Nathan Cope, M.D.

Founder / Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Cope is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Paradigm Management Services. He brings more than 30 years of career experience in catastrophic care and is a nationally recognized physiatrist and psychiatrist with numerous public speaking credits.

Dr. Cope has specialized in catastrophic head and spinal cord injury treatment, and performing and publishing seminal research on treatment and outcomes. Risk & Insurance presented him the 2009 Risk Innovator Award for healthcare and distinguished him as a Responsibility Leader.

Prior to starting Paradigm in 1991, Dr. Cope held senior medical and management positions at some of the country’s leading hospitals, including Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford University Medical Center; Chief of the Brain Injury Program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C.; Chief of Rehabilitation at Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital; and Director of the Head Injury Program at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.

He has lectured throughout the world on catastrophic head and spinal cord injury treatment, research on treatment and outcomes, and managing catastrophic care in workers’ compensation and managed care environments. He has served on many national committees, panels and boards. In 2010, he provided expert testimony to the California State Senate Health Committee on new approaches in the care and treatment of persons with brain injury.

Dr. Cope earned his BA from Stanford University and his MD from Ohio State University. He graduated with honors from both institutions.