Mitchell J.M. Cohen, MD
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Director, Pain Medicine Program
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Cohen

833 Chestnut Street, Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-6592
(215) 503-2853 (fax)

Medical School
The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1984)

Residency
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (1988)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Subspecialty Certification in Pain Medicine
American Board of Pain Medicine

University Appointment
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Diagnosis and Treatment of chronic and neuropathic pain, quality of life in chronic pain, role of opioids in treatment of chronic pain, sleep disorders and addiction in chronic pain, ethical decision-making in chronic pain management, attitudinal and cultural barriers to treatment of chronic pain, undergraduate and graduate medical education; Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Functional Restoration in Chronic Pain, Treatment of Neuropathic Pain, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders

Publications

1. Editorial leadership of academic psychiatry
2. Identity transformation in medical students (The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2009) 69, (43-52) DOI: 10.1057/ajp.2008.38)
3. Identity transformation in medical students
4. Sleep as a Marker in the Effective Management of Chronic Osteoarthritis Pain with Opioid Analgesics
5. Cortical activation during foot movements: II Effect of movement rate and side
6. Cortical activation during executed, imagined, and observed foot movements
7. Effects of motor imagery training after chronic, complete spinal cord injury
8. Brain motor system function after chronic, complete spinal cord injury
9. Brain activation during execution and motor imagery of novel and skilled sequential hand movements
10. Cerebral and cerebellar sensorimotor plasticity following motor imagery-based mental practice of a sequential movement
11. An fMRI investigation of hand representation in paraplegic humans
12. Ethical perspectives: Opioid treatment of chronic pain in the context of addiction
13. Enoxaparin is superior to unfractionated heparin for preventing clinical events at 1-year follow-up of TIMI 11B and ESSENCE
14. Somatotopy of the motor cortex after long-term spinal cord injury or amputation
15. The role of low-molecular-weight heparins in the management of unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
16. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: Development and preliminary psychometric data
17. Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration: A cross-cultural study of male and female physicians and nurses in the United States and Mexico
18. Calming the plaque to delay intervention for 24 hours in acute coronary syndromes.
19. Event-related potentials as a function of movement parameter variations during motor imagery and isometric action
20. Sleep Disturbance and Nonmalignant Chronic Pain: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature

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