Steve Cohen
Clinical advisory board
Biotechnology
Centrexion Therapeutics
United States of America
Biography
Steven Cohen, M.D., is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and the director of the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center, Medical Education and Quality Improvement Pain Management Division at Johns Hopkins. He also acts as director of pain research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Steven’s major contributions to pain research include the development of an FDA approved technique for treating sacroiliac joint pain (lateral branch radiofrequency denervation), inventing the intravenous ketamine test to help guide treatment in patients with chronic pain and performing the first studies evaluating the epidural administration of biological agents for pain. In 2014, Steven was listed as one of the top 10 experts in the world for back pain based on quantitative analysis of publications. In addition to his academic work, Steven is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army. He serves as the Reserve Liaison to the Pain Management Consultants to the U.S. Army and Navy Surgeons General, and previously served as an inaugural member of the U.S. Army Medical Advisory Board. His research was instrumental in the passing of the Military Pain Care Act of 2008. Steven received his medical degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed an anesthesiology residency at Columbia University and a pain management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Research Interest
His research interests are:anesthesiology, pain management
