David E. Cohen, MD, PhD

Dr. Cohen received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1987 and that same year also received his PhD in Physiology and Biophysics at Harvard University. He then served as a resident in Internal Medicine, and as a Clinical and Research fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Upon completion of his training, he was appointed as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.

Over the past three decades, Dr. Cohen has held senior academic and clinical leadership roles at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Weill Cornell Medical College. He most recently served as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has since moved to California and is now Chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars‑Sinai. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Cohen received ALF’s 2022 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award for his significant impact on basic and translational liver disease research. Dr. Cohen was also the recipient of the 1991 Charles Trey American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 1992 American Liver Foundation Research Prize and a 1994 American Liver Foundation Liver Scholar Award. Ten of his trainees have been the recipients of American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards and two American Liver Foundation Student Research Fellowship Awards.