Dr. Copeland-Halperin is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and American Board of Surgery. Dr. Copeland-Halperin completed her training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the prestigious Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where she was exposed to the full breadth of plastic surgery, including reconstruction after trauma and cancer, aesthetic and cosmetic surgery, wound healing and correction of congenital deformities. She then completed advanced training in microsurgery and breast reconstruction at the world-renowned Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Copeland-Halperin is also board-certified in general surgery, having completed her general surgery residency at the Inova Fairfax Medical Center, a large tertiary care hospital in Northern Virginia, where she became Chief Resident for Quality and Safety and served on several hospital committees. She engaged in research on patient safety and quality outcomes in both general and plastic surgery and won awards for research and teaching.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Copeland-Halperin was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and attended the Horace Mann School. She studied at Williams College, where she earned her baccalaureate degree in Art History and played for the softball team. During college, Dr. Copeland-Halperin was selected to join the Humanities and Medicine program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, an early acceptance program designed to attract and foster humanistic medical students.
In her spare time, Dr. Copeland-Halperin enjoys traveling, hiking, cooking, baking, and spending time with her dog and family.