Physician :: Richard Cohen, MD

Physician Profile

Richard Cohen, MD

Academic Appointment:

Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA

Medical School:

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD (1976)

Residency:

Boston Medical Center, Boston MA (1978)

Post Residency:

Fellowship in Vascular Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston MA (1980)

Board Certification:

Internal Medicine

Special Interest(s):

Vascular Medicine

Bio:

A professor of medicine and of physiology, he is the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor of Medicine, Director of the Vascular Biology Unit, member of the Vascular Medicine Section, and the Co-principal Investigator of the Boston University Cardiovascular Proteomics Center. He is a former AHA Clinician Investigator and AHA Established Investigator. Past president of the American Federation for Medical Research and Board of Trustees of the American Federation for Medical Research Foundation, which he founded during his tenure as an officer of the Society. Dr. Cohen is distinguished by his elections to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians, and as a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Dr. Cohen is a past member of the NIH Experimental Cardiovascular Study Section and currently serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several NIH review groups. The research in the Vascular Biology Unit which Dr. Cohen directs involves the effect of vascular diseases on the function of arteries with special emphasis on the effect of disease on endothelium-derived nitric oxide and its signaling mechanisms within vascular cells. The role of oxidative post-translational protein modifications on proteins including the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase, sirtuin-1, and p21ras in cell signaling and disease are current interests.