MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF
Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Mitchell J. Cohen, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director of Acute Care Research, San Francisco Injury Center
Contact Information
Campus Box 0807
San Francisco, CA 94143-0807
(415) 206-8673 Appointments
(415) 206-4622 Office
(415) 206-5484 Fax
mcohen@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu
Education
- Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, B.A., Politics, 1991
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, M.D., 1997
Residencies
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Rush University/Cook County Integrated Surgical Residency, Chicago, Illinois, 1997-2004
Fellowships
- Loyola University Medical Center,Department of Surgery, Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Maywood, Illinois,1999-2001
- UCSF, Trauma and Critical Care Fellowships, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, 2004-2006
Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery, 2005
- American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, 2005
Clinical Expertise
- Trauma Surgery
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Research Interests
- Perturbations of coagulation after trauma
Website LInks
San Francisco Injury Center
Biography
Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Assistant Professor of Surgery in Residence, joined the faculty at UCSF-SFGH in July 2006. Dr. Cohen is a Board-certified general surgeon with an additional board certification in Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Cohen received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his medical degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then completed his Residency at Rush University/Cook County Integrated in 1994. He then completed a Research Fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center in the Department of Surgery, Burn and Shock Trauma Institute in 2001 and a Fellowship in Trauma and Critical Care UCSF-SFGH from 2004-2006.
Dr. Cohen has an active basic science research lab where he studies coagulation and inflammation perturbations after trauma. In addition he is actively involved in the CDC San Francisco Injury Center with projects related to inflammatory lung injury and monitoring of resuscitation and coagulation after injury. Dr. Cohen was recently awarded a fellowship award in Hemostasis and Resuscitation from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Along with his clinical and basic science translational research, Dr. Cohen has a keen interest in in silico and informatic modeling of biological systems and patient physiology. These interests have led to work with collaborators at UCSF and UC Berkeley as well as the Intel Corporation.
Dr. Cohen currently is the Acute Care Director for the CDC San Francisco Injury Center. He continues to have a busy clinical practice and is one of the most productive research physicians at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital.
Selected Publications
- Cohen MJ, Shankar R, Stevenson J, Fernandez R, Gamelli RL, Jones SB: Bone Marrow Norepinephrine Mediates Development of Functionally Different Macrophages Following Thermal Injury and Sepsis. Ann Surgery 2004 Jul (1) 132-41.
- Brohi K, Cohen MJ, Ganter MT, Matthay MA, Mackersie RC, Pittet JF: The Pathogenetic and Prognostic Significance of The Protein C Pathway in Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy. Ann Surg 2007 May; 245 (5): 812-8.
- Cohen MJ, Shankar R, Carroll C, Li-ke H, Gamelli R, Jones S, Kuzhali M: Severity of Burn Injury and Sepsis Determines the Cytokine Responses of Bone Marrow Progenitor Derived Macrophages. J Trauma 2007 Apr; 62 (4): 858-67.
- Cohen MJ, Brohi K, Ganter M, Grush A, Mackersie RC, Manley, GT, Pittet JF:
Early Coagulopathy After Traumatic Brain Injury: The Role of Hypoperfusion and The Protein C Pathway. J Trauma 2007 Dec; 63 (6) 1254-63. - Ganter MT, Cohen MJ*, Brohi K, Chesebro BB, Staudenmayer K, Rahn P, Christaans S, Bir N, Pittet JF: Angiopoietin-2 Marker and Mediator of Endothelial Activation with Prognostic Significance Early after Trauma. Ann Surg (2008 In press) *Co-First Author.