Administrative Assistant
Johns Hopkins, Maryland
Dr. Steven P. Cohen is Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is also Chief of Pain Medicine and Director of Pain Operations at Johns Hopkins and Director of Pain Research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Dr. Cohen has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in journals such as Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, CMAJ, Anesthesiology, Pain and New England Journal of Medicine, Cecil Textbook of Medicine, and Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Among his major contributions is the development of an FDA-approved denervation technique for treating sacroiliac joint pain, helping set up the first pain clinic in a war zone, inventing the IV ketamine test, performing the first studies evaluating the epidural administration of biological agents for pain, serving as Senior Investigator on the congressionally-mandated study evaluating compounded topical creams for chronic pain and serving as Principal Investigator on the largest NIH-HEAL grant involving over 2-dozen sites. He has served as Chair on international committees developing guidelines on ketamine for acute and chronic pain management, lumbar and cervical facet joint guidelines, and pain management during COVID. His work was instrumental in the passage of the 2008 Military Pain Care Act. In the past few years, ExpertScape listed Dr. Cohen as the #1 or #2 leading pain expert in the world based on a complex formula that includes the number and quality of publications and the number of citations. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Cohen is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
9:25 AM – 9:55 AM