Peter Cooperrider, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed an internship and residency at the Cleveland Clinic specializing in dermatology. He has been in private practice as a Board Certified dermatologist in Kirkland, Washington since 1977. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Since 1993, Dr. Cooperrider has had an intense interest in dermatologic laser surgery, and received early training in this area at Harvard and Indiana University courses, as well as at the American Academy of Dermatology in Washington, DC, and with private practice physicians in California. In early 1994 he introduced the Pacific Northwest to in-office high energy pulsed laser skin resurfacing, and now many doctors are performing it. Not content to develop just one technique, his knowledge and experience has grown in every aspect of cosmetic laser surgery including treatment of wrinkles, scars, spider veins, birthmarks, brown spots, tattoos, and hair removal. Most recently he has concentrated on new, comfortable, "no down time" methods of wrinkle treatment and skin rejuvenation.

After starting as a pioneer and helping to develop many of these treatments, Dr. Cooperrider has lectured about lasers on five continents (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa) and taught several doctors from South America in his office, leaving only Antarctica untouched by his influence! (He says that if he is invited there, he will go.) High tech medicine has enabled him to combine his two passions, technology and patient care, into a dynamic practice unique in the Northwest. Laser physicists and computer programmers, as well as companies developing new dermatology treatments consult him.

In order to have patients with dermatology problems seen in a timely manner, he has adopted an approach similar to a university, in which he trains technicians, RNs, Medical Assistants, and Estheticians in the use of many of the cosmetic procedures utilized at the Laser Treatment Centers. He also utilizes Certified Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners, known as mid-level providers, in the science and skills of dermatology and laser techniques, and is readily available when paged to consult in any aspect of patient care. He has a team of 25 members whose goal is to see that patients are taken care of in a way that makes them want to refer their best friends to our care. It is an exciting time to be sharing this adventure. That's why one of Dr. Cooperrider's comments to his staff has been "Is it Friday already?!!"