About me
Alexis Benavidez Reedy-Cooper, MD MPH, attended Swarthmore College near Philadelphia and graduated with a B.S. in Engineering Science. After college, she obtained her MPH at Emory University. In Atlanta, she participated in public health research into pediatric HIV with the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Reedy-Cooper then attended medical school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, a program affiliated with Case Western Reserve University. There, she discovered her love of family medicine and continued her research, spending a year studying medication reconciliation in primary care. Dr. Reedy-Cooper completed family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital, where she developed an interest in women's health, addiction medicine and the care of complex, underserved patients. In 2015, she started working in medical education at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. She started working in undergraduate medical education, and then moved on to graduate medical education. In 2020, took a position as the Residency Program Director at Penn State Health St. Joseph in Reading, PA, where she has worked on creating a supportive environment for training the next generation of family medicine physicians to lead, teach and thrive in practice.
