Education:
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
Brandeis University. Waltham Massachusetts:
B.A. 1991 (Politics, Cum Laude, Distinction in Research)
MEDICAL EDUCATION:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine. New York, New York:
M.D. 1997
RESIDENCY:
Rush University/ Cook County Integrated
Surgical Residency. Chicago, Illinois: 1997-2004
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP:
Loyola University Medical Center
Department of Surgery
Burn and Shock Trauma Institute. Maywood, Illinois:
1999-2001
FELLOWSHIP:
University of California San Francisco
Department of Surgery
Trauma / Critical Care.
San Francisco, California:
2004-2006
CURRENT POSITION:
Professor in Residence
Associate Trauma Medical Director
Department of Surgery
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California
Bio:
Dr. Cohen has a strong history in the study of coagulation and inflammatory perturbations after injury and shock and is uniquely positioned to provide this expertise towards the completion of sampling, assays and analysis as detailed in the parent application. He has extensive experience in the functional study of coagulation and inflammatory biomarkers after severe brain injury. Specifically his group generated some of the early evidence for the presence of trauma induced coagulopathy. In addition to being a basic science and translational investigator he is also a busy clinician working as a trauma and acute care surgeon and intensivist at San Francisco General Hospital where he is the Associate Trauma Medical Director. His interest in the crosstalk between injury, inflammatory and coagulation biomarkers and infection and his dual role as a clinical/basic scientist and active clinical trauma surgeon and make him ideally suited for this project.