Professor of Surgery, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Engineering, Vice Chair in Surgery for Clinical Operations, Director Center for Surgical Innovation.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor , MI, United States
Dr. Cohen is Professor of Surgery, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Engineering and Vice Chair in Surgery at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Center for Surgical Innovation, the Center Initiative for Medical and Surgical XR, as well as the Medical School Path-of-Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He completed his BS in Chemical Engineering, his MD degree, and his surgical and fellowship training at Washington University in St. Louis. He is boarded by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Society of Surgical Oncology. He has run an NIH R01-funded translational oncology laboratory for the last 12 years working developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics for the treatment and staging of advanced cancers, especially endocrine tumors and melanomas. He developed several educational programs in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for medical students, residents, and faculty as well as co-founding 5 start-up companies to improve the care of surgical patients. He has mentored over 200 faculty, residents, and students on surgical innovation projects, as well as advised 15 startups who combined have raised over $100M in capital. He has delivered over 100 invited national and international talks, and written and published 116 original scientific articles, 13 book chapters, as well as the textbook “Success in Academic Surgery: Innovation and Entrepreneurship” published by Springer-NATURE. He is on the editorial board for SURGERY and has held several national surgical society leadership positions and is a founding member of the Holomedicine Association and Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Emerging Surgical Technology and Education. For his work, he was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Recognition Award by the University of Michigan in 2019 and more recently, the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize in 2021 for Applications of Mixed Reality to enhance Medical Education.
GigXR , Inc (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Research Grant or Support; HylaPharm, LLC (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Stockholder; Michigan Aerospace Corporation, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Research Grant or Support; Pathware, Inc (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member; Wideawake VR, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Independent Contractor
Friday, March 11, 2022
2:26 PM – 2:36 PM CST