Michael Cooney, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and founding physician of West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Palm Beach Orthopaedic Institute, died Oct. 28, according to an obituary published in The Palm Beach Post.
Dr. Cooney focused his career on orthopedic surgery and sports medicine and was also known as a skilled trauma surgeon. Colleagues and patients knew him for spending unhurried time with each patient, according to the obituary.
A Palm Beach County native, Dr. Cooney was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach. He earned his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and was an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame (Ind.).
His family established the Cooney Memorial Scholarship at Notre Dame to help Palm Beach County students attend the university.
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