Dr. Bruce A. Cohen received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago and completed his residency in Neurology at the McGaw Medical Center/Northwestern University Medical School,(now the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University), following a residency in Internal Medicine. Dr. Cohen is presently Professor of Neurology, Davee Department of Neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago,Illinois. He is an attending neurologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a consulting neurologist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and a member of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation.
Dr. Cohen co-founded the Northwestern Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis program at Northwestern University with Dr. James Sliwa from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in 1986 which combines medical and rehabilitative therapies in an integrated disease specific approach.. .He directs the Multiple sclerosis clinical program in the Department of Neurology at Northwestern, where he and his colleagues treat MS patients and engage in clinical research on disease manifestations and treatment approaches
Dr. Cohen has worked with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for many years. He is a member and current chair of the Clinical Care Committee (2006-2009), and a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the National MS Society, New York. He is also a member and past chair of the Professional Advisory Committee of the National MS Society, Chicago and Greater Illinois Chapter.
Dr Cohen has also been active in clinical research on Neurological complications of AIDS since 1986. He is an investigator in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), the Neurological AIDS Research Consortium where he directs the Northwestern University site, and the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group where he is past chair of the Neurology subcommittee (2004-2005), and a member of the Neurology leadership committee .
Dr. Cohen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American College of Physicians, and the American Heart Association. He is an elected member of the American Neurological Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Cohen's areas of interest are multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating disorders, and the neurological complications of AIDS. He has published in numerous neurological and medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, Annals of Neurology, and Archives of Neurology, and has contributed to numerous texts. |
Bruce A. Cohen, MD