Dr. Maria Angelica Cantu-Cooper is a fellowship-trained, board-certified internal medicine and geriatric medicine specialist and serves as the center medical director for Conviva Westover Hills. Dr. Cantu-Cooper completed an internal medicine residency and fellowships in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. She earned a combined Bachelor of Science and M.D., summa cum laude, from UTPA Premedical Honors College and Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Cantu-Cooper is a Leadership Alliance Mentor for underrepresented undergraduate scholars interested in professional research or medical careers. Before joining Conviva, Dr. Cantu-Cooper worked as a geriatric inpatient medical director, providing expert consultations to older adults admitted to the hospital, and served on the American Board of Internal Medicine Geriatric Medicine Certification Task Force. She chose geriatrics because of the warm place in her heart for seniors. Dr. Cantu-Cooper believes listening to her patients is vital to improving their quality of life and health. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, the outdoors, and creating family memories.