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Mary Ann Coady Weinand
Born	December 25th, 1959
Died	September 26th, 2007

Dr. Mary Ann Coady Weinand

Dr. Mary Ann Coady was a practicing psychiatrist in Tucson, Arizona for 16 years from 1991 until 2007. She is known for her incredible impact to the community of Southern Arizona as an effective psychiatrist and has become a local symbol for hope in the fight against Breast Cancer. Her story as a patient and doctor make her 4-year battle with cancer particularly unique and meaningful. In May of 2008 her old psychiatric clinic was renamed in her honor as a tribute to her legacy and impact in the Southern Arizona treatment of Psychiatry.

Early Life and Career

Mary Ann Coady was born on December 25th, 1959 in Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, 20 miles south of Miami to parents Neil J. Coady and Dolores Britenbach. She was raised in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School in 1977. Her favorite activity as a teen was riding her horse. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in Human Biology with Distinction in 1982. She had initially planned on studying to become a Nurse, but when she applied to nursing school her interviewers suggested that with her impressive record she would be more suited for Medical School. She switched her path of study to pre-medicine soon after. In college she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She went on to Medical School and completed medical school at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1986, and residency training in Adult Psychiatry in 1990. Mary Ann was board certified in both Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. She practiced psychiatry in Tucson from 1991 until June 2007 when she abruptly left work at COPE Community Services due to rapidly deteriorating health. At the age of 47, Mary Ann Coady Weinand, M.D.,passed away on September 26, 2007, peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, due to metastatic breast cancer. She had been with COPE since May 2001.

Personal Life

Due to Dr.Coady Weinand's long drawn-out battle with breast cancer, she was able to write her obituary herself a week before she died. The following was published in the Arizona Daily Star, as is written in her own words:

On May 24, 1986 at St. Mary's Cathedral in Wichita, Kansas, Dr.Coady Weinand married Dr.Martin E. Weinand.

Dr. Mary Ann Coady Weinand loved working with the mentally ill and was very devoted to her patients. Dr. Coady was most happy being with her family. She was very proud of her three children Michael, Lauren, and Megan and loved attending their swim meets and other activities. She enjoyed walking her dogs and gardening and she loved the beauty of the desert. She enjoyed her friends in her Book and Mah Jongg Groups. She learned from her three-year battle with breast cancer to “make every day count.” In addition to her three children, Dr. Coady is survived by her loving husband of 21 years, Martin E. Weinand, M.D., her mother, her father, and her mother-in-law Martha E. Bean-Weinand.

Services were held on October 3, 2007, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church.

COPE Building Dedication Ceremony

Coady Weinand could have worked in private practice — earned more money, perhaps worked with a less demanding caseload — but it was in the public mental-health sector that she found the most satisfaction. Her commitment was evident and was recognized on May 10th, 2008 with the dedication of the Mary Ann Coady Weinand, M.D., Clinic on East Lakeside Parkway in Tucson, Arizona. The clinic, where Coady Weinand worked before succumbing to metastatic breast cancer last year, provides services to adults with serious and general mental illness and substance abuse issues. It is the first time COPE had named a clinic for someone as a tribute to the benchmark Coady Weinand set for patient care. "She brought a unique perspective in regard to the seriously mentally ill in our community," said COPE medical director Dr. Adam Opbroek.

Today the Mary Ann Coady Weinand Clinic COPE Case Management Services at Weinand Clinic provides "outpatient services to assist adults with a serious mental illness or general mental health and/or substance abuse issues to achieve their highest level of functioning. Services may include individual, family and group counseling; medication services provided by a psychiatrist, nurse practitioner or nurse; treatment for clients court-ordered to participate in behavioral health services; acupuncture, case management, elder services, opioid treatment, health education and assistance with homeopathy and personal care".

References

Matas, Kimberly (May 10), "Psychiatrist was passionate about desert and people", Arizona Daily Star, pp. Life Stories {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)