Sharon Cooper is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Additionally, she is the executive director of Developmental Forensic Pediatrics, P. A., a consulting firm that provides clinical care for children with disabilities and victims of child maltreatment, and a forensic pediatrician at the Southern Regional Area Health Education Center, which provides forensic pediatric services for nine counties in North Carolina.

Dr. Cooper is a registered and certified physician within the Child Medical Evaluation Program under the auspices of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This program provides a standardized means of evaluating child maltreatment victims, methods of documentation, peer review, and regular continued medical education via teleconference for the select physicians in the state who provide evaluations for Child Abuse and Neglect. She has published chapters on the subject of diagnosing child sexual abuse and persons with disabilities as well as sexual assault in the incarcerated population. Due to the scope of Dr. Cooper's practice, she is closely associated with the city, county, federal, and military court systems and functions as an expert witness in the areas of general, developmental, and forensic pediatrics. She also provides training for military and civilian physicians, law enforcement officers, social workers, psychologists, chaplains, attorneys, and judges who handle child maltreatment cases.

Dr. Cooper has presented in more than 100 national and international conferences in her specialized areas. She is an instructor at the Army Medical Education Department College and School, a Soldier & Family Support Branch of the Department of Preventive Health Services. This department provides multidisciplinary training for all professionals who track, treat, and identify child maltreatment cases in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marine Corps. She has been an annual presenter for the Children's Hospital Hackensack Medical Center and is an educator of Internet crimes against children for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia.

Having serving 21 years of active duty at several installations in the United States and overseas, Dr. Cooper is now a retired US Army colonel. She currently sees developmental and forensic patients on a regular basis at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the largest army military installation in the world.

Dr. Cooper is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), the Board of Directors of the North Carolina APSAC chapter, the North Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Child Abuse and Neglect, the North Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities, and the Society of Developmental Pediatrics. She holds additional faculty positions at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and is a Duke University affiliate.