Join the UMSON Placebo Beyond Opinions Center for "Challenges in Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials in Pain Medicine."
Monday, March 24
3 p.m.
UMSON, Room 211 or Online via Zoom
Steven P. Cohen, MD, professor and vice chair of research and pain medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, earned his medical degree from Mount Sinai, followed by an anesthesiology residency at Columbia University and a pain fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. A retired U.S. Army colonel, he deployed four times in support of operations in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
He serves as director of pain research and professor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. Cohen's groundbreaking research has been published in top medical journals, including Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and The New England Journal of Medicine. He is principal investigator on the largest NIH HEAL study and on multiple federally funded multicenter trials. Beyond his research, Cohen is the president-elect of ASRA-Pain Medicine, the largest pain organization in the U.S.