Dr. Cooley is a board certified dermatologist and diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS). He serves on the Board of Governors of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) and is also a board member of the ABHRS. He is a frequent lecturer at hair transplantation conferences, and has authored numerous articles and textbook chapters in the field.

He is an active member of the ISHRS and served as the program chairman for their annual scientific meeting in New York City in 2003. He has served on several ISHRS committees and is a frequent speaker at their conferences.

Dr. Cooley is co-editor of the Hair Transplant Forum International, the most widely read journal dedicated to hair transplantation. He is committed to researching improvements in the field of hair restoration and has received three research grants from the ISHRS.

He is also active in research on “hair follicle cloning” serving as head U.S. consultant for Intercytex, Ltd, a British company on the forefront of this exciting technology. He has also been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New Yorker and Wired magazines.

Dr. Cooley was born in Springfield, Missouri and graduated magna cum laude from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. After graduation, he worked in a research unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

He attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his medical degree in 1992 after graduating with highest honors. After a medical internship at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, he completed his dermatology residency at the University of Maryland where he served as chief resident.

While in Baltimore, Dr. Cooley underwent intensive training in dermatologic surgery and hair transplantation, training from Johns Hopkins. After residency, he established his practice in Charlotte, North Carolina.