Glasgow in 1999 to its foundation Chair of Learning Disabilities, and established the Glasgow University Centre in Developmental Disabilities. She has been Head of Division of Community Based Sciences since August 2006, and leads the Psychosocial Systems programme of work, including the developmental and psychosocial interventions themes. She also works as an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Professor Cooper’s research interests are in health improvement for adults with intellectual disabilities, particularly mental health epidemiology. She has published extensively in this area. She chaired the working group to establish diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders for use with adults with intellectual disabilities (DC-LD) on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists which is currently entering its third print run (published by Gaskell Press in 2001), and is editing the 2nd edition; and on behalf of NHS Health Scotland, chaired the Scottish intellectual disabilities health needs assessment, published in 2004. She is the mental health editor of the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities Research.

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