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| Misha Ruth Cohen |
Email: misha.cohen@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 864-7234
Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Research and Education Chairperson of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and Assistant Researcher for Integrative Medicine at the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging, all in San Francisco. She has been practicing and studying Asian Medicine for 30 years. For more than twenty years, Dr. Cohen has developed treatment protocols for people with HIV/AIDS. She was a member of the Ad Hoc Sub-panel on Alternative and Complementary Therapy Research of the NIH Office of AIDS Research and in 1996 was selected by POZ Magazine as one of 50 top AIDS researchers.
After attending Oberlin College, Misha Cohen was trained in acupuncture at Lincoln Hospital's Detox Program in the South Bronx under the auspices of the Quebec School of Acupuncture. After moving to California, she continued her studies in Chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She received her doctorate in gynecology from SFCAOM in 1987.
Dr. Cohen is recognized internationally as a senior teacher and leading expert in Chinese traditional medicine. She was invited several times by the Chinese government to present her programs, and her articles on HIV/AIDS were officially translated for use in China. She has trained Chinese medicine practitioners, including medical doctors, in Europe and the US in gynecology, HIV, hepatitis, and other subjects. She regularly attends and presents at international AIDS, hepatitis and cancer symposiums, as well as many Chinese medicine and lay conferences.
Dr. Cohen is currently a principal investigator on HIV-related and cancer clinical research studies at UCSF and Quan Yin Healing Arts Center. She participates as an investigator on University of California research teams. At the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is a consultant in a NCI funded study of the use traditional Chinese medicine in anal neoplasia. She has been a consultant and/or investigator in several UCSF-sponsored Chinese medicine clinical and translational studies in HIV/AIDS, anal dysplasia, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and nausea in chemotherapy. She is also an investigator in several proposed studies at UCSF.
The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness (Putnam Perigee 1996, iUniverse, 2006), The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to Living Well with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions (Henry Holt, 1998), and The Hepatitis C Help Book (St. Martin’s Press, 2000,2001 and 2007).
2007 Dibble S, Luce J, Cooper B, Israel J, Cohen M, Nussey B, Acupressure for Chemotherapy Induced Nausea & Vomiting: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Oncology Nursing Forum, July 2007
2007 Wieser F, Cohen M, Gaeddert A, Yu J, Burks-Wicks C, Berg Sand Taylor R, Evolution of medical treatment for endometriosis: back to the roots?, Human Reproduction Update, June 16, 2007, 1-13
2005 Wieser F, Burke-Wicks C, Cohen M, Fallbacher J, Taylor R, "A Western primer of Chinese herbal therapy in endometriosis and infertility", Women's Health.
2001 Cohen M, chapter entitled "Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for Pain Management of HIV/AIDS" in Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, 6th Edition, CRC Press, 2001.
2001 Cohen M, chapter entitled "Herbal and CAM Therapies for Liver Disease: Focus on Chinese Traditional Medicine in HCV", in Robert Gish, guest editor, Clinics in Liver Disease: Current and Future Treatment Therapies for Liver Disease, 5(2), W. B. Saunders, May.
1999 Cohen M, Mitchell T, Bachetti P, Child C, Crawford S, Gaeddert A, Abrams D, "Use of a Chinese Herbal Medicine for treatment of HIV-Associated Pathogen-Negative Diarrhea" Integrative Medicine, 2(2/3), 79-84.
1999 Weber R, Christen L, Loy M, Schaller S, Christen S, Joyce C, Ledermann U, Ledergerber B, Cone R, Lüthy R, Cohen M, "Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Chinese Herb Therapy for HIV-1 - Infected Individuals" Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes", 22(1), 56-64.
1996 Burack J, Cohen M, Hahn J, Abrams D. Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Chinese Herbal Treatment for HIV-Associated Symptoms, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology. 12(4): 386-93, August.
1972 Berry FH & Cohen, Synopsis of the species of Trachurus (Pisces, Carangidae). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 35, 177-211.
2005 Wieser, F, Burke-Wicks, C, Cohen, M, Fallbacher, J, Taylor, R. A Western primer of Chinese herbal therapy in endometriosis and infertility, Women’s Health. 2005.
2005 F. Wieser, C. Burks-Wicks, JL Vigne, M. Cohen, A. Gaeddert, R. Taylor, "An herbal remedy inhibits the expression of the chemokine regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted in endometriotic cells" World Conference of Endometriosis, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2005 F. Wieser, C. Burks-Wicks, JL Vigne, M. Cohen, A. Gaeddert, R. Taylor, "Extracts from a traditional Chinese herbal remedy inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis in human endometrial and endometriosis cells" American Society for Reproductive Medicine Meeting, Quebec, Canada.
2005 Dibble S, Israel J, Cohen M, Luce J “Treating Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea With Acupressure” Oncology Nursing Society Conference.
2004 Fritz Wieser, C. Burks-Wick, M. Cohen, J-L. Vigne, R. Taylor, Extracts from a Traditional Chinese Herbal Remedy Inhibit Proliferation, 11th Annual Society for Acupuncture Research Symposium, Poster presentation (oral presentation by Fritz Wieser), October.
2001 Carla Wilson, M. Cohen, H. Wilson, Tenderloin Acupuncture Project (Or Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?): Field-based Data Gathering, Poster (oral) presentation, October.
2001 Barbara Klencke, N. Jay, M.R. Cohen, Traditional Chinese Medicine for Anal Dysplasia: Discussion of the Methodology, 8th Annual Symposium of the Society for Acupuncture Research, Abstract book and oral presentation (by Misha Cohen), October.
2000 Misha Cohen, T. Mitchell, P. Bachetti, C. Child, S. Crawford, A. Gaeddert, D. Abrams, Successful Use of a Chinese Herbal Medicine for Treatment of HIV Associated Pathogen-Negative Diarrhea, Poster (oral) presentation # ThPpB1440, XIIIth International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa.
1995 Cohen, M. The Spleen and Stomach in HIV Disease, The Journal of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. 2(2), 1995.
1990 Cohen, M. Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Immuno-deficiency: Diagnosis and Treatment, American Journal of Acupuncture. 18(2): 111-122.
1989 “Paths to Wholeness in HIV Infection: A Comprehensive Approach” in AIDS, Immunity and Chinese Medicine, Enger, B and Long, E, eds, Proceedings of the 9th Annual OHAI Symposium, Oriental Arts Institute, Long Beach, CA, ISBN: 0941942287.
1986 Cohen, M. AIDS, Acupuncture and Natural Healing, Pacific Journal of Oriental Medicine. 3(2), Fall 1986.
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