She serves as a clinical research manager in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.She is a member of the Surgical Residency Redesign Faculty Team, which in 2013 was awarded a five-year grant aimed at improving residency training, efficiency, evaluation and business practice modules, ultimately with an eye toward decreasing the time necessary to complete training. She and her team developed an online tool that residents can use for immediate self-assessments and to receive assessments from their attending physicians after a procedure.Ms. Cooney received her M.P.H. from the University of Illinois.